January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
February 2 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast for the first time on BBC Television, with Terry Gilliam's animations.
Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine Interview.
Opening of the Oakland Museum of California.
Lyrical Abstraction exhibition debuts at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke – George Johnston
Australian Seal, Washington, D.C.
Kenojuak Ashevak – The Owl
Michael Ayrton – The Arkville Minotaur
Francis Bacon – Three Studies of Lucian Freud
Alexander Calder – La Grande Vitesse (sculpture)
Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad
Helen Frankenthaler – Slice of Stone Itself
Allen Jones – Hatstand, Table and Chair (sculptures)
Ronnie Landfield – Diamond Lake
Kanda Nissho – Snow Farm
Enzo Plazzotta – Baigneuse
Jean-Paul Riopelle – La Joute (public sculptural installation, Montreal)
Will Roberts – Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire
Alexander Semionov – Leningrad in the Morning
Victor Teterin – Sredne-Podjacheskaya street in Leningrad
Nikolai Timkov – Russian Winter
January 1 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
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Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographer
Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician
Chantal Joffe, English painter
Patricia Martín, Mexican curator
January 29 - Edward Marshall Boehm, American Expressionist sculptor (b. 1913)
March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer (b. 1898)
March 17 – Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Spanish painter (b. 1882)
May 11 – T. K. Padmini, Keralan feminist painter (b. 1940; d. in childbirth)
July 5 – Walter Gropius, German-born architect (b. 1883)
July 9 – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904)
July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker (born 1891)
September 15 - Edith Barry, US sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1883)
November 21 – Norman Lindsay, Australian sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879)
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