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-:[[2000]] - [[2001]] - [[2002]] - [[2003]] - [[2004]] - [[2005]] - [[2006]] - [[2007]] - [[2008]] - [[2009]] - [[2010]]+'''2008''' (MMVIII) was the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-*[[Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now]], exhibition+*[[Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now]], Barbican Centre, London
-*[[Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror']], issue of journal of contemporary philosophy+*[[Eros au secret]] exhibition
-*''[[Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex]]'' by Mary Roach+*[[If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy we Would Be]] by Jake and Dinos Chapman
-*''[[Eros au secret]]'' was the title of an exhibition which is held from December 2007 to March 2008. +*[[Theanyspacewhatever]] by Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector
-* [[Cliff Richard]]'s earliest material will enter the [[public domain]] in the [[United Kingdom]] assuming there are no changes to copyright law.+*[[Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit]], Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf
-*''[[If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy we Would Be]]''+
-*[[PopEye]] [http://www.inenuithasselt.be/content/uih_content/record.php?ID=3737] with work by [[Guy Peellaert]] from [[May 7]] until [[June 15]] in Hasselt+
-*[[Camille Claudel]] in Paris at the [[Musée Rodin]] retrospective from [[April 15]] to [[July 20]].+
-*[[J. G. Ballard. Autopsy of the new millennium]] in Barcelona+
-*[[HOKUSAI “mad about his art” From Edmond de Goncourt to Norbert Lagane]]. [[21 May]] – [[4 August]]+
-*[[Jess Franco]] retrospective [http://robertmonell.blogspot.com/2008/05/cinematheque-francaise-jess-franco.html] at the Parisian [[Cinémathèque française]] from [[June 18]] to [[July 31]].+
-*[[Theanyspacewhatever]]+
-*[[Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit]] +
===Music=== ===Music===
-*''[[Everything That Happens Will Happen Today]]''+====Singles====
-*"[[Everyone Nose]]"+*[[Blind (Hercules and Love Affair song)|Blind]] by Hercules and Love Affair
-*"[[Paper Planes (song)]]"+*[[Everyone Nose]] by N*E*R*D
-* [[Best of 2008]]+*[[Paper Planes (song)|Paper Planes]] by M.I.A.
 +*[[Gold Dust (DJ Fresh song)|Gold Dust]] by DJ Fresh
 +*[[American Boy]] by Estelle
 +*[[Strange Overtones]] by David Byrne
 +*[[Toe Jam]] by Fatboy Slim, Dizzee Rascal and David Byrne
 +*[[Sweet About Me]] by Gabriella Cilmi
 +*[[C'est Beau la Bourgeoisie]] by Discobitch
 +*[[Konijntje]] by Willie Wartaal
 +*[[I'll Kill Her]] by Soko
 +*[[Corporate Cannibal]] by Grace Jones
 +*[[Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)]]
 + 
 +====Albums====
 +*''[[Everything That Happens Will Happen Today]]'' by David Byrne and Brian Eno
 +====Writing====
 +*''[[The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present]]''
===Literature=== ===Literature===
-*''[[Hermans-Reve correspondence]]'' +*''[[Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex]]'' by Mary Roach
 +*[[Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror']], issue of journal of contemporary philosophy
 +*''[[Feuchtgebiete]]'' by [[Charlotte Roche]]
=== Film === === Film ===
-*''[[WALL-E]]'' +*''[[WALL-E]]'' by Disney
-*''[[Be Kind Rewind]]''+*''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'' by Michel Gondry
-*''[[Funny Games (2008 film)]]''+*''[[Moscow, Belgium]]'' by Christophe Van Rompaey
 +*''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' by Ben Stiller
 +====Video====
 +*[[Pete the Meat Puppet]]
 +=== Visual art ===
 +*[[Dadameter]]
-=== Expected films and books === 
-* A film adaptation[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409379/] of [[Thérèse Raquin]] by [[Charlie Stratton]] is expected in 2008. ... 
-* ''[[Bathory (2008 film)|Bathory]]'' ([[Juraj Jakubisko]]) 
-*''[[Hippie Hippie Shake (film)|Hippie Hippie Shake]]'', a film based on [[Richard Neville]]'s memoir 
-*''[[Ways of Hearing]]'' by [[David Toop]]. 
