Events from the year 1977 in art. Events April 19 – Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. May 8–24 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape, Three Weeks in May takes place in Los Angeles. September 12 – American poet Robert Lowell dies having suffered a heart attack in the back of a cab in New York City while returning to his ex-wife Elizabeth Hardwick carrying a portrait of his current wife Lady Caroline Blackwood by her first husband Lucian Freud. 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. Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, designed by Kamran Diba, is inaugurated. Awards Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor – 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 Abramović and Ulay – Expansion in Space Walter De Maria – The Lightning Field (land art) Lucian Freud – Naked Man with Rat Tina Girouard - "Pinwheel" (performance instillation at the New Orleans Museum of Art) Gilbert & George – Series of Red Morning works David Hockney – My Parents Donald Judd – Untitled (Meter Box) Nabil Kanso – The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977) Jacob Lawrence – Self-portrait Jacques Lipchitz – Bellerophon Taming Pegasus (sculpture, New York City) Kathleen McCullough – Cat in Repose (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Gordon Matta-Clark – Jacob's Ladder Ivan Meštrović – Martin Kukučín (sculptures) Robert Morris – Williams Mirrors Maria Prymachenko - Two-Headed Chicken David Shepherd – Tiger in the Sun Cindy Sherman – Untitled Film Stills (through 1980) C. Talacca – Statue of Simón Bolívar (bronze, Houston, Texas) Jean Tinguely – Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (both kinetic sculptures in Basel) Don Wilson – Interlocking Forms (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Felix de Weldon – Statue of Ty Cobb (bronze, Royston, Georgia) Audrey Flack - World War II (Vanitas) Births 8 February – Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer. 16 April – Florentijn Hofman, Dutch installation artist. 14 May – Emeka Ogboh, Nigerian sound and installation artist. 5 October – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic cartoonist 16 December – Kevin Gillespie, American comic book creator and