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Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1975

1975

The first exhibition of graffiti art is held at Artist's Space in New York.

A major exhibition of holography is held in New York, prompting Hilton Kramer to categorize the work as "images of a stupefying innocuousness."

Martha Rosler makes the feminist video, Semiotics in the Kitchen.

Saigon falls to communist rule American citizens must evacuate.

The Altair, the first home computer is introduced,

Jimmy Hoffa disappears.