1980s
- 1989 in art - Death of Pierre Matisse, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo
- 1988 in art - Death of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson
- 1987 in art - Death of Andy Warhol, Raphael Soyer; Christian Lacroix opens his Paris fashion house
- 1986 in art - Death of Henry Moore, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jane Frank
- 1985 in art - Death of Marc Chagall, Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-expressionism
- 1984 in art - Death of Ansel Adams, Lee Krasner
- 1983 in art - Death of Joan Miró
- 1982 in art - Death of Wifredo Lam, Ben Nicholson
- 1981 in art - Death of Isaac Soyer; Birth of Miru Kim
- 1980 in art - Death of Albert Kotin, Clyfford Still, Tony Smith, Graham Sutherland, Oskar Kokoschka; Pablo Picasso major retrospective exhibition at Museum of Modern Art (New York)
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