1988 in art

Events from the year 1988 in art.

Events

Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl
Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and moved inside the Palazzo Vecchio.
David Hockney begins a series of paintings at his seaside home in Malibu, California.{{cite book|first=Martin|last=Gayford|title=Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=2021|isbn=978-0-500-09436-5|pages=132–3}}

July – Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
September 18 until September 24 - White Room: Bill Albertini at White Columns in New York City.{{Cite web |title=White Room: Bill Albertini |url=https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/white-room-bill-albertini/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=White Columns |language=en}}

Artists of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia – Aboriginal Memorial
Francis Bacon – Second Version of Triptych 1944
Gordon Bennett – Outsider
Wayne Chabre
Gargoyles (Eugene, Oregon)
Alan Turing
Drosophila Fly Head
Grasshopper (sculpture, Salem, Oregon)
Eldon Garnet – Little Glenn (bronze statue)
Rachel Joynt – People's Island (brass installation, Dublin)
Chris Killip – In Flagrante (photographic book)
Judith Weinshall Liberman – Holocaust Wall Hangings (first works in series)
Richard Lippold – Ex Stasis (sculpture)
Paul Matisse – Kendall Band (sound sculpture)
David K. Nelson, Jr. – Mirth & Girth
Louise Nevelson – Sky Landscape (sculpture)
Éamonn O'Doherty – Anna Livia (bronze installation, Dublin)
Fred Parhad – Ashurbanipal (bronze, San Francisco)
Zlatko Pounov and Steven Lowe – Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (San Francisco)
Paula Rego – [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rego-the-dance-t05534 The Dance]
Gerhard Richter – Betty
Susan Dorothea White – The First Supper
Christopher Wool – Apocalypse Now ("word painting")

19 January – Cesare Brandi, art critic, historian, and specialist in conservation-restoration theory (b. 1906).
31 January – Nedeljko Gvozdenović, a world-renowned Serbian painter (b. 1902).
3 February – Ronald Bladen, American sculptor (b. 1918).
19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b. 1902).
28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b. 1934).
31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b. 1924).
2 April – E. Chambré Hardman, Irish-born British photographer (b. 1898).
3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907).
17 April
Toni Frissell, American photographer (b. 1907]).
Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b. 1900).
26 April – Guy Boyd, Australian potter and figurative sculptor (b. 1923)
4 May – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (b. 1901).
6 May – Constantino Nivola, Italian sculptor (b. 1911)
16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b. 1924).{{cite book|author=Douglas Martin|title=Charles Keeping: An Illustrator's Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkFLAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Julia MacRae Books|isbn=978-1-85681-062-3|page=202}}
16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b. 1956).

12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b. 1910).
24 July – Mira Schendel, Swiss-born Brazilian modernist artist and poet (b. 1919).
12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter, suicide (b. 1960).
21 August – Ray Eames, American artist and architect (b. 1912).
26 September – Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (b. 1913).
29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912).
28 October – Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b. 1910){{cite book|title=The New York Times Biographical Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_j4oAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=New York Times & Arno Press|page=1161}}
12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b. 1900).
25 November – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.]){{cite book|title=Who was who in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=23kYAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Marquis-Who's Who|isbn=978-0-8379-0217-3|page=73}}
2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904).
30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b. 1904).Brenson, M. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DC1531F932A05751C1A96E948260&pagewanted=all Isamu Noguchi, the Sculptor, Dies at 84]. The New York Times December 31, 1988.