The New York Times – Sports:
A Hall of Famer who led the Celtics to 11 championships, he was “the single most devastating force in the history of the game,” his coach Red Auerbach said.
Category: Nineteen Hundred Sixties
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When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad Magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta.” It’s all at the Jewish Museum.
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David Dalton, Rock Writer Who Lived the Scene, Dies at 80
The New York Times – Music:
An early writer for Rolling Stone, he traveled in the same circles as the Beatles, Janis Joplin and other stars, witnessing and documenting a time of cultural transformation.
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Arnold Skolnick, Whose Poster Embodied Woodstock, Dies at 85
The New York Times – Music:
On short notice, he created the bird-on-a-guitar design that advertised the 1969 festival — and became a symbol of the era.
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Ken Knowlton, a Father of Computer Art and Animation, Dies at 91
The New York Times – Film:
His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV.
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Grachan Moncur III, Trombonist Whose Star Shone Briefly, Dies at 85
The New York Times – Music:
He mixed free jazz and post-bop in notable 1960s and ’70s recordings. But he withdrew from the jazz scene, in part because of a dispute over publishing rights.
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The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets
The New York Times – Music:
A new space in Tulsa, Okla., built to display Dylan’s vast archive, celebrates one of the world’s most elusive creators, and gives visitors a close-up look at notebooks and fan mail.
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Catherine Spaak, Darling of Italian Cinema in the ’60s, Dies at 77
The New York Times – Film:
Born in France, she moved to Italy as a teenager and began a long acting career, which extended to Hollywood in the movie “Hotel.”