Events from the year 1972 in art.
Events
- MarchâÂÂNovember â City Sculpture Project in England.
- May 21 â In St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City), Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's Pietàstatue with a geologist's hammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.
- June 8 â KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark, designed by Alvar and Elissa Aalto and Jean-Jacques Baruël, is completed.
- September 4 â 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery.
- September 15 â Release in France of Luis Buñuel's surrealist film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
- September 16 â Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, New York, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.
- September â Release in the United Kingdom of Ken Russell's biographical film about Gaudier-Brzeska, Savage Messiah.
- October 4 â Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, designed by Louis Kahn, is opened.
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- BBC Television broadcasts Ways of Seeing, a four-part series by John Berger on art.
- The Bridgeman Art Library is established as a commercial virtual archive of images by Harriet Bridgeman in London.
- Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser publishes his architectural manifesto, Your window right â your tree duty.
- Portmeirion Pottery brings out its best-selling "Botanic Garden" design.
- Oliver Millar becomes the first full-time Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures in the United Kingdom, succeeding Anthony Blunt.
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