1969 in art
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- February 2 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- August 8 – Iain Macmillan photographs the cover picture for The Beatles' album Abbey Road in London.
- October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast for the first time on BBC Television,[1] with Terry Gilliam's animations.
- October 18 – Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (c.1609) is stolen from its frame in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Sicily; it has not been recovered as of 2020.
- November 19 – The Apollo 12 lunar module lands on the Moon with astronaut and artist Alan Bean; American artist Forrest "Frosty" Myers claims to have smuggled the art piece Moon Museum onto a leg of the module which will remain on the surface.[2]
- c. December – The music and performance art collective COUM Transmissions is formed in England by Genesis P-Orridge.
- Late – Andy Warhol, John Wilcock, and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine Interview.
- Opening of the Oakland Museum of California, designed by Kevin Roche.
Exhibitions
- January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.[3]
- December 19 - The exhibition Alvin Loving: Psintings opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City marking the frst solo exhibition given to a black artist in the institution's history.[4]
- Most of the paintings from the following year's "Lyrical Abstraction" exhibition are displayed at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.[5][6]
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke – George Johnston
- John Moores Painting Prize - Richard Hamilton and Mary Martin for "Toaster" and "Cross" (respectively)[7][8]
Works
- Kenojuak Ashevak – The Owl
- Michael Ayrton – The Arkville Minotaur
- Francis Bacon – Three Studies of Lucian Freud
- Thomas Bass – Australian Seal (bronze, Washington, D.C.)
- Edward Bawden – Victoria tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line
- Fernando Botero - Protestant Family
- Alexander Calder – La Grande Vitesse (sculpture)
- Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Coast" in Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia[9]
- Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad
- Helen Frankenthaler – Slice of Stone Itself
- Frank Frazetta – Egyptian Queen
- Milton Glaser - Speed City[10]
- Anna Hyatt Huntington - Equestrian statue of Israel Putnam at Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding, Connecticut (dedicated)
- Jess Collins - If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink[11]
- Allen Jones – Hatstand, Table and Chair (sculptures)
- Ronnie Landfield – Diamond Lake
- André Lufwa - "Batteur de tam-tam"[12]
- Joan Mitchell - Sans Neige[13]
- Kanda Nissho – Snow Farm
- Pablo Picasso- The Kiss
- Enzo Plazzotta – Baigneuse
- Jean-Paul Riopelle – La Joute (public sculptural installation, Montreal)
- Will Roberts – Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire
- Alexander Semionov – Leningrad in the Morning
- Victor Teterin – Sredne-Podjacheskaya Street in Leningrad
- Nikolai Timkov – Russian Winter
- Hans Unger – Oxford Circus and Green Park tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line
Exhibitions
- December 30 until March 1, 1970 - Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (Dan Flavin, Larry Bell, Robert Morris, Franz Erhard Walther, and Pulsa).[14]
Births
- January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
- February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician[15]
- July 11 – Abigail McLellan, British painter (d. 2009)
- October 5 – Chantal Joffe, English painter
- November 26 – Kara Walker, African American artist
- date unknown
- Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographer[16]
- Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician
- Invader, French urban artist
- Patricia Martín, Mexican curator