Fluxus

Music by Alison, performed during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, New York, May 23, 1964

Alison Knowles · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Nivea Cream Piece for Oscar Williams, performed during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962

Alison Knowles · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Fluxus Wallpaper

Yoko Ono, George Maciunas · c. 1973

Museum of Modern Art · Offset wallpaper

Poster for Fluxus Festival/Theatre Compositions/Street Compositions/Exhibits/Electronic Music, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963 and Fluxus Festival, Den Haag, June 28, 1963

Willem de Ridder · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Fluxus Anthology

Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, La Monte Young, Ben Vautier, Wolf…

Museum of Modern Art · 12-inch vinyl record

Construction of European Mail-order Warehouse/Fluxshop

Various Artists, Eric Andersen, Ay-O, George Brecht, Giuseppe Chiari, Congo…

Museum of Modern Art · Painted wood and acrylic structure containing Fluxus…

Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt Fluxus newspaper no. 6

Various Artists · 1965

Museum of Modern Art · Double-sided offset lithograph

Fluxus 1

Various Artists, Ay-O, George Brecht, Congo (a Chimpanzee), Dick Higgins,…

Museum of Modern Art · Book with offset, metal bolts and stamped…

Actions/Agit Pop/Dé-Coll/Age Happening/Events/Anti Art/L'Autrisme/Art Total/Refluxus

Tomas Schmit · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Felt-tip pen on paper

Fluxus Light Box

Robert Watts · 1965

Museum of Modern Art · Wood box with metal push button, plastic,…

Mechanical for page 2 of Fluxus cc fiVe ThReE Fluxus newspaper no. 4, June 1964

Robert Watts · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Cut-and-pasted printed papers and ink on paper

Philip Corner's Piano Activities, performed by Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962

Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins,…

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Philip Corner's Piano Activities, performed by Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962

Philip Corner, Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins,…

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Poster for Actions/Agit Pop/Dé-Coll/Age Happening/Events/Anti Art/L'Autrisme/Art Total/Refluxus, Auditorium Maximum, Aachen, Germany, July 20, 1964

Nam June Paik · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

George Maciunas' In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti, performed during Concert No. 5, Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 8, 1962

Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, Benjamin…

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Fluxus is always 6 a.m.

Nam June Paik · 1976

Museum of Modern Art · Typewriting on paper

Fluxus Island in Décollage Ocean

Nam June Paik · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

Nam June Paik's Fluxus Champion Contest, performed during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 3, 1963

Nam June Paik · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Arabic Numeral (Any Integer) for Henry Flynt, and other simultaneous performances, performed during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 2-3, 1963

La Monte Young, Nam June Paik · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #10 (to Bob Morris) performed by Nam June Paik during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 1–23, 1962

La Monte Young, Nam June Paik · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #10 (to Bob Morris) performed by Nam June Paik during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 1–23, 1962

La Monte Young, Nam June Paik · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #10 (to Bob Morris) performed by Nam June Paik during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 1–23, 1962

La Monte Young, Nam June Paik · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #10 (to Bob Morris) performed by Nam June Paik during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 1–23, 1962

La Monte Young, Nam June Paik · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #10 (to Bob Morris) performed by Nam June Paik during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 1–23, 1962

La Monte Young, Nam June Paik · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #10 (to Bob Morris) performed by Nam June Paik during Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 1–23, 1962

La Monte Young, Nam June Paik · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Poster for Vautier Day / Knížák Night, Fluxus West, various cities, California, May 15–16, 1968

Ken Friedman · 1968

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

Fluxus Zone West / Fluxus West

Joseph Beuys, Ken Friedman · 1971

Museum of Modern Art · Offset postcard

Joseph Beuy's Siberian Symphony, performed during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 2, 1963

Joseph Beuys · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Fluxus Music Instruments Repaired or Recreated for Gilbert Silverman

Joe Jones · 1981

Museum of Modern Art · Ink on transparentized paper over four chromogenic…

Hi Red Center Through Fluxus

Hi Red Center · c. 1966

Museum of Modern Art · Double-sided offset card

George Maciunas' In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti, Version 1 Poem, performed during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962

