On a recent afternoon, Alison Knowles rediscovered two plastic cases in her SoHo studio in Manhattan. Neither case had been opened in decades, so Knowles laid them on a low wood table, and I watched…
A year ago, in a former bank in Brooklyn, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a postmodern fundraiser featuring a “special food performance” by artist Jennifer Rubell. The event was to celebrate the…
Shigeko Kubota, a pioneer of video art and a well-connected Fluxus artist known for using her body to ponder time and space, died from cancer in Manhattan on Thursday at age 77. Today…
In celebration of last week's historic ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court granting Americans the right to same-sex marriage, we present an article by feminist critic Jill Johnston about her Fluxmarriage…
In honor of the Museum of Modern Art’s “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971,” we turn back to Ono’s first exhibition ever, held at AG Gallery, which was run by George Maciunas and Almus Salcius…
One recent afternoon, I was sitting in a room in Yoko Ono’s apartment in the Dakota building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, waiting for her to arrive. The apartment was dark, but this…
Change your life and get a job—this was the startling advice that Fluxus founder George Maciunas gave his fellow artists in 1964. But what did he really mean?
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In galleries, public spaces, and online, artists are orchestrating pieces that can only be completed by you
A starkly empty drawing is the centerpiece of a Museum of Modern Art exhibition that explores John Cage's world-altering role in the creation and development of postmodernism