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18 August – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902). 28 October – Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892). 5 November – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941). 17 November – John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914). 2 December – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (b.1922).
June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the Solar System. September 26 – The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown.
Art in America is widely read by art dealers, collectors, historians, art professionals, and others. It contains news and art criticism of painting, sculpture, photography, installation art , performance art , digital art , video and architecture in exhibition reviews, artist profiles, and feature articles.
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National Geographic logo. National Geographic is an American magazine that is noted for its cover stories and accompanying photography. [1] [2] [3] Throughout the 1980s National Geographic's cover stories showcased historical events such as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens [4] and the effects of the weather phenomenon known as El Niño. [5]
On December 5, 2018, after 90 days of inactivity from the volcano, the eruption that started in 1983 was declared to be over. January 18 – The International Olympic Committee restores Native American athlete Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. January 19 – Apple Inc. releases the Apple Lisa personal computer.
1983 Kary Mullis revolutionized molecular biology with his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, which required only a test tube, some reagents, a DNA template, and a source of heat. 1986 April – The first child produced from a gestational surrogacy is born. This is the first time in history that a child has been born to somebody who is ...
1955 in art – Birth of Beau Dick, Jeff Koons, Akira Toriyama; Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin; Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting) 1954 in art – Death of Henri Matisse , André Derain , Frida Kahlo , Birth of David Wojnarowicz and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas