1968 in art

• March 5 – Musical chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto. • May 2 – Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, England, designed by Powell and Moya, is opened. • June 3 – Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol at his New York City studio, The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation. • July 17 – Release of the animated musical fantasy film Yellow Submarine in the United Kingdom, directed by George Dunning with art direction by Heinz Edelmann. • August 20 – The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Sir Roy Grounds, is opened. • September 15 – The Neue Nationalgalerie in West Berlin, Germany, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is opened. • November 7 – New building for the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) in Brazil, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, is inaugurated. • Rubens' The Adoration of the Magi (1634) is installed as an altarpiece at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. ==Awards==

• Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon – Lloyd Rees • Elaine Hamilton wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France ==Exhibitions==

• Cybernetic Serendipity - August 2 until October 20 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, United Kingdom then traveled to the United States • Eva Hesse – Chain Polymers, Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City • Ralph Hotere – Black Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand ==Works==

• William Anders – Earthrise (photograph) • Edward Bawden – Tottenham Hale and Highbury & Islington tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line • Julia Black – Walthamstow Central tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line • Alexander Calder – Gwenfritz (stabile) • Donald De Lue – The Special Warfare Memorial Statue • Paul Delvaux – The Sacrifice of Iphigenia • Mark di Suvero – Snowplow (sculpture) • Joseph Drapell – Life (sculpture, Halifax, Nova Scotia) • Tom Eckersley – Finsbury Park, King's Cross St Pancras and Euston tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line • M. C. Escher – Metamorphosis III (colored woodcut print) • Alan Fletcher – Warren Street tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line • Ángela Gurría - Señal in Mexico City, Mexico created for the occasion of the 1968 Summer Olympics • Barbara Hepworth – Two Figures (sculpture), Three Obliques (Walk In) (sculpture) • David Hockney - Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy • Marilyn Tapestry • Dani Karavan – Monument to the Negev Brigade on hill overlooking Beersheba, Israel (completed) • Eduardo Kingman – Fin de Mascarada • Joan Miró – begins series ''The navigator's hope'' • Henry Moore – Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model) • Robert Motherwell – Open #23 (loaned by Graham Gund to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) • Otto Muehl, Günter Brus and other followers of Viennese Actionism – Kunst und Revolution (performance art) • Isamu Noguchi – Octetra (concrete sculpture) • Gerhard Richter – Domplatz, Mailand ("Cathedral Square, Milan") • Monica Sjöö – God Giving Birth • Kenneth Snelson – Needle Tower • Hans Unger – Blackhorse Road and Seven Sisters tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line • David Wynne – River God Tyne and Swans in Flight (sculptures, Newcastle Civic Centre) • Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site (memorial column) ==Births==

• May 21 – Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Swiss-born curator • June 3 – Eric White, American visual artist • July 6 – Gaspare Manos, Thai-Italian painter and sculptor • July 11 – Patrik Andiné, Swedish painter • July 23 – Paulo Henrique, Portuguese choreographer and multidisciplinary artist • August 16 – Wolfgang Tillmans, German fine-art photographer • September 17 – David Shrigley, British visual artist • December 13 – Michael Triegel, German painter • December 23 – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Puerto Rican documentary photographer • date unknown • Sika Foyer, Togolese American artist • Juan Carlos Pinto - Guatemalan-born U.S. mosaic artist • Nahem Shoa, British portrait painter ==Deaths==

• January 29 – Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese-born French painter and printmaker (born 1886) • February 11 – Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Jewish painter and woodcut artist (born 1887) • April 26 – John Heartfield, German graphic designer (born 1891) • May 9 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (born 1894) • May 21 – Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor (born 1894) • May 28 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch Fauvist painter (born 1877) • June 17 – Cassandre, French graphic designer (born 1901) • July 2 – Sir Hans Heysen, German-born Australian watercolour painter (born 1877) • July 16 – William John Leech, Irish painter (born 1881) • August 8 – Orovida Pissarro, English painter and etcher (born 1893) • October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, influential French artist (born 1887) • November – Lee Gatch, American painter and mixed-media artist (born 1902) • November 2 – Estella Solomons, Irish painter (born 1882) • November 4 – Michel Kikoine, Litvak-born French painter (born 1892) • November 11 – Janet Sobel, Ukrainian American Abstract Expressionist pioneer of drip painting (born 1893) • December 2 – Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (born 1902) • date unknown – William Conor, Irish painter (born 1881) ==See also==