In our December 2007 issue, on the occasion of a traveling retrospective, critic Saul Ostrow parsed O'Doherty's oeuvre, which the artist has produced through five distinct alter egos, most notably Pat…
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 tenth…
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, Kubota, born…
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 room was…
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?