Arnaldo Pomodoro taught at Stanford University in California in 1966. In 1967 he was represented in the Italian Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal, and he received a prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. In 1968 he taught at the University of California at Berkeley; in 1970 he returned to Berkeley to attend the opening of an exhibition of his work that originated there and later travelled in the United States. During the late 1960s and early 1970s he executed commissions for outdoor sculpture in Darmstadt, New York, and Milan. Pomodoro lives and works in Milan. Flaminio Gualdoni is Director of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro. He has taught art history at the Accademia di Brera of Milan since 1980. He is a regular contributor to the Corriere della Sera and RadioRAI. He is the author of Arte italiana del Novecento (1999) and Arte in Italia 1943-1999 (2000).