While an Assistant Professor of Art History at UCLA during the mid-sixties, Kurt von Meier also had responsibility for organizing and planning exhibitions at the university. This list of exhibition ideas was prepared by Kurt at that time, and in retrospect anticipated the shift of paradigm in the art world from “old masters” and “abstract expressionists” to more contemporary forms and materials. Notably, the gallery opening Kurt organized for an exhibit of sculptures by Harold Paris included a number of ideas on this list: four rock bands playing simultaneously accompanied by a “psychedelic” light show. Hyperlinks to later activities initiated by Kurt related to this list of ideas — planned events or articles in magazines for example — have been added.
