Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life
April 16, 2011, through August 07, 2011
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life installed in the Hood Museum's Jaffe and Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life installed in the Hood Museum's Jaffe and Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life installed in the Hood Museum's Jaffe and Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life installed in the Hood Museum's Jaffe and Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life installed in the Hood Museum's Jaffe and Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
Location
Temporary Exhibitions, Jaffe and Hall Galleries
About
This traveling exhibition and publication are drawn from the Hood Museum of Art’s George Maciunas Memorial Collection of works by Fluxus artists, enriched with loans from the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University, and the Walker Art Center. Intended to provide a fresh assessment of Fluxus, the installation is designed to encourage experiential encounters for the visitor. The 1960s–70s phenomenon that was Fluxus resists characterization as an art movement, collective, or group, and it further defies traditional geographical, chronological, and medium-based approaches. The fundamental question—“What’s Fluxus good for?”—in fact has important implications for the role of art today. The function of Fluxus artworks is to help us practice life; what we “learn” from Fluxus is how to be ourselves.
Organized by the Hood Museum of Art and generously supported by Constance and Walter Burke, Class of 1944, the Ray Winfield Smith 1918 Fund, and the Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund.
Exhibition Curator
Jacquelynn Baas | Juliette Bianco
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