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1953
 
    
US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven       
1953
 
    
US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938       
1956
 
    
The husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames design a much copied lounge chair and footstool, made of moulded plywood with padded leather cushions       
1962
 
     
Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles        
1965
 
    
An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map       
1968
 
    
US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole       
1976
 
    
Bulgarian-born US artist Christo (Christo Javacheff) constructs a 24-mile Running Fence in California       
1982
 
   
George Segal's bronze monument The Holocaust is unveiled in San Francisco      
1985
 
    
US artist Christo tightly binds Paris's Pont Neuf in fabric, as one of his international series of wrapped iconic buildings       
1988
 
    
Leading New York Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of an overdose