1982 in art

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Events from the year 1982 in art.

Events

June 26 – The Paul Delvaux Museum in Saint-Idesbald, Belgium, is inaugurated with Paul Delvaux present.^[1]
July 22 – An 1847 bronze casting of a statue of politician William Huskisson by John Gibson is removed by night from its original plinth in Liverpool (England) by activists because of the subject's support for the slave trade.^[2]
May 23 – Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, released today.
December 28 – Snow v Eaton Centre Ltd decided: the Ontario High Court of Justice affirms the artist's right to integrity of his work.
Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens Jacqueline Livingston "A One Artist Gallery" in New York's Soho showing a different body of her work monthly for one year. Livingston and her gallery are placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography.^[3]

October 20 – Adela Jušić, contemporary visual artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina
December 10 – Zuzana Čížková, Czech painter and sculptor
December 16 – Justin Mentell, American artist and actor (d. 2010)
María Berrío, Colombian-born graphic artist
Jeff Gibbons, American artist
Tris Vonna-Michell, British installation artist
Approximate date – Bambi, English graffiti artist

January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b.1905)
January 27 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (b.1905)
February 6 – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b.1894)
June 10 – Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model (b.1894)
June 29 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b.1914)
August 3 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (b.1927)
September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)^[7]
September 17 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (b.1909)^[8]
October 9 – Charles E. Brown, English aviation photographer (b.1896)
October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (b.1908)
November 3 – Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine painter and architect (b. 1889)
November 27 – Radomir Stević Ras, Serbian painter and designer (b. 1931)