1984 - Art

Art

Painting: Polestar by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Italian-born painter Francesco Clemente, 32; I Forgot to Remember to Forget by Edward Ruscha; Five by Robert Indiana, who lost the lease on his five-story New York studio 6 years ago and moved to the Maine island of Vinalhaven; Creek by Jennifer Bartlett; Can You Hear Me? (oil on four canvases) by Elizabeth Murray. Lee Krasner (Pollock) dies at New York June 19 at age 75; Alice Neel of cancer at New York October 13 at age 84.

Sculpture: Bad Dream House No. 1 by Vito Acconci; Monument with Standing Beast by Jean Dubuffet for Chicago's State of Illinois Building.

The Dallas Museum of Art opens in January, replacing the 81-year-old Museum of Fine Arts and beginning a 60-acre Arts District. Edward Larrabee Barnes has designed the giant new limestone building.