Art: Top of the Decade: Art

> 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...

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