Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic collection Images à la sauvette is published by Tériade in Paris.Louis le Brocquy's 1951 painting A Family sparks controversy in Ireland when a group of art patrons offer to present it to the Dublin Municipal Gallery and it is rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence.Britain also displays paintings by Graham Sutherland and Edward Wadsworth. Eight younger British artists ( Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull) are represented in the "New Aspects of British Sculpture" exhibition at the Venice Biennale which Herbert Read describes as the " Geometry of Fear".August 29 – Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.
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