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2011 was the 11th year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.
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Art and culture
- Forest Xylophone
- Pussy Riot founded
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Books
- Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt
- Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
- The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson
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Music
- Radio Soulwax: Axe Attack by Radio Soulwax
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Singles
- "212" by Azealia Banks
- "I'm His Girl" Friends
- "Do You Believe" by Poolside
- "Sonnentanz by Klangkarussell
- "Balada" by Gusttavo Lima
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Albums
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Film
- Melancholia by von Trier
- A Dangerous Method by David Cronenberg
- Hysteria by Tanya Wexler
- My Little Princess by Eva Ionesco
- Margin Call by J. C. Chandor
- Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn
- Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
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Television
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series) by Adam Curtis
- Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker
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Deaths
- May 27 - Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author (b. 1949)
- October 27 – James Hillman, American psychologist and author (b. 1926)
- Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), cancer.
- Cesária Évora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, heart failure.
- Gilbert Adair, 66, Scottish author, film critic and journalist, brain haemorrhage.
- Andrea True, 68, American adult film star and disco singer, heart failure.
- November 27 – Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927)
- Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey, television presenter (Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It) and charity fundraiser.
- Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer.
- Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer.
- Sylvia Robinson, 75, American singer, music producer and record label executive, heart failure.
- Richard Hamilton, 89, British artist, (Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?).
- Nick Ashford, 69, American R&B singer-songwriter (Ashford & Simpson), throat cancer.
- Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter ("Stand By Me", "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Kansas City"), cardiopulmonary failure.
- Gualtiero Jacopetti, 91, Italian documentary film director.
- Conrad Schnitzler, 74, German musician (Tangerine Dream, Kluster, Eruption, Berlin Express), stomach cancer.
- Polly Platt, 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab").
- Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter
- Fonce Mizell, 68, American record producer (Mizell Brothers).
- Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer.
- Simon Heere Heeresma, 79, Dutch writer.
- Darryl Pandy, 48, American house vocalist ("Love Can't Turn Around"), after short illness.
- Jack Kevorkian, 83, American right to die activist, pulmonary thrombosis.
- Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.
- Poly Styrene, 53, British musician X-Ray Spex, breast cancer.
- Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer.
- Sidney Lumet, 86, American film (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network) and theater director, lymphoma.
- Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English-born American actress (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), congestive heart failure.
- March 21 – Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician (b. 1946)
- Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack.
- Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), respiratory illness.
- Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.
- David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer (Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS), heart failure.
- Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata).
- Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Irma la Douce, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill), heart failure.
- Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer.
- John Barry, 77, English film score composer, heart attack.
- Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
- Daniel Bell, 91, American sociologist.
- Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer and director.
- Bobby Robinson, 93, American record producer.
- Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel).
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