Events
- 7 March – Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.
- May – Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube. Tracey Emin's first major exhibition, "My Major Retrospective 1963–1993" (sic.) opens here on 19 November.
- 27 May – Via dei Georgofili Massacre: A car bomb planted outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the Mafia kills five and irretrievably destroys three paintings, including an Adoration of the shepherds (1620) by Gerard van Honthorst.
- 21 June – Tate St Ives gallery opens in Cornwall, England.
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“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
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