Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens Jacqueline Livingston "A One Artist Gallery" in New York's Soho showing a different body of her work monthly for one year. Livingston and her gallery are placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography. (reference corrected by the artist)
Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – Peter Sculthorpe
Michael Andrews – Sax AD 832
Avigdor Arikha – Marie-Catherine
Wolf Kahn – My Barn on a Summer Night, Hirshhorn Museum
Henry Moore – The Artist's Hands I (charcoal, wax crayon and ballpoint pen)
Euan Uglow – Zagi
John Seward Johnson II – Double Check (sculpture in New York City)
Joan Miró and Joan Gardy Artigas – Dona i Ocell (tiled sculpture in Barcelona)
Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle – Fontaine des automates, Paris
Joseph Beuys presents 7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration at Documenta 7, Kassel
December 10 – Zuzana Čížková, Czech painter and sculptor
Tris Vonna-Michell, British installation artist
Approximate date – Bambi Graffiti, English graffiti artist
January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b.1905)
January 27 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (b.1905)
February 6 – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b.1894)
June 10 – Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model (b.1894)
June 29 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b.1914)
August 3 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (b.1927)
September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b.1902)
September 17 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (b.1909)
October 9 – Charles E. Brown, English aviation photographer (b.1896)
October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (b.1908)
November 3 – Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine painter and architect (b. 1889)
November 27 – Radomir Stević Ras, Serbian painter and designer (b. 1931)
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