1998 in art
Events from the year 1998 in art.
Events
- April – Fans of Newcastle United F.C. decorate the newly erected Angel of the North sculpture with a giant replica of Alan Shearer's no. 9 shirt. Police remove the shirt after about twenty minutes.
- 3 December – 44 governments participating in the approve the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, requiring efforts to be made to restore looted art to its original owners or their heirs.
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.
Exhibitions
- 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.
Awards
- Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3
- Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle
- Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou
- Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon
- Turner Prize – Chris Ofili
Works
- Mark Calderon – Floribunda
- Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership
- Michael Condron – Martian tripod
- Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space
- Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North
- David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon
- Alexander McQueen – Joan
- Mary Miss – Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York City
- Ron Mueck – Ghost
- Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry
- Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards
- Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers
- Edwina Sandys - Eve's Apple permanently installed in Windsor, Ontario
- Piotr Uklański – The Nazis
- Rachel Whiteread – ''Water Tower''
Publications
- A hoax biography, launched on 1 April.
Deaths
- 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect
- 29 January - Karin Jonzen, British sculptor
- 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter
- 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist
- 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist
- 3 April – Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor
- 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter
- 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist
- 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist
- 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer
- 18 May – Enid Marx, English textile designer
- June – Kali, Polish-American portrait painter and Polish Resistance agent during World War II
- 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor
- 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist
- 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer
- 13 November – Claude Serre, French cartoonist
- 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II
- 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist