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.
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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.
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MoMA’s ‘One Woman Show’: Now, the Ballad of Yoko
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971, an exhibition that opens tomorrow at the Museum of Modern Art, examines in depth the early work and ideas of a well-known, influential Fluxus and multimedia artist.
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Topless but Far From Helpless: Charlotte Moorman’s Avant-Garde Life
So-called revisionist art history has made room for numerous, formerly overlooked or ignored artists in Western Civ’s recognized canon, but what is that establishment narrative to make of a big-boned Southern gal who played avant-garde cello in the nude while submerged in a Plexiglas tank filled with river water?