1987
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"I Shop, Therefore I Am" (1987) by Barbara Kruger "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"--Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, Friday, June 12, 1987 |
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1987 is the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.
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Art and culture
Literature
Non-fiction
- Cut 'n' Mix by Dick Hebdige
- The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
- The Secret Museum by Walter Kendrick
Film
- Bagdad Cafe by Percy Adlon
- Bad Taste by Peter Jackson
- Amazon Women on the Moon by Carl Gottlieb and John Landis
- A Taxing Woman by Juzo Itami
- Raising Arizona by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Cherry 2000 by Steve De Jarnatt
- Tin Men by Barry Levinson
- Babette's Feast by Gabriel Axel
- Castaway by Nicolas Roeg
- Angel Heart by Alan Parker
- The Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway
Music
On the night of September 27, the Paradise Garage, the quintessential "Garage" club closes its doors forever. Famed DJ/producer Larry Levan is out of a job. Todd Terry dispenses with vocal narrative altogether on Royal House's "Can You Party," and created a dance classic out of a delirious, near chaotic collage of electronic samples. By releasing "Acid Tracks", Marshall Jefferson, DJ Pierre and Spanky invent acid house and in England Gilles Peterson coins acid jazz at Dingwalls.
Singles
- This Is Stranger Than Love by Mark Stewart and the Maffia
- Push It by Salt-n-Pepa
- Disco Death by Arbeid Adelt!
- You Used To Hold Me by Ralphie Rosario
- Strings of Life by Rythim is Rythim
- Pump Up the Volume by Marrs
- Party People by Todd Terry
- Wax the Van by Lola
- Promised Land by Joe Smooth
- Acid Tracks - Phuture
- This Is Acid - Maurice
- Sexuality by Blake Baxter
- The Sound by Reese & Santonio
- Work It To The Bone by LNR
Albums
- New Jungle Fever by Charlie Feathers
- Paid in Full by Eric B. & Rakim
- Sign o' the Times by Prince
- Pieces for Bandoneon by Evan Lurie
- Time Boom X De Devil Dead by Lee 'Scratch' Perry + Dub Syndicate
Classical
Visual art
- Ends of Bamboo by Andy Goldsworthy
- Piss Christ by Andres Serrano
- The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Dance
- What the Body Does Not Remember by Wim Vandekeybus
Births
Deaths
- Franju (1912 - 1987)
- Dalida (1933 - 1987)
- André Masson (1896 - 1987)
- Douglas Sirk (1897 - 1987)
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
