A Guggenheim exhibition shines a light on a remarkable but lesser-known art scene in South Korea that thrived in the tumult of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tag: Nineteen Hundred Sixties
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Tracing the March on Washington Back to Where It Began, in Harlem
Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.
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Brice Marden, Who Rejuvenated Painting in the 1960s, Dies at 84
When conceptual art, Pop Art and minimalist sculpture were in the ascendancy and many were saying that painting was dead, Mr. Marden issued a powerful counterstatement.
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More Public Pools Could Save Thousands of Lives
The biggest reason so many Americans can’t swim is that they have too few places to learn how.
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Astrud Gilberto, Who Sang ‘The Girl From Ipanema,’ Dies at 83
It was the first song she ever recorded, and it played a key role in making the Brazilian sound known as bossa nova a phenomenon in the United States.