1989 in art

Events

*12 June - Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.
*The Keith Haring Foundation is established.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Bryan Westwood - "Portrait of Elwyn Lynn"

Exhibitions

*"Jim Dine Drawings 1973-1987" at Minneapolis Institute of Art
*Robert Longo retrospective at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
*"Magiciens de la terre" at Centre Georges Pompidou

Works

*Yaacov Agam - "Visual Music Orchestration"

Deaths

January to June

*23 January - Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist (b.1904).
*1 February - Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).
*9 February - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and producer (b.1928).
*17 February - Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (b.1921).
*9 March - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b.1946).
*6 April - Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (b.1906).
*4 June - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b.1917).

July to December

*29 August - Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist, painter (b.1909).
*11 November - Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (b.1929).
*22 November - C. C. Beck, American cartoonist and comic book artist (b.1910).
*31 December - Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (b.1898).

Full date unknown

*Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (b.1900).