Events from the year 1974 in art. Events 26 April – Nineteen Old Master paintings from the Beit collection are stolen from Russborough House in Ireland by a Provisional Irish Republican Army gang including English heiress Rose Dugdale. Roy Strong becomes Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Hallwalls, a non profit exhibition space and arts organization, is established in a converted ice packing warehouse in Buffalo, New York, by the artists Charles Clough, Robert Longo, Diane Bertolo, Nancy Dwyer, Larry Lundy, Cindy Sherman and Michael Zwack. Awards Archibald Prize: Sam Fullbrook – Jockey Norman Stephens John Moores Painting Prize - Myles Murphy - "Figure with Yellow Foreground" Exhibitions Works Bruce Beasley – Big Red (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon) Salvador Dalí – Nieuw Amsterdam (object/sculpture) Judy Dater – Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (photograph) Silvio Gazzaniga – FIFA World Cup Trophy David Hockney – Contre-jour in the French style – Against the Day dans le style français Nabil Kanso – Vietnam Bernard Kirschenbaum – Twist for Max (sculpture) Joan Miró Hands flying off toward the constellations The hope of a condemned Man (series) Odd Nerdrum – Liberation Enzo Plazzotta – Crucifixion Tony Rosenthal – 5 in 1 (steel sculpture, New York City) Ruskin Spear – Harold Wilson Graham Sutherland – Lord Goodman David Wynne – Boy With a Dolphin (bronze, Cheyne Walk, London) Meet the Residents (album cover) Films A Bigger Splash Births 15 May – Kadir Nelson, African American illustrator. 31 May – Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist. 16 June – Paul Lee, English artist. 1 September – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer. 8 November – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka. 13 November – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect. 7 December – Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist. Full date unknown Banksy, English graffiti artist. Bogna Burska, Polish playwright and visual artist. Amelie Chabannes, French painter and sculptor. Luke Jerram, British installation artist. Fabrice Lachant, French photographer. OSGEMEOS (Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo), Brazilian twin graffiti artists. Dulce Pinzon, Mexican-born visual artist. Bojan Šarčević, Bosnian-French visual artist. Bedwyr Williams, Welsh installation and performance artist. Deaths January to June 19 January – Edward Seago, English painter (b. 1910). 30 January – Robert Darwin, English painter and Rector of the Royal College of Art (b. 1910) 15 February – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (b. 1907). 4 March – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (b. 1903). 9 March