For Hollywood, the 1960s were a troubled time, deep into the waning of the Studio System and before the arrival of the more auteur-driven Hollywood New Wave at decade’s end. The spread of television ...
When Dennis Hopper met Brooke Hayward on a Broadway stage in 1961, you wouldn’t have expected the two actors to connect, get married and help shape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles in the ’60s.
A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. By Deborah Solomon ...
The MacNider Art Museum is hosting special guided tours on Saturday, in conjunction with the Winter Dance Party at the Surf Ballroom, to highlight art from the ’50s and ’60s. The “Rockin’ the Art of ...
Model car kit box art from the '60s is one of the most overlooked styles of American illustration—except by hot rodders. The level of model building has never been higher than it is today. The ...
Here in the desert, no era is celebrated more than the midcentury period. The hair, the chairs, the architecture. It was a breakthrough time with many new ideas coming to the fore. Ike was president, ...
A pivotal moment in Andy Warhol’s career occurred 60 years ago this spring, when the artist displayed what would become the very first pieces of the eventually ubiquitous pop art movement — and they ...