Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 1928 – Hardy Krüger, German actor

* 1928 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor

* 1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so.

* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary

* 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist ( d. 1987 )

* 1928 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player

* 1928 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Camilla Wicks, American concert violinist

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

* 1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer ( d. 1990 )

* 1986 – Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer ( b. 1928 )

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

* 1928 – Cécile Aubry, French actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor ( d. 2012 )

* Friedensreich Hundertwasser ( 1928 – 2000 ): artist and architect

The Whitney was founded in 1931, as an answer to the then newly founded ( 1928 ) Museum of Modern Art's collection of mostly European modernism and its neglect of American Art.

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

" The Treachery of Images 1928 – 29, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Water Tower of Aalsmeer, the Netherlands was completed in 1928 in an Art Deco style.

* Grosse Sonnenblumen, 1928, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

* Donald Covington ( 1928 – 2002 ), former Professor of Design in the Art Department of San Diego State University

Art deco depictions of both the god Ullr ( 1928 ) and Skaði ( 1929 ) appear on covers of the Swedish ski annual På Skidor, both skiing and wielding bows.

To get around the Skil patents, Art Emmons of Porter-Cable invented the direct-drive sidewinder saw in 1928.

* The Carreras Cigarette Factory ( now Greater London House ), a striking Art Deco Egyptian Revival building dating from 1926 to 1928, stands at Mornington Crescent and is distinguished by a pair of-high bronze statues of the Egyptian cat god Bastet.

Terre Haute is home to several arts non-profits, including Wabash Valley Art Spaces and Arts Illiana, as well as the long-running volunteer-based Community Theatre of Terre Haute, which put on its first shows in 1928.

Though the film was not well received, William Cameron Menzies won the first Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1928 for this film and Tempest, though the award was then called " Interior Decoration.

After parting with Epstein, Buñuel worked as film critic for La Gaceta Literaria ( 1927 ) and Les Cahiers d ' Art ( 1928 ).

Its nature and its works ) and Kunst und Rasse ( Art and Race ), the latter published in 1928, in which he argued that only racially pure artists could produce a healthy art which upheld timeless ideals of classical beauty, while racially mixed modern artists produced disordered artworks and monstrous depictions of the human form.

Jean Theodoor Toorop ( 20 December 1858 – 3 March 1928 ), better known as Jan Toorop, was an Indo ( Javanese Dutch ) painter, whose works straddle the space between the Symbolist painters and Art Nouveau.

In 1927 he received the Honorary Empire Prize for German Art and the Gold Medal of the City of Düsseldorf ; the National Gallery in Berlin acquired his painting The Bark and, in 1928, purchased his Self-Portrait in Tuxedo.

* Recordings of Tovey performing on piano were made for the National Gramophonic Society ( NGS-114-117 ) on June 6 and 11, and September 4, 1928, playing Tovey's conjectural completion of Bach's The Art of Fugue, Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A Major BWV1015 ( 1st mvt ), and Beethoven's 10th Violin Sonata in G major, Op.

The Williamson Art Gallery was opened in 1928 and houses a fine collection of paintings, porcelain and pottery.

Other additions to the west were added in 1924 and 1928, and the Seventh Avenue building in 1931, all designed by architect Robert D. Kohn, the newer buildings becoming increasingly Art Deco in style. In 2012, Macy ’ s began the first full renovation of the iconic Herald Square flagship store at a reported cost of $ 400 million.

Arthur Stewart " Art " Farmer ( August 21, 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa – October 4, 1999 ) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

Charles Demuth, Figure 5, 1928, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

It hosted the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in South Philadelphia, and in 1928 opened the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

While a student at Harvard, Porter majored in fine arts, and continued his studies at the Art Students ' League when he moved to New York City in 1928.

* China Academy of Art, the highest university of art in China which founded in 1928

He was also a distinguished orator and after-dinner speaker ; author: Orations and After Dinner Speeches ( 1890 ), Life and Later Speeches ( 1894 ), Orations, Addresses and Speeches ( eight volumes ) ( 1910 ), Speeches and Addresses on the threshold of Eighty ( 1912 ), Addresses and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-two ( 1916 ), Speeches and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-four ( 1918 ), My Memories of Eighty Years and Marching On ( 1922 ); Miscellaneous Speeches on the Threshold of Ninety-two ( 1925 ); contributed a " My Autobiography " in 1922, and an article to the 50th Anniversary Supplement of the Yale Daily News entitled " An Optimistic Survey " in 1928 ; member Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Colonial Wars, Connecticut Society of the Society of the Cincinnati, Holland Society, Huguenot Society, New England Society, France-America Society, New York Historical Society, St. Augustine ( Fla .) Historical Society, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, National Horse Show, Lafayette Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and St. Thomas ' ( Episcopal ) Church, New York ; made life member of Lawyers ' Club of New York in 1918 ; honorary member New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.