Events from the year 1951 in art. Events April – The Peggy Guggenheim Collection at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice is first opened to the public. May 3–September 30 – Festival of Britain, based on London's South Bank. Director Hugh Casson has assembled a team of young designers and architects to create it. Festival Star emblem by Abram Games. Royal Festival Hall by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew. Dome of Discovery by Ralph Tubbs. Skylon by Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely. Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry. Sculptures: Youth Advancing by Jacob Epstein; Reclining Figure: Festival by Henry Moore; Contrapunctal Forms and Turning Forms by Barbara Hepworth; The Islanders by Siegfried Charoux; The Sunbathers by Peter Laszlo Peri; The Industries, Heavy Light and Electricity by Karel Vogel; Four Seasons Group (reliefs) by F. E. McWilliam; and a fountain by Eduardo Paolozzi. Murals by Mary Fedden, Josef Herman and John Tunnard. Furnishing fabrics and wallpapers by Lucienne Day, notably her screen-printed fabric Calyx. The Arts Council of Great Britain has also commissioned work from Robert Adams, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Frank Dobson, Karin Jonzen, F. E. McWilliam, Bernard Meadows, Uli Nimptsch and Eduardo Paolozzi. Some is sited in the concurrent open-air exhibition of sculpture in Battersea Park and there is an associated exhibition Sixty Paintings for '51 at the RBA Galleries and a show of popular and traditional art, Black Eyes & Lemonade, organised by Barbara Jones at the Whitechapel Gallery. September 2 – Unveiling of 'restored' medieval frescoes in the war-damaged St. Mary's Church, Lübeck; in 1952, Lothar Malskat reveals that most were forged by him. October 9 – American photographer Alice Austen is guest of honor at the first Alice Austen Day on Staten Island following the recent 'rediscovery' of her work. Henri Matisse completes interior decoration of Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence. Exhibitions May 2–July 29 – Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London. May 21–June 10 – 9th Street Art Exhibition (otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show), stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. Awards Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Laurie Thomas Sculptor Henry Moore refuses the offer of a knighthood. Works Salvador Dalí Christ of Saint John of the Cross A Logician Devil (woodcut) M. C.