1967 in art

Events

• May 14 – Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix by Elisabeth Frink.
• September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.
• John Willett publishes Art in a City, a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool.
• Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
• The Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is established in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan, as a permanent home for The Hiroshima Panels.

  Awards

Exhibitions

• February 28-May 7 – New Documents photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York curated by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
• September-October – Im Spazio at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant and introducing Arte Povera.

  Works

• Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967
• Francis Bacon – Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
• Sargis Baghdasaryan – We Are Our Mountains
• Max Bill – Rhythm in Space
• Peter Blake with Jann Haworth – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Salvador Dalí – Tuna Fishing
• Edward Delaney – :File:WolfeToneStatue.JPG|Wolfe Tone
• Jose de Rivera – Infinity
• Dušan Džamonja – Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina
• Milton Glaser – Dylan
• Barbara Hepworth – Two Forms
• Eila Hiltunen – Sibelius Monument
• David Hockney – A Bigger Splash
• Richard Long – A Line Made by Walking
• Timothy Malone – Corten Steel Sculpture
• Joan Miró – The Caress of a Bird
• Henry Moore – sculptures
• * Nuclear Energy
• * Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
• Barnett Newman – Voice of Fire
• Isamu Noguchi – Sinai
• Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso
• Michelangelo Pistoletto – Muretto di straci
• Norman Rockwell – Russian Schoolroom
• Kenneth Snelson – Six Number Two
• Mark di Suvero – Are Years What?
• Yevgeny Vuchetich – The Motherland Calls
• Andy Warhol
• * Big Electric Chair
• * I, a Man
• James Wines – Three Bronze Discs
• David Wynne – Bird Fountains

  Births

• January 1 – Spencer Tunick, American photographer
• March 4 – Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born film director, photographer and visual artist
• December 15 – David Černý, sculptor associated with Prague
• date unknown
• * Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic installation artist
• * Andy Taylor, Australian painter and printmaker

  Deaths

• January 8 – Josef Frank, Austrian-born Swedish architect and designer
• January 10 – Charles E. Burchfield, American landscape watercolorist
• January 15 – David Burliuk, Russian avant-garde artists
• January 28 – Ary Stillman, Russian-American representational and abstract painter
• January 31 - Oscar Fischinger, German born American animator, filmmaker and painter
• February 17 – Nancy Cox-McCormack, American portrait sculptor
• March 31 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter
• May 15 – Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker
• May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter
• August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter
• November 21 – Vladimir Lebedev, Russian painter and graphic artist
• November 22 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter
• December 12 – Mac Raboy, American illustrator
• December 26 – Ambrose McCarthy Patterson, Australian painter and printmaker
• date unknown
• * Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist
• * Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter