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Articles are not used:
• Before plural nouns (a dog > dogs)
• before uncountable nouns (news, luggage, information, furniture)
• before abstract nouns (beauty, happiness, fear, hope; ex. Men fear death, but The death of the Prime Minister)
• before names of meals (to have breakfast > to have a good breakfast; the wedding breakfast was delicous; Breakfast was delicious)

the is not used before title + name


• a pavilion curated by artist Cai Guo-Qiang
• Captain Jones was talking to Doctor Black

the + adj

the old = old people in general