Today in Art History
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 44 of 44
1667-04-09 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1831-01-22 - Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
1870-04-13 - Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC
1871-03-28 - SF Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine
1872-02-20 - Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC)
1886-02-13 - Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1901-01-31 - Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1904-01-17 - Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1906-05-13 - Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1913-02-15 - 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
1929-11-07 - Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)
Naturalist Charles Darwin
1929-11-08 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1932-11-15 - Walt Disney Art School created
1935-12-28 - W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
1937-03-24 - National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1937-07-19 - Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1938-06-03 - German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
1941-03-16 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1947-10-29 - Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
1949-03-10 - Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
1950-09-05 - 70th US Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (63 46 57 64 63)
1951-05-21 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1958-01-26 - Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
1959-04-05 - 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
1961-10-17 - NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1961-12-04 - Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse
1966-04-01 - 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966-11-04 - Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1966-11-09 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London
1967-10-11 - Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1968-07-01 - John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
1969-08-15 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1972-09-04 - Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.
1975-04-08 - 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1981-09-19 - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park
1982-06-12 - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam
1984-10-25 - King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1989-03-18 - Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1990-03-18 - Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
1990-10-05 - Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
1992-10-12 - Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
Rocker/Beatle John Lennon
1993-01-23 - Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1996-02-08 - NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the Browns' name behind
2001-05-04 - The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 33 of 33
1729-03-28 - Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet)
1824-01-14 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
1832-12-27 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
1841-03-07 - William Rockhill Nelson, founder of The Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
1843-10-20 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art connoisseur
1862-07-14 - Gustav Klimt, Austria, Art Nouveau painter
1862-11-15 - Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
1869-03-03 - Henry J Wood, English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
1869-10-14 - Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles)
1872-01-16 - Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art of theatre)
1878-02-23 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
1879-04-13 - Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943)
1882-07-10 - Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony
1884-06-25 - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1889-10-19 - Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer (1968 Acad of Country Music Award)
1898-08-26 - Peggy Guggenheim, art patron & collector
1908-06-10 - Brinsley Ford, CEO (National Art Collections Fund)
1911-05-31 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector
1912-06-24 - Selwyn Powell, art editor
1912-06-30 - Kenneth Jameson, art educator
1923-10-27 - Roy Lichtenstein, NYC, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels)
1926-03-12 - Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1926-09-19 - Pierre Janssen, art museum director
1935-07-24 - Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
1936-05-16 - Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
1936-08-21 - Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia
1939-08-13 - Saul Steinberg, artist (The Art of Living)
1947-01-04 - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1950-06-04 - Dagmar Krause, West Germany, singer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1950-10-31 - Jozef Stolorz, polish art painter
Actor Jackie Chan (1954-04-07)
1954-04-07 - Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)
1956-05-13 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
1970-06-01 - Joshua Compston, art impressario
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 10 of 10
1800-04-18 - Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies
1916-03-21 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72
1961-03-31 - Seerp Anema, Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85
1966-07-30 - Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94
1994-07-28 - Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82
1996-02-03 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector, dies at 84
1996-03-05 - Joshua Compston, art impressario, dies at 26
1996-03-17 - Kenneth Jameson, art educationalist, dies at 83
2003-03-20 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2007-12-18 - Jack Linkletter, American television host, son of Art Linkletter (b. 1937)
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