- 
-== Births == 
==Deaths== ==Deaths==
:''[[Deaths in 2008]]'' :''[[Deaths in 2008]]''
-:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2008 Deaths_in_2008]+ 
-* [[January 10]] - [[Maila Nurmi]], Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. [[1921]])+
-* [[January 17]] - [[Bobby Fischer]], American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. [[1943]])+
-* [[January 22]] - [[Heath Ledger]], Australian actor (b. [[1979]])+
-* [[February 10]] - [[Roy Scheider]], American actor (b. [[1932]])+
-* [[February 13]] - [[Henri Salvador]], French singer (b. [[1917]])+
-*[[February 18]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], French writer and filmmaker (b. [[1922]])+
-*February 18 - [[Teo Macero]], American record producer+
-*[[February 21]] - [[Joe Gibbs]], Jamaican record producer+
-*[[March 15]] - [[Mikey Dread]], Jamaican singer+
-*[[March 19]] - Sir [[Arthur C. Clarke]], English science fiction author and inventor (b. [[1917]])+
-* March 19 - [[Hugo Claus]], Belgian Writer (b. [[1929]])+
-*[[March 21]] - [[Klaus Dinger]], 61, [[German]] [[musician]] of [[Neu!]] (b. [[1946]])+
-*[[March 24]] - [[Rafael Azcona]], 81, [[Spain|Spanish]] [[scriptwriter]] (b. [[1926]])+
-*[[April 5]] - [[Charlton Heston]], 84, [[United States|American]] actor+
-*[[April 15]] - [[Hazel Court]], 82, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[actor|actress]] ''([[The Masque of the Red Death (film)|The Masque of the Red Death]], [[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]])'', [[heart attack]]. +
-*[[April 17]] - [[Aimé Césaire]], 94, [[France|French]] [[Martinique|Martiniquan]] [[poet]] and [[politician]].+
-*[[April 20]] - [[Louis and Bebe Barron|Bebe Barron]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[composer]], pioneer of [[electronic music]]. +
-*[[April 29]] - [[Albert Hofmann]], 102, [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[research]]er, [[chemist]] and discoverer of [[LSD]].+
-*[[May 12]] - [[Robert Rauschenberg]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[pop artist]]. +
-*[[May 13]] - [[John Phillip Law]], 70, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] (''[[Barbarella]]''). +
-*[[May 23]] - [[Cornell Capa]], 90, [[United States|American]] [[photography|photographer]]. +
-*[[May 26]] - [[Sydney Pollack]], 73, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and [[film director]], [[cancer]]. +
-*[[May 29]] - [[Harvey Korman]], 81, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and [[comedian]] (''[[Blazing Saddles]]''). +
-*[[June 1]] - [[Yves Saint-Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint-Laurent]], 71, [[France|French]] [[fashion designer]]+
-*[[June 2]] - [[Bo Diddley]], 79, [[United States|American]] [[Rock and roll|rock and roll]] and [[Blues|blues]] [[singer]], [[songwriter]], and [[guitarist]]. +
-*June 2 - [[Mel Ferrer]], 90, [[United States|American]] [[actor]], [[film director]] and [[film producer|producer]]. +
-*[[June 7]] - [[Dino Risi]], 91, [[Italy|Italian]] [[film director]] (''[[Il Sorpasso]]'', ''[[Profumo di donna]]''), [[death by natural causes|natural causes]]. +
-*[[July 4]] - [[Thomas M. Disch]], 68, [[United States|American]] [[science fiction author]] (''[[Camp Concentration]]'', ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]''), [[suicide]].+
-*[[July 6]] - [[Bobby Durham (Jazz musician)|Bobby Durham]], 71, [[United States|American]] [[jazz drumming|jazz drummer]].+
-*[[July 7]] - [[Bruce Conner]], 74, [[United States|American]] [[artist]], [[natural causes]].+
-*'''July 7''' - [[Hugh Mendl]], 88, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[record producer]].+
-*'''July 7''' - [[Dorian Leigh]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[Model (person)|model]]. +
-*[[July 14]] - [[Björn Berg]], 84, [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[graphic artist]], [[illustrator]] of [[Astrid Lindgren]]'s books. +
-*[[August 10]] - [[Isaac Hayes]], 65, [[United States|American]] [[Soul Music|soul]] and [[funk]] [[musician]], [[actor]] (''[[South Park]]''), [[stroke]]. +
-*[[August 15]] - [[Jerry Wexler]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[record producer]], [[heart failure]]. +
