2012  

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2012 was the 12th year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.

Events

• "Punk Prayer - Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!"

Film

• Ruby Sparks by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
• Cosmopolis by Cronenberg
• Looper by Rian Johnson
• Hitchcock by Sacha Gervasi
• Berberian Sound Studio by Peter Strickland
• Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen by György Pálfi
• The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson

Documentary

• Inventing the Indian (2012)

Music

Albums

• Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 -- various
• Country Funk 1969–1975 --various
• The Orbserver in the Star House by The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry
• Originals Volume Eight compiled by Lexx

Singles

• Encore by Nicolas Jaar
• Thrift Shop by Macklemore
• Ride by Lana Del Rey
• Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby by Cigarettes After Sex
• Inspector Norse by Todd Terje
• Flowers by Andrew Ashong and Theo Parrish

Visual art

• Sandworm (Marco Casagrande)
• Flemish Landscape Fables exhibition in Lille

Literature

• The Weird an anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• The Natural Origin of Language by Robin Allott
• Pornographic Archaeology by Zrinka Stahuljak

In the public domain

In the public domain in 2012 according the 70 years rule

• Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge by El Lissitzky

Deaths

Deaths in 2012

• March 28 - Jacques Carelman, French painter, illustrator and designer (A Catalogue of Unfindable Objects) (b. 1929)
• José Bénazéraf, 90, French film director and producer.
• Fontella Bass, 72, American singer ("Rescue Me"), complications from a heart attack.
• December 11 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920)
• Oscar Niemeyer, 104, Brazilian architect, respiratory infection.
• Dave Brubeck, 91, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
• Terry Callier, 67, American singer-songwriter.
• Sylvia Kristel, 60, Dutch actress (Emmanuelle), model and singer, throat and liver cancer.
• Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut, first person to set foot upon the Moon, complications from heart surgery.
• Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist (Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial).
• Mel Stuart, 83, American film director (If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), cancer.
• Gore Vidal, 86, American playwright, novelist, and political commentator, pneumonia.
• Chris Marker, 91, French writer, photographer, documentary film director and multimedia artist.
• Gerrit Komrij, 68, Dutch writer, cancer.
• Andrew Sarris, 83, American film critic.
• Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress (Cry-Baby, Fat City, Forbidden Zone).
• Rodney King, 47, American victim of 1991 police brutality incident.
• Ray Bradbury, 91, American science fiction and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles).
• Donna Summer, 63, American disco singer ("I Feel Love"), lung cancer.
• Carlos Fuentes, 83, Mexican novelist.
• Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), cancer.
• Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.
• Jean Giraud, 73, French comic book artist (Blueberry, Métal Hurlant) and production designer (Tron, Alien).
• Whitney Houston, 48, American singer and actress.
• Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Tales of Ordinary Madness), pancreatic cancer.
• Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. (body found on this date)
• Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor.
• Etta James, 73, American singer ("At Last"), leukemia.
• Jimmy Castor, 64, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)").

See also

• Deaths in 2008
• Deaths in 2009
• Deaths in 2010
• Deaths in 2011