Meet Warhol’s Evil Twin: “Pop Goes the Joker”
A gay guy in a fright wig hangs out with a bored rich girl named “Baby Jane.” It’s not Andy Warhol and Jane Holzer but a story arc on the 1960s TV version of Batman. In two episodes that aired in...
View ArticleHow Fluxus Invented Land Art
Are you up for a land art show that includes Yoko Ono and omits Michael Heizer? Well you ought to be. MOCA’s “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974″ is the latest Geffen Building-sized rewriting of art...
View Article“Destroy the Picture” at MOCA
In the standard model of art history, post-war anxiety culminated in the action painting of the New York School. MOCA’s “Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962″ presents a convincing...
View ArticleArtists with Guns, and Toothbrushes
When 1960s artists wanted to document a performance, opening, or happening, they often called Harry Shunk and Janos Kender. The pair photographed about 400 artists in all, assembling a 200,000+ item...
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