Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But the two-the old humanism and the young's denial-may yet fuse. How? The Paris Biennale offers only the most tantalizing hints. This looks like the beginning of the decade of the art group: from the U.S., from France, from Cuba, Canada, Eastern Europe, well over half...
> Artist Jean Tinguely at the Museum of Modern Art demonstrates a machine that destroyed itself, a happening that introduces conceptual, nonbuyable art, 1960.
> The Metropolitan Museum buys Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for $2,300,000 at public auction, 1961.
> Op art gets the seal of critical approval with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art, 1965.
> The temples of Abu Simbel are saved from the encroaching waters of the Nile's Aswan High Dam, 1966.