- 2008 in art
Events
Exhibitions
Awards
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Caldecott Medal -Brian Selznick , "The Invention of Hugo Cabret "
*Doug Moran National Portrait Prize - Fiona Lowry
* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts -Mona Hatoum
*Turner Prize nominees -Runa Islam ,Mark Leckey ,Goshka Macuga andCathy Wilkes .Deaths
January to March
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3 January -Joan Gillchrest , 89, British painter.
*2 February -Roger Testu , French cartoonist (b.1913).
*3 March -William Brice , American painter and teacher (b.1921).
*11 March -Dave Stevens , Americanillustrator andcomics artist (b.1955).
*19 March -Hugo Claus , Belgiannovelist ,poet ,playwright , painter andfilm director (b.1929).
*28 March -Michael Podro , English art historian (b.1931).
*29 March -Angus Fairhurst , Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (b.1966).
*29 March -Josef Mikl ,Austria n abstract painter (b.1929).April to June
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3 April -Vladimír Preclík , Czech writer and sculptor (b.1929).
*9 April -Burt Glinn , American photographer (b.1925).
*14 April -Ollie Johnston , American animator (b.1912).
*16 April -Joseph Solman , American painter (b.1909).
*23 April -Paul Wonner , American painter (b.1920).
*25 April -Enrico Donati , Italian- born AmericanSurrealist painter and sculptor (b.1909).
*10 May - Herbert Albert, 82, British painter and etcher.
*12 May -Robert Rauschenberg , American artist (b.1925).
*15 May -Will Elder , Americanillustrator andcomic book artist (b.1921).
*18 May -Pietro Cascella , Italian painter and sculptor (b.1921).
*21 May -Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos , Portuguese artist and professor (b.1931).
*23 May -Cornell Capa , Hungarian-Americanphotographer and photo curator (b.1918).
*28 May -Beryl Cook , English painter (b.1926).
*1 June -Alton Kelley , American poster and album artist (b.1940).
*1 June - Yves Saint Laurent, Frenchfashion design er (b.1936).
*18 June -Tasha Tudor , American illustrator and author ofchildren's book s (b.1915).July to December
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7 July -Bruce Conner , Americanartist in film, drawing,sculpture ,painting ,collage andphotography (b.1933).
*7 July -Fred Yates , Englishartist (b.1922).
*1 August -Pauline Baynes , English book illustrator (b.1922).
*12 August -Michael Baxandall , Welsh art historian (b.1933).
*18 August -Manny Farber , American painter andfilm critic (b.1917).
*23 August - John Russell,British American art critic (b.1919).
*3 September - Derek Davis, English painter and potter (b.1926).
*4 September -Alain Jacquet , French artist (b.1939).
*1 October -Boris Efimov , Russian cartoonist and propaganda artist (b.1900).
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