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 The arts is a vast subdivision
of culture, composed of many
creative endeavors and
disciplines. It is a broader term
than "art", which, as a
description of a field, usually
means only the visual arts. The
arts encompass the visual arts,
the literary arts and
the performing
arts music, theatre, dance an
d film, among others. This list
is by no means comprehensive,
but only meant to introduce the
concept of the arts. For all
intents and purposes, the
history of the arts begins with
the history of art. The arts
might have origins in early
human evolutionary prehistory.
Ancient Greek art saw the
veneration of the animal form
and the development of
equivalent skills to show
musculature, poise, beauty and
anatomically correct
proportions. Ancient
Roman art depicted gods as
idealized humans, shown with
characteristic distinguishing
features (e.g. Jupiter's
thunderbolt).
In Byzantine and Gothic art of
the Middle Ages, the
dominance of the church
insisted on the expression of
biblical and not material truths.
Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on
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The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and

Dance is a 1525-seat theaterfor the performing arts located along the
northern edge of Millennium Park in the Loopcommunity
I. M. Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese Americanarchitect, often called a
area of Chicago. The theater was named for its primary benefactors,
master of modern architecture. Born in Guangzhou, in 1935 he
Joan and Irving Harris. It serves as the Park's indoor performing
moved to the United States. While enrolled at Massachusetts
venue, a complement to Jay Pritzker Pavilion, which hosts the park's
Institute of Technology, he became unhappy with the school's focus
outdoor performances. Constructed in 200203, it is the city's
on Beaux-Arts architecture, and spent his free time researching the
premier performance venue for small- and medium-sized music and
emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier. After graduating, he
dance groups. It provides subsidized rental, technical expertise, and
joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design and formed a
marketing support for the companies using it, and turned a profit in
friendship with the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel
its fourth fiscal year. The Harris Theater has hosted notable national
Breuer. Pei spent ten years working with New York real estate
and international performers, such as the New York City Ballet's first
magnate William Zeckendorf before establishing his own
visit to Chicago in over 25 years (in 2006). Performances have
independent design firm that eventually became Pei Cobb Freed
included the San Francisco Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Stephen
& Partners. Among the early projects on which Pei took the lead
Sondheim. The theater has been credited as contributing to the
were the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC, and the Green
performing arts renaissance in Chicago, and has been favourably
Building at MIT. His first major recognition came with the National
reviewed for its acoustics, sightlines, proscenium and for providing a
Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado; his new stature led
home for numerous performing organisations.
to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in
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of the National Gallery of Art. In the early 1980s, Pei was
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focus of controversy when he designed a glass-and-steel
pyramid for the Louvre museum in Paris. Pei has won a wide
variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including
the 1983 Pritzker Prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of
architecture.

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home in Weston, Massachusetts Books Classical music Musical theatre
10 October 1881 London's Savoy Theatre,
Novels built
by the
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impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte to showcasecare
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operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,opens with
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11 October 1910 Italian composer and
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Balilla Pratella completes his Manifesto
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of the earliest signs of Futurism's influence in fields outside the visual
Literature Gilbert and Sullivan Graffiti
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Magic Richard Wagner Graphic design
17 October 1896 The first performance of Anton Chekhov's
Poetry Fashion
play The Seagull is booed by the audience, after which Chekhov
decides to give up writing plays Television Photography
25 October 1881 Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Public art
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September 27: British actor Tony Booth dies at 85

September 26: First Star Trek series in twelve years, Discovery,
debuts on television
September 6: Tim Curry, TV premiere screenings, cosplay feature at
Fan Expo Canada
July 30: British dancer and talent show winner Robert Anker dies in
car accident aged 27
July 25: Linkin Park's lead singer Chester Bennington dies at 41
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