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Important Events in the Arts, 1960–1969

1960

  • 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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