August 29 – Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.
Eight younger British artists (Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull) are represented in the "New Aspects of British Sculpture" exhibition at the Venice Biennale which Herbert Read describes as the "Geometry of Fear". Britain also displays paintings by Graham Sutherland and Edward Wadsworth.
Louis le Brocquy's 1951 painting A Family sparks controversy in Ireland when a group of art patrons offer to present it to the Dublin Municipal Gallery and it is rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence.
Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic collection Images à la sauvette is published by Tériade in Paris.
Publication of Un Art Autre, by Michel Tapié.
Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Mr Essington Lewis, CH
Prix Puvis de Chavannes – Tristan Klingsor
Michael Andrews – A Man who Suddenly Fell Over
Francis Bacon
Figure in a landscape
Study for Crouching Nude
Salvador Dalí – Galatea of the Spheres
Dwight D. Eisenhower – Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
M. C. Escher
Gravitation
Puddle
Helen Frankenthaler – Mountains and Sea
Elisabeth Frink – Bird
Willem de Kooning – Woman I
Henri Laurens – L'Amphion (sculpture, University City of Caracas)
René Magritte – The Listening Room
Henri Matisse – cutouts
series of Blue Nudes, e.g., Blue Nude I, Blue Nude II
Black Leaf on Green Background
La Négresse
The Sorrows of the King
John Minton – The Death of Nelson
Henry Moore – King and Queen (bronze)
Jackson Pollock – Blue Poles
Kay Sage – On the Contrary
David Smith – Agricola I (sculpture)
Dorothea Tanning – The Friend's Room
Lovejoy Columns, Portland, Oregon, painted by Tom Stefopoulos
September 25 – November 9 – Jacob Epstein retrospective, Tate Gallery, London
Exhibition of forgeries, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
March 22 – Bernard Pras, French plastics technician
May 23 – Martin Parr, English documentary colour photographer
August 13 – Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002)
October 20 – Derek Ridgers, English portrait and street culture photographer
November 22 – Corno (Joanne Corneau), Canadian post-pop painter (d. 2016)
date unknown – Graham Forsythe, Northern Irish/Canadian painter
March 3 – Howard Chandler Christy, painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
May 5 – Alberto Savinio, writer and painter (b. 1891)
August 16 – Lydia Field Emmet, painter (b. 1866)
date unknown:
Arthur Beecher Carles, Modernist painter (b. 1882)
William Lee Hankey, painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
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