Free Rebels in Paradise by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Page B

home as a charity event before being auctioned after his divorce.
    The L.A. County Museum exhibits Six Painters and the Object, organized by Lawrence Alloway—who coined the term “Pop Art”—for the Guggenheim Museum. It features Dine, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and James Rosenquist. The L.A.’s version includes Six More: Bengston, Goode, Hefferton, Ruscha, as well as Thiebaud and Mel Ramos from San Francisco.
    Marcel Duchamp retrospective is held at the Pasadena Art Museum organized by Hopps. Hopps named director in August. Hires James Demetrion as curator and Harold (Hal) Glicksman as assistant and preparator.
    Pasadena Art Museum shows paintings of John McLaughlin.
    The Cinerama Dome Theater, designed by Welton Becket, features a wraparound screen inside a geodesic dome on Sunset Boulevard.
    Tom Wolfe publishes his essay “Kustom Kar Kulture in Southern California: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.”
    Lenny Bruce arrested for obscenity at the Unicorn.
    Death of Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles.
    Ed Moses travels to Europe, 1963–64.
    George Herms directs Moonstone , with Dean Stockwell.
    Wallace Berman makes first Verifax collages.
    Andy Warhol films scenes for Tarzan and Jane Regained … Sort Of.
    1964
    Kienholz joins the Dwan Gallery. Dwan also shows James Rosenquist and Lucas Samaras.
    Ferus shows Studs, with Moses, Irwin, Price, and Bengston, a show that underscores the macho reputations of these artists.
    An exhibition of Post-Painterly Abstraction with a catalog written by critic Clement Greenberg opens at the L.A. County Museum of Art in April. Irwin refuses to participate.
    David Hockney visits Los Angeles. Paints first swimming pool paintings using acrylics. Meets Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, and Nicholas Wilder.
    Founding of Watts Towers Art Center by Noah Purifoy and Sue Welsh.
    Douglas Wheeler makes first light paintings.
    Frank Gehry builds the Danziger house and studio in Hollywood.
    The Beatles’ first concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
    Roger McGuinn forms the Byrds.
    Opening of the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip.
    Death of Rico Lebrun in Los Angeles.
    Dorothy Chandler uses her social and political clout as wife of L.A. Times publisher to develop downtown performing arts complex the Music Center.
    L.A. is second most populous city in the nation. Rapid Transit District is established with little result.
    1965
    The L.A. County Museum of Art opens in April in a modern building designed by William Pereira on Wilshire Boulevard. One of its first shows is New York School: The First Generation—Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, organized by LACMA’s curator of modern art, Maurice Tuchman.
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery opens on North La Cienega Boulevard, giving Bruce Nauman his first solo show. Shows Joe Goode’s staircases leading to blank walls. Hockney lives with Wilder as a roommate and paints his portrait in the swimming pool.
    The Pasadena Art Museum shows Jasper Johns retrospective.
    The Dwan Gallery shows Rauschenberg and Mark di Suvero. Dwan has become such a force in the city that UCLA shows the Virginia Dwan Collection in September.
    Dwan opens gallery in New York, where Ed Kienholz presents The Beanery .
    Ferus shows Richard Pettibone’s miniature copies of paintings and sculptures as seen in the homes of L.A. collectors L. M. Asher, Donald Factor, Dennis Hopper, Ed Janss, Robert Rowan, and Frederick Weisman.
    Artforum magazine relocates from San Francisco into offices above Ferus Gallery.
    Hopps is curator of the American Pavilion of the 8th São Paulo Biennale, September 4 to November 28, and features Bell, Bengston, Irwin, Donald Judd, Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, and Larry Poons. Ruscha is included in the Guggenheim’s exhibition Word/Image .
    Rolf Nelson Gallery gives first solo show to Judy Gerowitz (Chicago).
    Sam Yorty is reelected L.A. mayor; race riots in Watts result in 35 dead, 4,000 arrested,