1998 in art

Events from the year 1998 in art.

Events

• April – Fans of Newcastle United F.C. decorate the newly erected Angel of the North sculpture with a giant replica of Alan Shearer's no. 9 shirt. Police remove the shirt after about twenty minutes.
• 3 December – 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets approve the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (or "Washington Declaration"), requiring efforts to be made to restore looted art to its original owners or their heirs.
• Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.

Exhibitions

• 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3
• Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle
• Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou
• Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon
• Turner Prize – Chris Ofili

Works

• Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
• Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan)
• Michael Condron – (Woking, England)
• Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space
• Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North
• David Hockney – '
• Alexander McQueen – Joan (fashion collection and show, London, February 25)
• Mary Miss – Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York City
• Ron Mueck – Ghost
• Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry
• Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon)
• Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.)
• Edwina Sandys - Eve's Apple permanently installed in Windsor, Ontario
• Piotr Uklański – The Nazis
• Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)