1960's The Arts | 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,...