1975 in art

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Events from the year 1975 in art.

10 June – Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is opened.
14 September – Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.^[1]
The artists' community Kollektiv Herzogstrasse is founded by Heimrad Prem and others.
The Brotherhood of Ruralists established at Wellow, Somerset, England.
Mona Hatoum leaves her native Lebanon to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
Four Ronnie Landfield paintings from the collection of Philip Johnson are installed at The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City, on the wall which Mark Rothko was initially commissioned to create paintings for, and subsequently changed his mind. (In 1985 they are replaced by a mural.)
Malmö Konsthall, designed by Klas Anshelm, opens in Sweden for the display of contemporary art.
Center for Creative Photography archival facility created at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
An album created in 1864 by Julia Margaret Cameron for John Herschel is purchased by public subscription in Britain, one of the first recognitions of the country's heritage of photography as an art form.

Awards

Vito Acconci – Plot
Dara Birnbaum – Attack Piece
Marcel Broodthaers – Daguerre's Soup, La salle blanche
Avard Fairbanks – George Washington (bronze, Washington, D.C.)
Rose Finn-Kelcey – The Restless Image: a discrepancy between the seen position and the felt position (photograph of performance)
Elisabeth Frink – Shepherd and Sheep
Giancarlo Impiglia - Mural of "Old New York" at 99 John Street^[2]
Robert Indiana - Hexagon; Heptagon; Octagon; and Nonagon^[3]
Lee Kelly – Frank E. Beach Memorial Fountain (Portland, Oregon)
Lee Kelly and Bonnie Bronson – Leland I (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Eduardo Kingman – Unidad
Gordon Matta-Clark – Day's End, Conical Intersect^[4]
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson – Transparent Horizon

1 January – Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist.
13 June – Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director.
14 June – Chris Onstad, American writer, cartoonist and artist.
30 July – Graham Nicholls, British installation artist, activist and speaker.
1 August – Vhrsti, Czech illustrator