1988 in art

Events from the year 1988 in art.

Events

Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl^{[citation needed]}
Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and moved inside the Palazzo Vecchio.^{[citation needed]}
David Hockney begins a series of paintings at his seaside home in Malibu, California.^[1]

July – Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
18 September until 24 September - White Room: Bill Albertini at White Columns in New York City.^[2]

19 January – Cesare Brandi, art critic, historian, and specialist in conservation-restoration theory (b. 1906).
31 January – Nedeljko Gvozdenović, a world-renowned Serbian painter (b. 1902).
3 February – Ronald Bladen, American sculptor (b. 1918).
19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b. 1902).
28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b. 1934).
31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b. 1924).
2 April – E. Chambré Hardman, Irish-born British photographer (b. 1898).
3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907).
17 April
- Toni Frissell, American photographer (b. 1907]).
- Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b. 1900).
26 April – Guy Boyd, Australian potter and figurative sculptor (b. 1923)
4 May – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (b. 1901).
6 May – Constantino Nivola, Italian sculptor (b. 1911)
16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b. 1924).^[3]
16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b. 1956).

12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b. 1910).
24 July – Mira Schendel, Swiss-born Brazilian modernist artist and poet (b. 1919).
12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter, suicide (b. 1960).
21 August – Ray Eames, American artist and architect (b. 1912).
26 September – Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (b. 1913).
29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912).
28 October – Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b. 1910)^[4]
12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b. 1900).
25 November – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.])^[5]
2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904).
30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b. 1904).^[6]

↑ Gayford, Martin (2021). Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 132–3. ISBN 978-0-500-09436-5.
↑ "White Room: Bill Albertini". White Columns. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
↑ Douglas Martin (1993). Charles Keeping: An Illustrator's Life. Julia MacRae Books. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-85681-062-3.
↑ The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1988. p. 1161.
↑ Who was who in America. Marquis-Who's Who. 1989. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8379-0217-3.
↑ Brenson, M. Isamu Noguchi, the Sculptor, Dies at 84. The New York Times 31 December 1988.