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January 10 – Charles Olson, American modernist poet (liver cancer, born 1910) January 29 – B. H. Liddell Hart , English military historian (born 1895 ) February 2 – Bertrand Russell , English philosopher (born 1872 ) [ 20 ]
January 16 – John Lennon's exhibition of Bag One at the London Arts Gallery is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs".; October - In celebration of her large gift of art works (including ones by Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, and Picasso, ) to the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco from the collection assembled by her late husband Thomas Edward Hanley, Tullah Hanley throws an ...
The first, the American Social Science Association, was founded in 1865 in Boston. The second was the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which ASSA's membership created in 1898. The qualification for membership in the NIAL was notable achievement in art, music, or literature. The NIAL's membership was at first limited to 150 (all men).
The American Art Association (AAA) was founded by James F. Sutton (President of AAA), R. Austin Robertson, and Thomas Kirby (1846–1924) in 1883. [4] Thomas Kirby had grown up in Philadelphia and moved his family to New York in 1876, in the years prior to starting the AAA, he worked at various auction firms and importers in New York. [5]
The Women's Art Registry was created in 1970 to provide information about artists and their works and "counter curatorial bias and ignorance." It was maintained in several locations after the group disbanded in 1971. The registry, a model for other resource initiatives, is now maintained at Rutgers University's Mabel Smith Douglass Library. [24 ...
Arts organizations established in the 1970s (12 C, 6 P) Performing groups disestablished in the 1970s (11 C) Performing groups established in the 1970s (11 C, 2 P)
Musical groups established in the 1970s (11 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Arts organizations established in the 1970s" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Chicago State University inaugurated the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1988 with 39 initial inductions. [3] In 1999, the audience "buzzed" when one of the 30 inductees was announced to be Studs Terkel. Professor Haki Madhubuti "pointed out that Studs 'is not part of the black community’s genealogical ...