1990
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1990 (MCMXC) was the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade.
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Art and culture
Exhibitions
- High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture at New York's Museum of Modern Art, curated by Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik.
- Made in Heaven by Jeff Koons at the 1990 Venice Biennale
- The Perfect Moment by Robert Mapplethorpe
Design
Film
- Henry & June by Philip Kaufman
- The Comfort of Strangers by Paul Schrader
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! by Almodovar
- Miami Blues by George Armitage
- Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton
- Joe Versus the Volcano by John Patrick Shanley
- King of New York by Abel Ferrara
- Goodfellas by - Martin Scorsese
- Twin Peaks by Lynch, Frost
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- Begotten by E. Elias Merhige
Music
Events
- Music Institute in Detroit closes its doors
- Masters at Work debuts
- the KLF release their seminal ambient house album named Chill Out.
Albums
- 25 Years Later by Blaze
- From The Secret Laboratory by Lee Perry with Dub Syndicate
- People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm by A Tribe Called Quest
- Music of Twin Peaks by Angelo Badalamenti
Singles
- Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb
- You Got The Love by The Source featuring Candi Staton
- Groove Is in the Heart by Deee-Lite
- What U Waiting 4? by The Jungle Brothers
- Searchin' by 33 1/3 Queen
- The Poem by Bobby Konders (feat. Mutabaruka)
- Jungle Bass by Bootsy's Rubber Band
- The Art Of Stalking by Suburban Knight
- LFO by LFO
- Radio Babylon" by Meat Beat Manifesto
Literature
Births
Deaths
- Louis Althusser (1918 - 1990)
- Alberto Moravia (1907 - 1990)
- Maurice Girodias (1919 - 1990)
- Keith Haring (1958 - 1990)
- Michel Leiris (1901 - 1990)
- Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990)
- Michael Powell (1905 - 1990)
- B. F. Skinner (1904 – 1990)
- Léon Stynen (1899 – 1990)
- Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (b. 1925)
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