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1960

The Insect Trust Gazette

1964

Literature

July 1st, 1964

  • Insect Trust Gazette
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Summer 1964 The Insect Trust Gazette, Philadelphia, 1964. Stapled Wraps.  Poetry Journal. 64mo - up to 3" tall. 63 pp. 1 b/w illustration. Cover illustration by Robert Basara. Issue number one of three installments of this 1960s journal of poetry and avant-garde writing. Contributors include Stewart Paley, Thomas Jackrell, William Levy, Michael Benedikt, Jed Irwin, William Burroughs, Leonard Belasco, Robert Basara, Stuart Gordon, Jackson Mac Low, Brion Gysin, Conrad A. Belano and Carol Bergé. Also included are works by Max Ernst & Paul Eluard, Paul Klee, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud and Jean Genet.
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1960

Columbia Ave Race Riots

1964

Politics

August 28th, 1964

  • Columbia Riot
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August 28 - 31, 1964 23rd Street and Columbia Avenue race riots in Philadelphia; one of the first in the Civil Rights Era. 
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1960

Race Riots

1964

Politics

August 28th, 1964

August 28 – August 30 Late August Race riots start at the intersection of 23rd and Columbia Avenue race riots in Philadelphia a few. 341 injured, 774 people arrested, 225 stores damaged or destroyed. The riots facilitate the rise of Frank Rizzo. A fictionalized version of these events was depicted in the first season of the NBC television series American Dreams.

 
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1960

The Beatles at Convention Hall

1964

Music

September 2nd, 1964

September 2, 1964 Convention Hall, Philadelphia, 7 PM, The Evites, The Bill Black combo, Jackie Deshannon, Beatles Broadcast live on local radio. The Beatles are disgusted by all white audience. Hy Lit paid $25,000 for the Beatles concert to William Morris Agency but lost money because city officials demanded free tickets. 
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1960

Group Zero

1964

Exhibition

September 4th, 1964

September 4 – November 20, 1964* Group Zero, initiated by Otto Piene and Heins Mack shows at the ICA. This is the first large Zero group exhibit in America. Artists include Armando, Pol Bury, Enrico Castellani, Piero Dorazio, Lucia Fontana, Hermann Goepfert, Gotthard Graubner, Hans Haacke, Oskar Holweck, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Lo Savio, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Almir Mavignier, Christian Megert, Henk Peeters, Otto Piene, Uli Pohl, Hans Salentin, Jacobus Schoonhoven, Jesus Raphael Soto, Ferdinand Spindel, Jean Tinguely, Gunther Uecker, Jef Verheyen, and Nanda Vigo. Catalog writing by Piene (curator), foreward by Samuel Adams Green. This is the first ICA exhibit to travel to Europe.
*October 30- December 11, 1964 cited in ICA 50th Anniversary Website
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1960

Dieter Roth, Snow

1964

Exhibition

September 17th, 1964

September 17 – October 14. Dieter Roth, Snow first US exhibition at Philadelphia College of Art. While on a residency Roth produces 6,000 drawings, photographs, and other printed material. Selecting 500 pages of work for a book, the publication is canceled by Eugene Feldman. In 1969, Roth turns this book into an installation with book table and chair, the next year he publishes Snow as the eleventh volume of Roth’s catalog raisonne.

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1960

La Monte Young performance at PCA

1964

Music

October 9th, 1964

October 9, 1964
La Monte Young performance at PCA
POSTER
Prelude to the Tortoise
John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad
First use of amplified string drones
Keith Potter, Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
(La Monte Young, first edition The Anthology 1963)
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1960

Dieter Roth - You Are Invited to an Ending

1964

Exhibition

October 16th, 1964

  • mcwilliams dieterrothposter pca
October 16, 1964, 5 – 7 PM, You Are Invited to an Ending, Dieter Roth invites students and faculty to take any one part of this work (free) that you like” poster collection MoMA
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1960

Dial “Y” for Sculpture, YM & YWHA

1964

Exhibition

October 21st, 1964

October 21 – November 24, 1964, Dial “Y” for Sculpture, YM & YWHA. Artists include Agam, Peter Agostini, Chryssa, Mark DiSuvero, Letty Eisenhauer, Esbenson, Herbert Gesner, Chuck Ginnever, Paul Harris, Robert Indiana, Robert Mallary, George Ortman, Lucas Samaras, Jane Teller, and Harvey Weinrib. 

