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).
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
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”.
1971
Founds the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Nearly five years before his death Albers founded a nonprofit foundation that he hoped would further “the revelation and evocation of vision through art”; today it administers the estates of both Josef and Anni Albers.
19 November 1971 – 11 January 1972
First living artist with a solo show at the Met
The exhibition of Albers's paintings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art made him the first living artist to be given a solo show there; it has also been called a retrospective.