1967 in art

Events from the year 1967 in art.

Events

• May 14 – Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix by Elisabeth Frink.
• September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.
• December 17 – 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum: The people of Basel (Switzerland) vote to purchase two paintings by Picasso to retain them in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
• John Willett publishes Art in a City, a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool.
• Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
• The Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is established in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan, as a permanent home for The Hiroshima Panels.

Exhibitions

• February 28–May 7 – New Documents photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York curated by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
• September–October – Im Spazio ("The Space of Thoughts") at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant and introducing Arte Povera.

Works

• Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 (photograph)
• Francis Bacon – Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
• Sargis Baghdasaryan – We Are Our Mountains (sculpture)
• Max Bill – Rhythm in Space (sculpture)
• Peter Blake with Jann Haworth – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (collage for record album cover)
• Sir Anthony Caro - Prairie (sculpture)
• Salvador Dalí – Tuna Fishing
• Edward Delaney – ' (bronze statue)
• Jose de Rivera – Infinity (sculpture)
• DuÅ¡an Džamonja – Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina
• Milton Glaser – Dylan (poster)
• Barbara Hepworth – Two Forms (Orkney) (slate sculpture)
• Eila Hiltunen – Sibelius Monument (Helsinki)
• David Hockney – A Bigger Splash
• Richard Long – A Line Made by Walking (land art)
• Timothy Malone – Corten Steel Sculpture
• Joan Miró – The Caress of a Bird (sculpture)
• Henry Moore – sculptures
• Nuclear Energy
• Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
• Barnett Newman
• Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed)
• Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal)
• Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)
• Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso (sculpture)
• Michelangelo Pistoletto – Venus of the Rags, (Assemblage - first version)
• Faith Ringgold – '
• Faith Ringgold – '
• Norman Rockwell – Russian Schoolroom
• Kenneth Snelson – Six Number Two (sculpture)
• Mark di Suvero – Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) (sculpture)
• Yevgeny Vuchetich – The Motherland Calls (sculpture)
• Andy Warhol
• Big Electric Chair
• I, a Man (film)
• Steve Weaver – John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce
• James Wines – Three Bronze Discs (sculpture)
• David Wynne – Bird Fountains (Ambassador College, Pasadena, California)