-*[[August 17]] - [[Manny Farber]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[film critic]] and [[painter]]. +
-*[[August 31]] - [[Jean-Marie Berckmans]], 54, [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[writer]], [[lung disease]].+
-*[[September 1]] - [[Don LaFontaine]], 68, [[United States|American]] [[voice acting|voice-over artist]]+
-*[[September 4]] -[[Alain Jacquet]], 69, [[France|French]] [[Pop art|pop artist]], [[cancer]].+
-*[[September 5]] - [[Robert Giroux]], 94, [[United States|American]] [[editor]] and [[publisher]] ([[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]). +
-*[[September 8]] - [[Hector Zazou]], 60, [[France|French]] [[composer]] and [[record producer]]. +
-*[[September 12]] - [[David Foster Wallace]], 46, [[United States|American]] [[author]] and [[essay]]ist, [[suicide]] by [[hanging]]. +
-*[[September 12]] - [[Norman Whitfield]], 65, [[United States|American]] [[Motown]] [[songwriter]] ("[[I Heard It Through the Grapevine]]"), [[diabetes]].+
-*[[September 17]] - [[James Crumley]], 68, [[United States|American]] [[crime writer]]. +
-*[[September 18]] - [[Mauricio Kagel]], 76, [[Argentina|Argentinian]] [[composer]]. +
-*[[September 19]] - [[Jun Ichikawa]], 59, [[Japan]]ese [[film director]]. +
-*[[September 26]] - [[Paul Newman]], 83, [[United States|American]] [[Academy Award]]-winning [[actor]] and [[philanthropist]], [[cancer]]. +
-*[[September 26]] - [[Marc Moulin]], 66, [[Belgian]] [[musician]], [[cancer]].+
-*[[October 11]] - [[Alton Ellis]], 68, [[Jamaica]]n singer, [[lymphatic cancer]]. +
-*[[October 11]] - [[William Claxton (photographer)|William Claxton]], 80, [[United States|American]] [[photographer]], complications of [[congestive heart failure]]. +
-*[[October 17]] - [[Levi Stubbs]], 72, [[United States|American]] [[vocalist]] ([[The Four Tops]]), complications of [[cancer]] and [[stroke]].+
-*[[October 25]] - [[Gerard Damiano]], 80, [[United States|American]] [[pornographic film|adult film]] [[film director|director]] (''[[Deep Throat (film)|Deep Throat]]''), [[stroke]].+
-*[[November 1]] - [[Yma Sumac]], 86, [[Peru]]vian [[soprano]], [[cancer]].+
-*[[November 4]] - [[Byron Lee]], 73, [[Jamaica]]n [[musician]] and [[record producer]], [[bladder cancer]]. +
-*[[November 9]] - [[Miriam Makeba]], 76, [[South Africa]]n [[singer]], [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. +
-*[[Mitch Mitchell]], 61, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[drummer]] ([[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]), [[natural causes]].+
-* [[François Caradec]], 84, [[France|French]] [[writer]], member of [[Oulipo]] and Collège de [[’Pataphysics|'pataphysique]].+
-*[[Guy Peellaert]] 74, [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[painting|painter]], [[illustrator]] and [[photographer]].+
-*[[Jørn Utzon]], 90, [[Denmark|Danish]] [[architect]] ([[Sydney Opera House]]), [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. +
-*[[Odetta]], 77, [[United States|American]] [[folk singer]] and [[human rights activist]], [[heart disease]]. +
-*[[Sunny von Bülow]], 76, [[United States|American]] [[heiress]], [[cardiopulmonary arrest]]. +
-*[[Forrest J Ackerman]], 92, [[United States|American]] [[science fiction fandom|science fiction expert]], [[heart failure]].+
-*[[George Brecht]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[artist]] ([[Fluxus]]), [[Death by natural causes|natural causes]]. +
-*[[December 11]] - [[Bettie Page]], 85, [[United States|American]] [[pin-up girl]], complications from a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]].+
-*[[Harold Pinter]], 78, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]], recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] (2005), [[liver cancer]].+
-*[[Eartha Kitt]], 81, [[United States|American]] [[singer]] and [[actor|actress]], [[colon cancer]].+
-*[[Ann Savage (actress)|Ann Savage]], 87, [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] (''[[Detour (1945 film)|Detour]]''), complications following a series of [[strokes]].+
-*[[Freddie Hubbard]], 70, [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[trumpeter]], complications of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]].+
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