See also: 1975 in art, other events of 1976, 1977 in art, List of years in art 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...
February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Hans Richter was a Dada artist, filmmaker and writer. ... May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898 _ May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect. ...
I sympathize with the fragility of your position and reputation, and your quasi-hysterical anxiety as you buttress the sand castle of art with the cement of your aesthetic theories in order to keep it from crumbling.
All art is commercial and a good artist can do a sublime painting even when it's commissioned by a Mongolian idiot with a gold credit card.
Soon the art market will be dead as gallery's doornail, with the exception of course, of the 50 most power megabuck full giants with their 50 van Goghs stored away in their private tax-exempt foundation-fortresses.
Perhaps the most interesting and broad-based trend of the year involved artists' continuing fascination with self-exposure.
Body art, work using the artist's body as a subject, began as a concern of the happening movement in the early 1960's and came into its own late in the decade as a development...