'Many Kinds of Nothing' provokes a meditative state Oct 5, 2008
Murphy Spicer has also posted instructions around Montserrat for anyone to take, a technique that recalls the tactics of the mid-20th century conceptual art group Fluxus, only less witty and more ponderous. These involve finding a body of water and watching the water's edge; they come across as pedantic. (Boston Globe)
When Butterflies take a Spin Sep 4, 2008
Recently the Fluxus series, the avant-garde art movement of the 60s, toured India only because interest for it is dead and buried in Europe. It had come here only once, not too long ago. (India Times)
Julianne Moore knows how to make them suffer Jun 15, 2008
Although Moore points out that she has played her share of lighthearted characters, singling out the Viking helmet-wearing Fluxus artist from "The Big Lebowski," her signature roles are women stifled by social conventions. As Barbara, Moore epitomizes what "Savage Grace" director Tom Kalin calls "the collision between violence and elegance." Barbara's every action is governed by propriety, but she is far more volatile than most of Moore's long-suffering housewives, her emotions whipsawing like... (Los Angeles Times)
Picking up Three Mistakes... is a big mistake May 18, 2008
The Fluxus art movement took place in the 60s to break free from conventional art. Featured Blog. (CNN-IBN)
10 things to do this weekend Nov 2, 2007
Wander through 13 rooms during "MR. FLUXUS," a show inspired by the 1960s anti-art movement. Nov. 2 and 3, beginning every 15 minutes between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., reservations required. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Galleries: Robert Colescott comes of age, in living color Sep 30, 2007
Foucault's procedure connects his work with the Surrealist lineage of automatism, the chance-enamored strategies of Fluxus and oddities on the fringes of art such as Harold Cohen's computer-generated drawings. But none of that would matter if Foucault's robot drawings did not involve the eye as they do. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A peacenik forever, Yoko Ono's art is coming to UA Jul 3, 2007
A loose association of these artists was eventually formed under the name Fluxus. The group experimented with mixing poetry, music and the visual arts through a wide spectrum of activities, including concerts and exhibitions. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
New lease of life for New Realism at Paris show Jun 3, 2007
Currents of art like Neo-Dada, Gutai, Group Zero, Fluxus or Pop Art entered the cultural scene in Europe and America ... Besides the 30 principal artists of this movement, other works by artists belonging to the Fluxus, Zero and Neo-Dada currents of art like Gunther Uecker or Robert Rauschenberg are also on display. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Pop, trash, kitsch combine artfully at Rose Museum May 11, 2007
Inspired by early 20th-century Dada and the zanily anti-traditionalist art of Fluxus in the '60s, the Swiss conceptualist Armleder (born 1948) has dedicated his career to breaking down the usual boundaries between categories such as art and life, high culture and popular culture. An infectiously insouciant, antiauthoritarian spirit drives his enterprise. (Boston Globe -- Living)
An abundance of insights Apr 29, 2007
There isn't much to recommend the degradation of Fluxus and Conceptual art into pop culture platitudes of wishful thinking. The big exception in Ono's career is "Cut Piece," a fascinating performance first done in Kyoto, Japan, in 1964 and then the following year at New York's Carnegie Hall. (Los Angeles Times)
Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus: Art that bend the mind and play with perception Apr 20, 2007
Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus: Art that bend the mind and play with perception - International Herald Tribune. Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus: Art that bend the mind and play with perception ... CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: 'Flux Clock (Distance traveled in mm)," a timepiece that the artist Per Kirkeby designed around 1969, seems normal enough until you look closely and discover that the usual numbers have been replaced by a sequence from one to 17. Absurdly, it measures not hours and minutes but its own... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Subversively playing with perception Apr 19, 2007
Kirkeby's clock is one of many similarly disconcerting and subversive objects included in "Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus" at Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum. Organized by Jacob Proctor , an assistant curator of prints at the museum, the exhibition sets up an illuminating comparison between the messianic German sculptor, performance artist, and conceptualist Joseph Beuys and Fluxus , the loose, international organization of conceptual tricksters whose informal... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Terrible twosome Feb 13, 2007
When they began, Gilbert e might have wanted to disassociate themselves from conceptualism and from Fluxus, from the grunt'n'grind aesthetics of welded steel sculpture at Saint Martins, and from the amateur naiveties of happenings, the everyday poetics of arte povera and the interminable longueurs of structuralist film-making. But what you reject also informs you. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Upside-Down Critic: Jan 22, 2007
But look at conceptualism seriously -- it was at its biggest and most important a movement of what, five artists and a small flock of grad students, sort of an outgrowth of Fluxus. When you're a secondary growth of a movement nobody's ever heard of, what does that mean. (Slate)
Quietly Puzzling Jan 18, 2007
REVIEW / An artist who finds comfort (and discomfort) in his own shoes. OK, OK, OK" (1990), as if he wanted to expose the sinew of effort itself, the better to know its value. Even the early pieces, watched through, induce in the viewer a corrosive skepticism toward the most routine acts of will. "A Rose Has No Teeth," the brainchild of Constance Lewallen at BAM, contains a few discoveries, such as the very brief, oddly disorienting film, "Uncovering a Sculpture" (1965). It also revisits much of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Big on art: Seoul's major exhibitions for 2007 Jan 2, 2007
Other major exhibitions to be held in the first half of this year include Hangaram Design Museum's special exhibition of Musee d'Orsay in April, Gallery Ssamzie's "Paik Nam-june and his Fluxus friends" scheduled for later this month and two shows on Italian master sculptor Marino Marini (1901-1980) at the National Museum of Art, Deoksugung and at Sun Gallery in February. (glamazon@heraldm. (Korea Herald, Korea)
