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Events
- Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".
- documenta 6 takes place.
- Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists' Space in New York.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor - Robert Klippel
Exhibitions
- Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
- Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Works
- Donald Judd - Untitled (Meter Box)
- Marina Abramovic and Ulay - Expansion in Space
- Lucian Freud - Naked Man with Rat
- Gordon Matta-Clark - Jacob's Ladder
- Robert Morris - Williams Mirrors
- Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Stills (through 1980)
Births
- 8 February - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer.
- 16 December - Kevin Gillespie, American comic book creator and graphic artist.
Deaths
- 27 April - Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (b.1907).
- 21 July - Lee Miller, American photographer (b.1907).
- 23 August - Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
- 11 September - Augustus Dunbier, American painter (b.1888).
- 23 September - John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (b.1893).
- 20 October - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b.1909).
- 5 November - René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b.1926).
- 21 December - Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (b.1889).
Full date unknown
- Walter Pritchard, stained glass artist
- Philip Lindsey Clark, sculptor
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