1983 in art
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- Galería OMR commercial contemporary art gallery founded in Mexico City.
- High Museum of Art, designed by Richard Meier, opened in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Australian painter Sidney Nolan settles in Britain at Rodd Court in Herefordshire on the Welsh border near Presteigne.[1]
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson – Chandler Coventry
Works
- Richard Beyer's Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain installed in Oregon Zoo, Portland.
- Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m2) of pink fabric.[2]
- Lucian Freud - Large Interior W11 (After Watteau)[3]
- Completion of Richard Hamilton's diptych The Citizen.
- Cast of John Seward Johnson II's painted bronze Allow Me installed in Portland, Oregon.
- Marta Minujin - The Parthenon of Books.[4][5]
- Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle's kinetic artwork, the Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Births
- Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, Qatari chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority
- Jérémie Iordanoff, French abstract artist
- Milo Moiré, Swiss performance artist