Galería OMR commercial contemporary art gallery founded in Mexico City.
Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson – Chandler Coventry
Richard Beyer's Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain installed in Oregon Zoo, Portland.
Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of pink fabric.
Completion of Richard Hamilton's diptych The Citizen.
Cast of John Seward Johnson II's painted bronze Allow Me installed in Portland, Oregon.
Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle's kinetic artwork, the Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Milo Moiré, Swiss performance artist
Jérémie Iordanoff, French abstract artist
24 February – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
3 March – Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
21 May – Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
8 June – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912).
14 July – Philip Zec, British editorial cartoonist (b. 1909).
18 August – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
28 October – Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
5 November – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
17 November – John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
2 December – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (b.1922).
20 December – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (b.1904).
23 December – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
25 December – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).
Michael Cardew, English studio potter (b.1901).
Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).
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