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Takako Saito Made Fluxus Fun
“I don’t want people to be an audience,” the artist explained in a 2014 interview, “I want everybody to be participants. Everybody involved!”
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For Shigeko Kubota, Video Lived in the Moment of Its Transmission
The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective exhibition Liquid Reality showcases how Kubota turned video art into sculpture.
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See Glorious, Unusual Pianos Made by Carolee Schneemann, Nam June Paik, and Other Artists
At the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, performers will activate remarkable pianos inspired by John Cage and commissioned by Italian collector Francesco Conz.
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Artists Honor Yoko Ono at a Fluxus Festival
The Getty Research Institute, in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has embarked on a year-long program to historicize the movement and recreate seminal performances and installations.
Books
Dick Higgins: Avant Garde Provocateur and Philosopher
Higgins was a participant observer of outrageous innovations in art, music, poetry, performance, and independent publishing for decades beginning in the 1960s.
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The Sensuous Immersion of Fluxus Sound Art
FluZUsic/FLUXUS MUSIC at Bob Rauschenberg Gallery is a sweeping, interactive presentation of artwork, instruments, and compositions.
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A Radical Artist’s Journey from Fluxus to Full-On Commercialism
A retrospective devoted to pioneering Fluxus artist Ben Vautier tracks his evolution from a radical thinker and early conceptual artist to salable brand name.
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On Not Forgetting Fluxus Artist Benjamin Patterson
It’s September 11, 2001, and a group of Fluxus artists has convened in Odense, Denmark.
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The Handmade Horns and Drone Music of a Fluxus Composer
“The performance is about 70 minutes long,” said 72-year-old composer Yoshi Wada, introducing his iconic “Earth Horns with Electronic Drone” at Soho's Emily Harvey Foundation.
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Yoko Ono Finally Gets the Solo She Deserves
When Beatle John Lennon, artist Yoko Ono’s third husband, was shot and killed in 1980, Ono went into deep mourning.
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Dieter Roth’s Chaotic and Cacophonous Gesamtkunstwerk
BERLIN — The exhibition And away with the minutes spins like a rococo confection around the prolific noise music projects of the legendary and influential German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth.
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Yoko Ono's 'Morning Peace' Turns Dawn into a Work of Art
LOS ANGELES — It was still dark when I set off on the uncrowded freeway, the few other people on the road either partiers coming home late or workers on their way to the early shift.