American Decades

Important Events in the Arts, 1960–1969

The second annual Photography in the Fine Arts Project is held at the IBM Gallery in New York; it is twice as big and occupies three times as much space as the original.
Leslie Fiedler's controversial Love and Death in the American Novel quickly becomes one of the best-known books in the history of American literary criticism.
Astounding Science Fiction, one of the most popular science-fiction magazines since the 1930s, changes its name to Analog.
Motown Records is formed by Berry Gordy, who intends that this record label will become the "sound of young America."
On January 3, the Moscow State Symphony begins a successful seven-week tour of the United States at Carnegie Hall in New York. It is the first Soviet orchestra to perform in the United States.
In March, seven of the eight major film studios are crippled by an actors' strike.
On March 4,...

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