1967 in art
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- May 14 – Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix by Elisabeth Frink.[1]
- September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.[2]
- December 17 – 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum: The people of Basel (Switzerland) vote to purchase two paintings by Picasso to retain them in the Kunstmuseum Basel.[3]
- John Willett publishes Art in a City,[4] a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool.
- Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
- The Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is established in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan, as a permanent home for The Hiroshima Panels.
Exhibitions
- February 28–May 7 – New Documents photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York curated by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
- September–October – Im Spazio ("The Space of Thoughts") at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant and introducing Arte Povera.
Works
- Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 (photograph)
- Francis Bacon – Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
- Sargis Baghdasaryan – We Are Our Mountains (sculpture)
- Max Bill – Rhythm in Space (sculpture)
- Peter Blake with Jann Haworth – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (collage for record album cover)
- Sir Anthony Caro - Prairie (sculpture)[5]
- Salvador Dalí – Tuna Fishing
- Edward Delaney – Wolfe Tone (bronze statue)
- Jose de Rivera – Infinity (sculpture)
- Dušan Džamonja – Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina
- Milton Glaser – Dylan (poster)
- Barbara Hepworth – Two Forms (Orkney) (slate sculpture)
- Eila Hiltunen – Sibelius Monument (Helsinki)
- David Hockney – A Bigger Splash
- Richard Long – A Line Made by Walking (land art)
- Timothy Malone – Corten Steel Sculpture
- Joan Miró – The Caress of a Bird (sculpture)
- Henry Moore – sculptures
- Barnett Newman
- Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed)
- Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal)
- Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)
- Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso (sculpture)
- Michelangelo Pistoletto – Venus of the Rags, (Assemblage - first version)[6]
- Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding
- Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #20: Die
- Norman Rockwell – Russian Schoolroom
- Kenneth Snelson – Six Number Two (sculpture)
- Mark di Suvero – Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) (sculpture)
- Yevgeny Vuchetich – The Motherland Calls (sculpture)
- Andy Warhol
- Big Electric Chair
- I, a Man (film)
- Steve Weaver – John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce
- James Wines – Three Bronze Discs (sculpture)
- David Wynne – Bird Fountains (Ambassador College, Pasadena, California)
Births
- January 1 – Spencer Tunick, American photographer
- March 4 – Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born film director, photographer and visual artist
- March 10 – Tim Pitsiulak, Inuk artist
- December 15 – David Černý, sculptor associated with Prague
- date unknown
- Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic installation artist
- Andy Taylor, Australian painter and printmaker
