Kultur i 1990 er ei oversikt over hendingar, fødde og døde personlegdomar innan kulturlivet i 1990.
Hendingar 15. september: Opninga av svensk TV4.
Årets store musikkskandale var avsløringa av at dei to Milli Vanilli-medlemmen, Robert Pilatus og Fabrice Morven, verken hadde spelt eller sunge ein tone på si eiga grammy-belønte plate.
Døde 15. april: Greta Garbo, svensk-amerikansk filmskodespelar 2. juni: Rex Harrison, britisk skodespelar 26. september: Alberto Moravia, italiensk forfattar 23. november: Roald Dahl, britisk forfattar
Filmutgjevingar Home Alone An Angel At My Table Back to the Future Part III Dances with Wolves Den hemliga vännen Die Hard 2: Die Harder Dick Tracy Edward Scissorhands En ängel vid mitt bord Ghost Godfather III The Hunt for Red October Night of the Living Dead Pretty Woman Total Recall
Litteraturutgjevingar
Utlandet
Noreg Carl Fredrik Engelstad: Fortid og nærhet, essaysamling Knut Faldbakken: Evig din, roman Tore Hamsun: Efter år og dag, sjølvbiografi Arvid Hanssen: Fader armod, roman
Musikkutgjevingar Singlar Utanlandske Ainbusk Singers: Lassie Alannah Myles: Black Velvet The B-52's: Love Shack Depeche Mode: Policy of Truth Gary Moore: Still got the Blues (For You) George Michael: Freedom Janet Jackson: Escapade Jon Bon Jovi: Blaze of Glory Kylie Minogue: Better the Devil You Know Londonbeat: I've Been Thinking About You Madonna: Vogue Michael Bolton: How Am I Supposed to Live Without You MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This Roxette: It Must Have Been Love Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U Whitney Houston: I'm Your Baby Tonight
Album Norske Dronning Mauds Land: Dronning Mauds Land
Utanlandske AC/DC: The Razor's Edge Anthrax: Persistence Of Time Blind Guardian: Tales From The Twilight World Charlatans: Some Friendly Eric Clapton: Journeyman Creeps: Blue Tomato Chris Isaak: Heart Shaped World Depeche Mode: Violator Duran Duran: Liberty Erasure: Chorus Green Day: 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour Fugazi: 13 Songs Fugazi: Repeater Front Line Assembly: Caustic Grip Whitney Houston: I'm Your Baby Tonight Billy Idol: Charmed Life Iggy Pop: Brick By Brick INXS: X Iron Maiden: No Prayer for the Dying Jane's Addiction: Ritual de lo Habitual Jon Bon Jovi: Blaze of Glory Judas Priest: Painkiller KMFDM: Naïve Led Zeppelin : Led Zeppelin Box Set Living Colour: Time's Up Madonna: The Immaculate Collection Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining Kylie Minogue: Rhythm of Love Gary Moore: Still Got the Blues Morrissey: Bona Drag Mother Love Bone: Apple Mother Love Bone: Stardog Champion Peter Murphy: Deep No Use for a Name: Incognito No Use for a Name: Let 'em Out Sinead O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour Pixies: Bossanova Primus: Frizzle Fry Prong: Beg to Differ Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet Rush: Chronicles The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing Tears for Fears: Sowing the Seeds of Love