1968 in art

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The year 1968 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

March 5 – Musical chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto.
May 2 – Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, England, designed by Powell and Moya, is opened.
June 3 – Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol at his New York City studio, The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation.
July 17 – Release of the animated musical fantasy film Yellow Submarine in the United Kingdom, directed by George Dunning with art direction by Heinz Edelmann.
August 20 – The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Sir Roy Grounds, is opened.
September 15 – The Neue Nationalgalerie in West Berlin, Germany, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is opened.
New building for the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) in Brazil, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, is built.
Rubens' The Adoration of the Magi (1634) is installed as an altarpiece at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

June 3 - Eric White, American visual artist
July 6 – Gaspare Manos, Thai-Italian painter and sculptor
July 11 – Patrik Andiné, Swedish painter
July 23 – Paulo Henrique, Portuguese choreographer and multidisciplinary artist
August 16 – Wolfgang Tillmans, German fine-art photographer
September 17 – David Shrigley, British visual artist
December 13 – Michael Triegel, German painter
December 23 – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Puerto Rican documentary photographer
date unknown
- Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Swiss-born curator
- Nahem Shoa, British portrait painter

February 11 – Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Jewish painter and woodcut artist (born 1887)
April 26 – John Heartfield, German graphic designer (born 1891)
May 9 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (born 1894)
May 21 – Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor (born 1894)
May 28 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch Fauvist painter (born 1877)
June 17 – Cassandre, French graphic designer (born 1901)
July 2 – Sir Hans Heysen, German-born Australian watercolour painter (born 1877)
July 16 – William John Leech, Irish painter (born 1881)
August 8 – Orovida Pissarro, English painter and etcher (born 1893)^[1]
October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, influential French artist (born 1887)
November – Lee Gatch, American painter and mixed-media artist (born 1902)
November 4 – Michel Kikoine, Litvak-born French painter (born 1892)
date unknown
- William Conor, Irish painter (born 1881)
- Estella Solomons, Irish painter (born 1882)

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