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The year 1988 in art involved some significant events.
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Events
- Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl
Exhibitions
- Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
Awards
Works
Births
Steven Solana was born in California
Deaths
- March 19 - Isabel Bishop, painter and graphic artist
- April 17 - Louise Nevelson, sculptor
- April 26 - Valerie Solanas, militant feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol
- June - Andrea Pazienza, comics artist
- August 12 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist
- November 12 - Primo Conti, futurist artist
- December 2 - Kimon Evan Marengo, "Kem", cartoonist
- December 30 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor and landscape architect
