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