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1954–1973

Fireplaces and façades with the architect King-lui Wu

Albers created decorative designs for buildings by the Yale professor and architect King-lui Wu: geometric fireplaces for the Rouse (1954) and DuPont (1959) houses, the façade of the Manuscript Society, a Yale secret senior society (1962), and a design for Mt. Bethel Baptist Church (1973).

1965–1967

A MoMA show tours the Americas

Albers's work was in the group show “The Responsive Eye” (1965), and a major Albers exhibition organised by the Museum of Modern Art travelled through South America, Mexico and the United States in 1965–1967.

22 June – 5 July 1968

Oral history interview for the Archives of American Art

In a long oral history interview Albers declared: “Art is not to be looked at. Art is looking at us.”

27. juni 1968 – 6. oktober 1968

Exhibition: 4. documenta

1969–1970

Gives his papers to the Smithsonian

Albers donated his papers, documents from 1929 to 1970, to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

8 December 1969 – 24 February 1970

“The Graphic Constructions” at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art in New York showed the solo exhibition “The Graphic Constructions of Josef Albers”.