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New York's Disastrous 1960 mid-air collision Explained

In 1960, a significant mid-air collision occurred over New York City, involving two commercial airliners. The incident took place on December 16th when United Airlines Flight 826, traveling from ...
Artnet

A New York Installation Honors 1960s Activists Through a Celebrated Photographer’s Lens

Artist Miguel Luciano designed the installation using photographs taken by Hiram Maristany, a Young Lords member. A view of an installation at Metropolitan Hospital ...
insider.si.edu

Alternative histories : New York art spaces, 1960 to 2010 / edited by Lauren Rosati and Mary Anne Staniszewski, Exit Art

Introduction / Lauren Rosati -- On creating alternatives and "alternative histories" / Mary Anne Staniszewski -- On creating the exhibition / Jeanette Ingberman -- Alter the native / Papo Colo -- ...
The Forward

In 1960’s New York, the past was a foreign country — they sure did things differently there

J. Hoberman is one of our best and most prescient cultural critics — and after a dozen or so books, his latest, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground ...
The Nation

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s. Exterior of The Bitter End coffee house, a venue specializing in live acoustic folk music, Greenwich ...
Mashable

How 'A Complete Unknown' turned New Jersey in to 1960s New York City

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PBS

Greenwich Village’s secret folk legends: 7 unsung artists from the 1960s you need to know

Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that ...