1960s

September 11, 2017
Sculptor, conceptual artist, and stage designer Pino Pascali died in a motorcycle accident in Rome on 11 September 1968.

March 5, 2017
Poet, translator, painter, novelist, actor, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was born 5 March 1922 in Bologna.

August 17, 2015
Ugo Carrega – leading figure of the 1960s Visual Poetry movement in Milan – was born on this day in 1935.

September 11, 2014
La vedova blu , 1968, Acrylic on wood structure.

September 7, 2013
Italo-Argentine artist Lucio Fontana died on this day in 1968.