The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 kmÂ²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Many of the best-known musicians of the time appeared during the rainy weekend, captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock.
Andrew William Mellon (1855â1937), one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries in history and also the namesake of Washington, D.C.'s Andrew Mellon Building and Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
Hence the interest of John Boardman's The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity, which reprints and fully illustrates the 1993 A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, given at the National Gallery of Art. Boardman, an authority on the ancient world, is Lincoln Professor of Archeology and Art at Oxford.