--- The 1960's ---

Minimalists working in New York.

Pop artists turn to popular culture for artistic inspiration

1967 Magritte dies before seeing his completed sculptures.

1970 Robert Smithson creates Spiral Jetty, an environmental artwork on the Great Salt Lake.

1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Castro

1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany

1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of

1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers “I have a dream...” speech at Lincoln Memorial

1963 Pres. J. F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas

1967 Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court Justice sworn in

1969 Neil Armstrong makes first step on the moon