Events from the year1970 in art

• January 16 –John Lennon's exhibition ofBag One at the London Arts Gallery is shut down byScotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs".
• March 2–29 -Melvin Edwards: Works, a solo exhibition by American artistMelvin Edwards at New York'sWhitney Museum, the first solo show by an African-American sculptor in the museum's history.
• October - In celebration of her large gift of art works (including ones byGauguin,Mary Cassatt, andPicasso, ) to theDeYoung Museum inSan Francisco from the collection assembled by her late husband Thomas Edward Hanley, Tullah Hanley throws an epic party with rock bands, nude participants, exotic dancers (including herself), live animals and various other musical acts.^[1]
• October 26 –Garry Trudeau'scomic stripDoonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
• November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinatePope Paul VI during his visit toManila.
• Tom Keating admits that a number of watercolours in the style ofSamuel Palmer were painted by him.
• Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.
• Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia inSkopje, designed by the "WarsawTigers" (Wacław Kłyszewski,Jerzy Mokrzyński andEugeniusz Wierzbicki), is built.
• Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, the first dedicatedconceptual art exhibition, is mounted at theNew York Cultural Center.^[2]
• Theodor W. Adorno's bookAesthetic Theory (Asthetische Theorie) is published posthumously in Germany.

• February 10 untilMarch 29 -22 Realists (William Bailey,Jack Beal,Robert Bechtle, Howard Bruder,John Clem Clarke,Chuck Close, Arthur Elias,Richard Estes,Audrey Flack,Maxwell Hendler, Richard Joseph,Howard Kanovitz,Gabriel Laderman,Alfred Leslie,Richard McLean,Malcolm Morley,Philip Pearlstein,Donald Perlis, Paul Staiger,Sidney Tillim, Paul Wiesenfeld, and Donald James Wynn) at theWhitney Museum of American Art inNew York City.^[3]

• Archibald Prize:Eric Smith –Gruzman – Architect
• PrixPuvis de Chavannes –Daniel du Janerand

• Gilbert and George –The Singing Sculpture (performance)^[4]
• Barbara Hepworth –Family of Man
• Alvin D. Loving Jr. –Cube 27 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Brice Marden -For Pearl
• Henry Moore –Reclining Figure LH608
• Kanda Nissho –Indoor Landscape
• Isamu Noguchi –Night Wind
• Victor Pasmore –Apollo Pavilion (Peterlee,England)
• William Scott –Still Life With Orange Note (Arts Council of Northern Ireland)
• Aaron Shikler –Official portrait of President John F. Kennedy
• Robert Smithson –Spiral Jetty
• Wayne Thiebaud -Pop Bottles^[5]

• January 17 –Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born Americananimator
• January 22 –Alex Ross, American comic book painter and illustrator
• January 24 –Maria Balshaw, English curator
• February 10 –Peter Richards, British artist and curator
• February 15 –Shepard Fairey, American artist,graphic designer andillustrator
• February 27 –Matthias Lechner, Germanset designer andart director
• March 12 –Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and model
• May 3 –Jeffrey Sebelia, Americanfashion designer
• May 9 –Damian Loeb, American painter
• May 26 –Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanesemanga artist
• June 1 –Joshua Compston, British gallerist (d.1996)
• July 6 –Grant Bond, Americancomic book artist and writer
• July 9 –Benoit Pierre Emery, Frenchart director and fashion designer
• August 4 –Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator
• August 23 –Ben Eine, né Flynn, English street artist
• November 22 –Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter
• date unknown
  • Helen Cammock, English artist
  • Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist
  • Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist
  • Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator
  • Vincent Paronnaud, Frenchcomics artist and filmmaker
  • David Quinn, Irish artist
  • Bosco Sodi, Mexican-born abstract painter

• January 27
  • Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (born1908)
  • Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker (born1883)
• February 25 –Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter andprintmaker (born1903)
• February 26 –Ángel María de Rosa, Argentine sculptor and philanthropist (born1888)
• March 2 –Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (born1888)
• March 8
  • Waldo Peirce, American painter (born1884)
  • Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (born1892)
• March 22 –Georges Malkine, FrenchSurrealist painter (born1898)
• April 20 –Robert Laurent, American sculptor (born1890)
• April 29 –Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (born1891)
• May 13 –William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (born1899)
• May 29 –Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (born1936)
• May 31 -Clare Sheridan, English sculptor and author (born1885)
• June 3 -Roberto Longhi, Italian art historian curator (born1890)
• June 6
  • Camille Bombois, Frenchnaïve painter (born1883)
  • Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, Swedish-Finnish graphic artist (born1882)
• June 15 –Almada Negreiros, Portuguese artist (born1893)
• June 27 –Edwin La Dell, British artist (born1914)
• July 4 –Barnett Newman, American artist (born1905)
• July 7 – DameLaura Knight, EnglishImpressionist painter (born1877)
• July 13 –Lazar Drljača, Serbian painter (born1883)
• July 30 –Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (born1903)
• November 29 -Walter Stuempfig, American painter (born1914)
• December 1 –Hermine David, French painter (born1886)
• December 19 –Stig Blomberg, Swedish sculptor (born1901)
• date unknown –Ze'ev Raban, Israeli painter (born 1890)

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