American Decades

Important Events in the Arts, 1990–1999

Eight directors (Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg) found the Film Foundation, dedicated to protect and preserve the American motion picture history.
The first rap record to top the U.S. singles chart is Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby."
A judge in Florida bans the sale of 2 Live Crew's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" to minors.
In February, the New York Public Library launches a major retrospective of the work of Berenice Abbott, the largest exhibit ever accorded a living photographer.
On March 18, the largest art theft since 1911 occurs at the Gardner Museum in Boston. Among the stolen paintings, which are valued at $200 million, are five by Edgar Degas and Storm on the Sea of Galilee, the only known landscape by Rembrandt. The museum is uninsured.
In September,...

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