Sanarchive:Selected anniversaries/February 21
22 February: Major events in the arts
- 1987 – The world of Pop Art mourned the death of Andy Warhol, whose revolutionary work redefined the boundaries between high art and commercial culture.
- 1942 – Acclaimed Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte died by suicide in Brazil, leaving a poignant legacy in 20th-century humanist literature.
- 2015 – The 87th Academy Awards were held at the Dolby Theatre; Birdman won Best Picture, celebrated for its artistic "long-take" visual style.
- Frédéric Chopin (b. 1810)
- Luis Buñuel (b. 1900)
- Drew Barrymore (b. 1975)
- James Russell Lowell (b. 1819)