 
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1960

Nam June Paik at Museum College of Art

1964

Performance

November 6th, 1964

November 6, 1964 Nam June Paik, Various performance pieces Museum College of Art, Philadelphia
Interview mit Gottfried Michael Konig in Magnum Nr. 47 (4/1964, Sondernummer Experimente, Cologne, p 25 – 32, 67
Moving Theatre No. 2; Fluxus Island Map; Half Time in Decoll/age 4 (1964), Cologne
Nam June Paik: Werke 1946 – 1976, Musik-Fluxus-Video, Kolnisher Kunstverein, 1976, p 21
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1960

Ed Bacon on the Cover of Time Magazine

1964

General Culture

November 6th, 1964

  • Ed Bacon
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November 6, 1964 -Ed Bacon on the cover of Time Magazine, “ The City: Under the Knife, or All For their Own Good” 

During his tenure at the City Planning Commission Bacon and his staff conceived and implemented numerous large- and small-scale design ideas that shaped Philadelphia including Penn Center, Market East, Penn's Landing, Society Hill, Independence Mall, and the Far Northeast. The Center City Commuter Connection, a seemingly radical idea at the time, was conceived during the 1950s by Planning Commission staff member, R. Damon Childs, who succeeded Bacon as Executive Director.

Not all of the concepts that Bacon supported materialized. One proposal that he inherited from Robert Mitchell was to encircle Center City with a series of expressways, including the so-called “Crosstown Expressway” (I-695) linking the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) with the Delaware Expressway I-95 via South Street. Three of the four expressways were built; however, the Crosstown Expressway faced significant local opposition and was never built. However, a different expressway was built at Vine Street.

Unintentionally, the Crosstown Expressway proposal depressed property values and rents on South Street, precipitating changes in the neighborhood's character from largely Jewish-owned garment stores into a thriving bohemia. Other concepts conceived during Bacon's tenure, such as Schuylkill River Park included in the 1963 Center City Plan, came into being many years later.

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1960

Blinky Palermo

1964

Painting

December 31st, 1964

Peter Heisterkamp while studying under Joseph Beuys with Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter in Dusseldorf, adopts the pseudonym Blinky Palermo after the Philadelphia gangster and Sonny Liston boxing promoter Frank “Blinky” Palermo. Beuys supposedly said Heisterkamp looked like Palermo when wearing a certain hat. 
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1960

Peale House

1964

Venues

December 31st, 1964

Peale House starts showing regional artists until 1978 when the Morris Gallery at PAFA is established. 
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1960

Crosstown Expressway

1964

City Planning

December 31st, 1964

A preliminary engineering report for the Crosstown Expressway by consulting firm Modjeski and Masters proposes an eight-lane depressed route though South Street. “The Crosstown Expressway will serve as an effective buffer zone separating the proposed redevelopment areas to the north and the incompatible land usages to the south.” This mirrored the Philadelphia City Planning Commission's “Center City Comprehensive Plan,” referring to the Crosstown Expressway as the southern boundary of the central business district. The Crosstown Expressway was to serve as an important traffic artery for the city's planned 1976 Bicentennial celebration.
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1960

Otto Piene at UPenn

1964

General Culture

December 31st, 1964

Otto Piene serves as artist-in-residence at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania replacing Piero Dorazio who is in Europe. Piene is there for four years before going to MIT as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and later its Director.  In the summer 1964, Piene participates in Documenta for the second time. An invitation by Sam Green to show his work results in the first Zero Group exhibit in the United States.
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1960

Hitoshi Nakazato Moves to Philadelphia

1964

Painting

December 31st, 1964

Hitoshi Nakazato moves to Philadelphia to study at Penn. Studies with Dorazio and Ludwig Sander.
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1960

Sam Adams Green becomes the Director of the ICA

1964

General Culture

December 31st, 1964

Sam Adams Green becomes the Director of the ICA. The first exhibit under his directorship is 1943- 1953, the Decisive Years. January 14 - March 1, 1965.  The artists include Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnet Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. Barnet Newman secretly curated the exhibit (Forty Years at the ICA, p 14)
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1960

David Hare teaches 1964

1964

Sculpture

December 31st, 1964

David Hare teaching as Visiting Artist fall 1964. PCA
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1960

Joel Dorn

1964

Music

December 31st, 1964

Joel Dorn produces 4 albums on Atlantic Records
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1960

Dr. Evan H. Turner becomes Director of PMA

1964

Venues

December 31st, 1964

Dr. Evan H. Turner became Director at Philadelphia Museum of Art
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