2014 Event '12 Years a Slave' and 'Gravity' dominate wins at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards ceremony; Chiwetel Ejiofor ('12 Years') and Cate Blanchett ('Blue Jasmine') receive leading actor and actress awards, respectively 2012 Event The film 'Chinese Zodiac' featuring martial arts star Jackie Chan, will be the last film made by the action star 2012 Event The 'Lamb of God', the first panels of the Ghent Altarpiece are secretly moved from Saint Bavo Cathedral for a five-year restoration at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts; the panels are likely the most frequently stolen artwork in history 2011 Event For appearing in a film critical of the Iran's harsh policies on the arts, actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year in jail 1997 Death Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89 1997 Death Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47 1997 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1996 Death Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47 1996 Death Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96 1995 Death Lynette Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, dies at 86 1991 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1990 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1989 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1988 Event Bronx Museum for Arts opens 1987 Death Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 1984 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1983 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1983 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1981 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1980 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1977 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1976 Event Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1971 Event John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington D.C. 1969 Event 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8 1969 Event Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston 1967 Event Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) 1965 Birthday Alphons Arts, Dutch soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles 1963 Birthday Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts 1962 Event NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts 1961 Birthday Jay Aston, London, England, singer, youngest member of British pop group, Bucks Fizz, founded Jay Aston Theatre Arts School 1960 Birthday Robin Shou, martial arts actor, Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja 1954 Birthday Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation 1953 Birthday Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center 1949 Birthday Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron 1949 Birthday Peter Dormer, arts writer 1947 Birthday Luke Rittner, Secretary-General, Arts Council 1945 Birthday Timothy Mason, consultant, British Arts Council 1943 Event WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters 1940 Birthday Chuck Norris, Carlos Ray, born in Oklahoma, martial arts actor, Missing in Action 1938 Birthday Yuji Takahashi, born in Japan, composer, author, pianist, performer, grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists 1937 Birthday David Behrman, born in Salzburg, Austria, composer, producer, Music of Our Time series, Columbia Records, founding member, Sonic Arts Union 1932 Birthday Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts 1930 Birthday Ryohei Hirose, born in Hakodate, Japan, composer, professor, Kyoto University of Arts 1977 - 1996, composes music for shakuhachi, recorder, viola da gamba 1929 Birthday Oliver Neville, principal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts 1929 Birthday Adrienne Rich, born in Baltimore, Maryland, feminist writer, 'The Diamond Cutters' and 'Arts of the Possible' 1927 Event Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1927 Event Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms 1926 Birthday Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer, 1957 Arts and Letters 1924 Birthday Ikuma Dan, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, studied under famous opera composer Kosaku Yamada 1924 Birthday Mark Bucci, New York City, composer, 1959 Arts and Letters Award 1923 Birthday Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, New York, novelist, Catch-22, 1963 Arts and Letters Award 1922 Birthday Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records 1915 Birthday Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist, Beaux Arts Trio 1914 Birthday Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra 1913 Event Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF 1913 Event National Institute of Arts and Letters founded 1911 Birthday Hortense Calisher, New York City, novelist, Arts and Letters 1967 1910 Birthday Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts 1910 Birthday Kitty Carlisle, born in Louisiana, American singer, spokeswoman for the arts, actress, 'To Tell The Truth' panelist 1910 Event National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress 1909 Birthday Lynette Roberts, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, Faber and Faber published works, 'Poems', 'Gods with stainless ears; a heroic poem' 1908 Birthday Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts, Labour 1908 Birthday Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate 1907 Event Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters 1904 Birthday Isamu Noguchi, sculptor, 1963 Fine Arts Medal 1904 Event American Academy of Arts and Letters forms 1903 Birthday Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters 1900 Birthday Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts 1898 Birthday Ben Shahn, painter, 1964 Arts and Letters 1897 Birthday Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director 1869 Death Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies 1869 Birthday Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts, VVD 1862 Birthday Bernard Maybeck, U.S. architect, Palace of Fine Arts, SF 1849 Birthday Max Nordau, German arts/writer/zionist leader 1805 Event Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia 1780 Event 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston) 1780 Event American Academy of Arts and Science founded
