Top of the Decade

> Artist Jean Tinguely at the Museum of Modern Art demonstrates a machine that destroyed itself, a happening that introduces conceptual, nonbuyable art, 1960.

> The Metropolitan Museum buys Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for $2,300,000 at public auction, 1961.

> Plastic pies, soup cans and comic-strip images by Warhol, Rosenquist, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg crop up in a show at Sidney Janis' Manhattan gallery and pop art arrives, 1962.

> Mexico opens its National Anthropological Museum, 1964.

> Op art gets the seal of critical approval with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art, 1965.

> Minimal sculpture takes over the Whitney annual, 1966.

> The temples of Abu Simbel are saved from the encroaching waters of the Nile's Aswan High Dam, 1966.

> At Montreal's Expo, the U.S. pavilion abjures solemnity in favor of a wildly playful dome by Buckminster Fuller, 1967.

> Pollock (1967), Kline (1968) and De Kooning (1969) all had large-scale retrospectives, tacitly appointing them to the status of modern old masters.

> Boston City Hall, the most dramatic U.S. municipal building ever, opens, 1969.

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