By Series - Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series

  1. The Uffizi Gallery Is Damaged by a Bomb
  2. USA Today Is Launched
  3. Van Gogh’s Irises Sells for $53.9 Million
  4. Variety Shows Dominate Television Programming
  5. Vaughan Williams Composes His Nine Symphonies
  6. Versace Is Murdered
  7. Villa-Lobos’ Death Marks the End of a Brilliant Musical Career
  8. Violent Action-Adventure Television Series Flourish in the United States
  9. Von Sternberg Makes Dietrich a Superstar
  10. Von Stroheim Films His Silent Masterpiece Greed
  11. Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle Expresses 1960’s Alienation
  12. Waiting for Godot Expresses the Existential Theme of Absurdity
  13. Wanted: The Outlaws Revitalizes Country Music
  14. Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls Becomes a Commercial Success
  15. Webern’s Six Pieces for Large Orchestra Premieres in Vienna
  16. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Sparks Linguistic Controversy
  17. Weiss’s Absurdist Drama Marat/Sade Is Produced
  18. Welles Broadcasts The War of the Worlds
  19. Welles’s Citizen Kane Breaks with Traditional Filmmaking
  20. Westerns Dominate Postwar American Film
  21. The Whitney Museum Is Inaugurated in New York
  22. Wiesel’s Night Recalls the Holocaust
  23. William James’s Pragmatism Is Published
  24. Willson’s The Music Man Presents Musical Americana
  25. Wittgenstein Emerges as an Important Philosopher
  26. The Wiz Brings African-American Talent to Broadway
  27. Wonder Releases Innervisions
  28. The Woodstock Music Festival Marks the Climax of the 1960’s
  29. Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Explores Women’s Consciousness
  30. Wright Founds the Taliesin Fellowship
  31. Wright’s Native Son Depicts Racism in America
  32. WSM Launches The Grand Ole Opry
  33. Wynton Marsalis Revives Acoustic Jazz
  34. Yeats Publishes The Wild Swans at Coole
  35. Young Readers Embrace The Catcher in the Rye
  36. Zhdanov Denounces “Formalism” in Music
  37. “Angry Young Men” Express Working-Class Views
  38. The “Boom” Captures Worldwide Attention
  39. “Les Six” Begin Giving Concerts
  40. “MASTER HAROLD” . . . and the boys Examines Apartheid
  41. “Mr. Television,” Milton Berle, Has the Top-Rated Show