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EVENTS

Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".

Documenta 6 takes place.

Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein , Cindy Sherman , Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists' Space in New York.

Awards

- ''Robert Klippel''

EXHIBITIONS

Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.

Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

WORKS

Marina Abramovic and Ulay - ''Expansion in Space''

Lucian Freud - ''Naked Man with Rat''

Gordon Matta-Clark - ''Jacob's Ladder''

Robert Morris - ''Williams Mirrors''

Cindy Sherman - ''Untitled Film Stills'' (through 1980)

BIRTHS

February 8 - Yucef Merhi , New Media Artist

DEATHS

April 27 - Charles Alston , artist and teacher

July 27 - Lee Miller , photographer

August 23 - Naum Gabo , sculptor

September 23 - John Nash , painter, illustrator and engraver, brother of Paul Nash

October 20 - Marie-Thérèse Walter , muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of his daughter (suicide)

November 5 - René Goscinny , co-creator of the ''Astérix'' comic strip

''date unknown'' - Walter Pritchard , stained glass artist

''date unknown'' - Philip Lindsey Clark , sculptor

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