The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MOCA) is founded.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MOCA) is founded.
Paul Taylor Dance Company performs at the ICA with set and costumes by Boston-based artist Alex Katz.
Modern Works is the first survey to examine Roy Lichtenstein’s shift in 1965 from comics and caroons to canonical works of modernist art as sources for his imagery.
Stephen Prokopoff joins the ICA as director, serving in that position until 1982.
The New Museum is founded.
The ICA launches the Open City Youth Program.
Organized by the ICA and the Walker Art Center, Six Themes offers one of the first major retrospectives of the work of Claes Oldenburg, who attends the exhibition and delivers a public lecture.
Photographs, maps, and drawings document Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Ocean Front (1974), their most recent public intervention. The ICA returns to the couple’s oeuvre in 1979, organizing a major survey of their urban projects.
Cambridge sculptor Sydney Rockefeller serves as acting director until the appointment in 1975 of Gabriella Jepson, who serves as director until 1978.
An exhibition observing the rise of postminimalism features work by Ree Morton and Hannah Wilke, among others.
A two-person exhibition pairs paintings by Joan Snyder and Pat Steir.