1966 in art

Events from the year [Primary Structures (1966 exhibition)|]1966 in art.

Events

May 19–September 19 – Display of prints by Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; in July it is threatened with prosecution for obscenity.
July – The Chicago Surrealist Group is founded by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont with others.
September – American pop artist Jim Dine is found guilty of exhibiting indecent works at Robert Fraser's gallery in London.
September 27 – New Whitney Museum of American Art on Madison Avenue in New York City, designed by Marcel Breuer with Hamilton P. Smith, is opened.
October 13–23 – The second New York City Armory Show 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology.
November 3/4 – 1966 flood of the Arno in Florence causes severe damage to artworks.
December 30/31 – Eight paintings are stolen from Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, but are recovered locally within a week.
The Hairy Who, a group of surrealist iconoclasts later called the Chicago Imagists, first exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. They will be the most important art movement to come out of Chicago in the 1960s.
Retrospective exhibition of Marcel Duchamp organized by Richard Hamilton at the Tate Gallery, London, the only comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work in the United Kingdom as of 2006.
Stass Paraskos Obscenity Trial: Painter Stass Paraskos is found guilty of exhibiting obscene artworks in Leeds, England.
Artist Placement Group set up in the United Kingdom.

Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum in New York City.

12 January – Rob Zombie, born Robert Cummings, American artist and musician
31 January – Christian Cardell Corbet, Canadian portrait sculptor, painter and art historian
10 March – Fernando Gaspar, Portuguese visual artist
20 April – Bio, born Wilfredo Feliciano, American graffiti artist
4 October – Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist
12 December – Lydia Zimmermann, Spanish filmmaker and video artist

Jodi Bieber, South African photographer
Jeremy Deller, English conceptual, video and installation artist, Turner Prize winner
Rankin, British photographer
George Shaw, English realist painter
Cathy Wilkes, British multimedia artist

January 6 – Jean Lurçat, French painter and designer
January 11 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss surrealist sculptor and painter
February 17 – Hans Hofmann, German American abstract expressionist painter and teacher
March 4 – Stanley Anderson, English engraver
March 30 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator
April 3 – Battista Farina, Italian car designer
April 12 – Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter
April 13 – Carlo Carrà, Italian painter
May 30 – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor
June 7 – Jean Arp, German-French-Swiss painter and sculptor
July 1 – Pauline Boty, English pop art painter
July 10 – Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor
July 29 – Edward Gordon Craig, English theatrical designer
August 2 or 3 – Tristan Klingsor, French poet, painter and musician
August 16 – Gavriil Gorelov, Russian painter
November 23 – Alvin Langdon Coburn, British pictorialist photographer
December 20 – Matvey Manizer, Russian sculptor
Duncan Phillips, American art collector and critic