1967 in art

Events

• May 14 – Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix by Elisabeth Frink.
• September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.
• December 17 – 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum: The people of Basel vote to purchase two paintings by Picasso to retain them in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
• John Willett publishes Art in a City, a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool.
• Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
• The Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is established in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan, as a permanent home for The Hiroshima Panels.

Exhibitions

• February 28-May 7 – New Documents photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York curated by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
• September-October – Im Spazio at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant and introducing Arte Povera.

Works

• Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967
• Francis Bacon – Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
• Sargis Baghdasaryan – We Are Our Mountains
• Max Bill – Rhythm in Space
• Peter Blake with Jann Haworth – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Sir Anthony Caro - Prairie
• Salvador Dalí – Tuna Fishing
• Edward Delaney – Wolfe Tone
• Jose de Rivera – Infinity
• Dušan Džamonja – Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina
• Milton Glaser – Dylan
• Barbara Hepworth – Two Forms
• Eila Hiltunen – Sibelius Monument (Helsinki)
• David Hockney – A Bigger Splash
• Richard Long – A Line Made by Walking
• Timothy Malone – Corten Steel Sculpture
• Joan Miró – The Caress of a Bird
• Henry Moore – sculptures
• * Nuclear Energy
• * Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
• Barnett Newman
• * Broken Obelisk
• * Voice of Fire
• Isamu Noguchi – Sinai
• Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso
• Michelangelo Pistoletto –
• Muretto di straci
• Venus of the Rags,
• Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding
• Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #20: Die
• Norman Rockwell – Russian Schoolroom
• Kenneth Snelson – Six Number Two
• Mark di Suvero – Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)
• Yevgeny Vuchetich – The Motherland Calls
• Andy Warhol
• * Big Electric Chair
• * I, a Man
• Steve Weaver – John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce
• James Wines – Three Bronze Discs
• David Wynne – ''Bird Fountains''

Births

• January 1 – Spencer Tunick, American photographer
• March 4 – Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born film director, photographer and visual artist
• March 10 – Tim Pitsiulak, Inuk artist
• December 15 – David Černý, sculptor associated with Praguedate unknown
• * Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic installation artist
• * Andy Taylor, Australian painter and printmaker

Deaths

• January 8 – Josef Frank, Austrian-born Swedish architect and designer
• January 10 – Charles E. Burchfield, American landscape watercolorist
• January 15 – David Burliuk, Russian avant-garde artists
• January 28 – Ary Stillman, Russian-American representational and abstract painter
• January 31 – Oscar Fischinger, German born American animator, filmmaker and painter
• February 17 – Nancy Cox-McCormack, American portrait sculptor
• March 31 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter
• May 15
• * Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker
• * Italo Mus, Italian painter
• * Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker
• May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter
• August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter
• August 30 – Ad Reinhardt, American abstract painter
• September 20 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born French painter
• November 21 – Vladimir Lebedev, Russian painter and graphic artist
• November 22 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter
• December 12 – Mac Raboy, American illustrator
• December 26 – Ambrose McCarthy Patterson, Australian painter and printmaker date unknown
• * Marguerite Huré, French stained-glass artist
• * Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter