1960
*Clause Oldenburg,
The Street
*Andy Warhol,
Dick Tracy
*Yves Klein, anthropometries
*Pierre Restany,
New Realist Manifesto
1961
*The Art of Assemblage exhib, MOMA
*Clement Greenberg
publishes Art and Culture
*Claes Oldenburg
The Store
*Fluxus
Group formed
*John F.Kennedy elected President of US
*Berlin Wall constracted
*Yuri Gagarin first man in space
1962
*Warhol paints Mariyn Monroe and Campbell's
Soup canc;
first major exhib, LA
*Edward Ruscha,
Twenty-six Gasoline Stations
*Death of Yves Klein
1963
*Assassination of President Kennedy
*Duchamp retrospective,
Passadena
*Towards a New Abstraction
exhib, LA
*Death of Piero Manzoni
1964
*Post-painterly Abstraction
exhib, LA
*Venice Biennale -
Rauschenberg awarded first prize
*Carolee Schneeman,
Meat Joy, NY
1965
*Warhol retrospective,
Pensylvania, US
*Beuys, Twenty-Four Hours,
Wuppertal, Germany
*National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) founded, US
1966
*Primary Structures exhib,
Jewish
Museum, NY
1967
*Marshall McLuhan (+),
The Medium is the Message
*Che Guevara killed in Bolivia
1968
*Death of Marcel Duchamp
*Assassination of Martin Luther King
*Les Evenements - students rioting in Paris
1969
*Arte Povera, term coined by Germano
Celant
*Anti-Illusion: Procedures/ Materials exhib, Whitney Museum, NY
*When Attitudes Become Form exhib, Bern, Krefeld and London
*Nine at Castelli exhib. org. by Robert Morris, NY
*First issue of Art-Language
*Stonewall gay riot, NY |
1970
*Information exhib, MOMA
*Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great
Salt Lake, Utah
1971
*Contemporary Black Artists in America exhib, Whitnei
Museum, NY
1972
*Documenta V: Individual Myths - Parallel
Picture Worlds , Kassel
1973
*Salvador Allende overthrown in Chile
1976
*Women Artists: 1550-1950 exhib, LA County Museum of Art
1977
*Walter de Maria, Lighting Field, New
Mexico
*Documenta VI: Art and
Media, Kassel
*Opening of the Cenre Georges Pompidou, Paris
*First Sculpture Projekt exhib, Munster
1978
*Bad Painting exhib, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
1979
*Joseph Beuys retrospective exhib, Guggenheim
Museum, NY
*Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
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1981
*A New Spirit in Painting exhib, Royal
Academy of Arts, London
1982
*Transavanguardia exhib, Galleria
Civica, Modena
*Zeitgeist exhib, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
*Documenta VII (curated by Rudi H. Fuchs),
Kassel
*First Carnegie
International exhib, Pittsburg
*Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1983
*Mary Kelly publishes Post Partum Document
1984
*"Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and
the Cultural exhib, MOMA
*Saatchi
Gallery opens, London
1985
*Gorbachev comes to power in the USSR - beginning of perestroika
*Discovery of AIDS virus, France/USA
1986
*Silence=Death, AIDS activist protect
*Chambres d'Amis exhib, Ghent, curated by Jan Hoet
*Death of Joseph Beuys
1987
*BerlinArt 1961-1987 exhib, MOMA, NY
*Documenta VIII, Kassel
*ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power founded, NY
*Second Skulptur Projekt exhib, Munster
*Death of Andy Warhol
1988
*Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-88 exhib, Guggenheim
Museum, NY
*Venice
Biennale,
Aperto 88
*Freeze exhib, London
1989
*The Berlin Wall comes down
*Magiciens de la Terre exhib, Paris
*Forest of Signs exhib, LA Museum of Contemporary Art
*Robert Mapplethorpe: The
Perfect Moment exhib, Washington, DC
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1990
*Germany reunited
*Die Endlichkeit der Freiheit (The Finitude of Freedom) exhib, Berlin
*Collapse of the USSR
*The Koln Show exhib, Cologne
*Lucy Lippard publishes Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multi-Cultural America
1991
*Metropolis exhib, Martin-Groupius-Bau, Berlin
*Carnegie
International exhib, Pittsburg
*Dislocations exhib, MOMA, NY
*Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art exhib, Serpentine
Gallery, London
1992
*Post Human exhib by Jeffrey Deitch,Lausanne, Turin, Athens, Hamburg
*Double Take exhib, The South Bank Centre, London
*Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s exhib, LA
1993
*Biennial Exhib, Whitney Museum, NY
*Eva Hesse retrospective, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
1994
*Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky exhib, Guggenheim
Museum, NY
1995
*Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century exhib, Tate
Gallery, London
*Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965-1975 exhib, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
1996
*Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, L'informe - mode d'emploi exhib, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris
*NowHere exhib, Louisiana Arts Centre, Denmark
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