Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a
land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses New
York s master builder brought the World s Fair to the Big Apple for
1964 and 65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65
World s Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to
pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to
violent crime.
In an epic narrative, "Tomorrow-Land "shows the astonishing
pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the
fair. It fetched Disney s empire from California and Michelangelo s
"La Pieta" from Europe and displayed flickers of innovation from
Ford, GM, and NASA from undersea and outer-space colonies to
personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol
(until Governor Rockefeller had it removed) and lured Ken Kesey and
the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the fair and its house band, Guy
Lombardo and his Royal Canadians sat in the musical shadows of the
Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock and roll right there in
Queens. And as southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and
violent protests also occurred in and around the fair, Harlem-based
Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial
conflict.
World s Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures,
nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent,
Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964/65 fair
was truly exceptional.
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