1953
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Art and culture
- Founding of Olympia Press
- Founding of Playboy Magazine
- Founding of New York Film Society
Visual art
Literature
Fiction
- Junkie by William Burroughs
- Watt by Samuel Beckett
- Une étude sur Raymond Roussel by Jean Ferry published by Losfeld in 1953.
- Writing Degree Zero by Barthes
- L'Anglais décrit dans le château fermé
- Waiting for Godot written by Samuel Beckett
Non fiction
- Prints and Visual Communication by William Ivins
Film
- The Wild One by László Benedek
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Summer with Monika by Ingmar Bergman
- Monsieur Hulot's Holiday by Jacques Tati
- The Wages of Fear by Clouzot
- Glen or Glenda by Ed Wood Jr.
Shorts
- Les Statues meurent aussi by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais
- Eaux d'artifice by Kenneth Anger
Music
- C'est si bon by Eartha Kitt
- Kaw-Liga by Hank Williams
- Mystery Train by Junior Parker
Guilty pleasure
- The Happy Wanderer by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller
Births
- Tanino Liberatore (1953 - )
- Dennis Bovell (1953 - )
- Jon Savage (1953 - )
- John Oswald (1953 - )
- Romain Slocombe (1953 - )
- Chaka Khan (1953 - )
- Wim Mertens (1953 - )
- Dennis Cooper (1953 - )
Deaths
- Rachilde (1860 - 1953)
- Alice Prin (Kiki) (1901 - 1953)
- Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953)
- Jean Epstein (1897 - 1953)
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