In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of both the 28th Republican National Convention (the Goldwater Convention) and the launch of the Beatles' first North American tour.

The Joan Brossa Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) present Els etcèteres (The Etceteras, 1970), the first book of Brossa's visual poetry to be published since his death. The volume is published by the Centre Internationale de Poésie Marseille with support from the Institute of Catalan Letters.

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the National Gallery in London (United Kindom) have bought for € 58,3 million ($72 million) Titian's great masterpiece Diana and Callisto.

The Museum of Modern Art MoMA (New York, USA) presents the exhibition Cindy Sherman, a retrospective tracing the groundbreaking artist’s career from the mid-1970s to the present.

Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography —as well as dance, theater, music, and film— will fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America.