George Maciunas, Albert Mertz, Arthur Köpcke, Alison Knowles · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

George Maciunas' In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti, performed during Concert No. 5, Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 8, 1962

George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Emmett…

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and Other 4 Dimentional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial and Tactile Art Forms (Incomplete)

George Maciunas · 1973

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

Drawing for Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and other 4 Dimentional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial and Tactile Art Forms (Incomplete)

George Maciunas · c. 1973

Museum of Modern Art · Ballpoint pen on paper

Fluxus 301

George Maciunas · 1967

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph on pressure-sensitive sticker

Fluxus 301

George Maciunas · 1967

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph on pressure-sensitive sticker

Fluxus 3 newspaper eVenTs for the pRicE of $1 Fluxus newspaper no. 7

George Maciunas · 1966

Museum of Modern Art · Double-sided offset lithograph

Fluxus Vaseline sTREet Fluxus newspaper no. 8

George Maciunas · 1966

Museum of Modern Art · Double-sided offset lithograph

Fluxus foldout for Tulane Drama Review 10, no. 2

George Maciunas · 1965

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

Photograph of Fluxus 1

George Maciunas · 1965

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Fluxus cc V TRE Fluxus Fluxus newspaper no. 2

George Maciunas · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Double-sided offset lithograph

Photographic Ballet, produced before Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, Fluxhall, 359 Canal Street, New York, March-May 1964

George Maciunas · 1964, printed 1993

Museum of Modern Art · Nine gelatin silver prints

Products for Fluxus editions

George Maciunas · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Fluxus Manifesto

George Maciunas · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

Fluxus News-Policy Letter, no. 6, April 6, 1963

George Maciunas · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Stencil copy

In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti Version 3 Ballet, performed during Fluxus Festival/Theatre Compositions/Street Compositions/Exhibits/Electronic Music, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963

George Maciunas · 1962, performed 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Drawing for Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and other 4 Dimentional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial and Tactile Art Forms

George Maciunas · n.d.

Museum of Modern Art · Ballpoint pen on paper

A History of Fluxus, Part One

George Brecht · 1974

Museum of Modern Art · Plastic box with typewritten label, containing painted…

George Brecht's Solo for Violin, Viola, Cello, or Contrabass (1962), performed during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, Concert no. 5, Fluxhall, 359 Canal St., New York, April 25, 1964

George Brecht · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

George Brecht's Drip Music (1962), performed by George Maciunas during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 2, 1963

George Brecht · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

George Brecht's Drip Music (1962), performed by George Maciunas during Fluxus Festival, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963

George Brecht · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

George Brecht's Drip Music, performed by Dick Higgins during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962

George Brecht · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

George Brecht's Incidental Music (1961), performed by Karl-Erik Welin during Fluxus International Festspiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, September 1, 1962

George Brecht · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Alphabet Symphony, performed during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962

Emmett Williams · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Emmett Williams' Counting Song and Daniel Spoerri's Hommage à l’Allemagne, performed during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 2, 1963

Emmett Williams, Daniel Spoerri · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

George Brecht's Word Event (1961), performed by Emmett Williams and George Maciunas during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962

Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, George Brecht · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Fluxus Art-Life Chart

Dick Higgins · 1981

Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper

Dick Higgins' Graphis No. 118 (1962), performed during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 3, 1963

Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Tomas Schmit, Bengt…

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Announcement for Concert Fluxus, Teatro La Piccola Commenda, Milan, February 12, 1967

Designer Unidentified · 1967

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress tag with stamped ink additions

Poster for Fluxus Musik og Anti-Musik Det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 23-24; 26-28, 1962

Designer Unidentified · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Who Me Fluxus?

Ben Vautier · c. 1980

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print with correction fluid additions

Lick Piece (1962), performed by Lette Eisenhauer during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, Canal Street, New York, May 9, 1964

Benjamin Patterson, Peter Moore · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Lick Piece (1962), performed during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, Canal Street, New York, May 9, 1964

Benjamin Patterson, Peter Moore · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Lick Piece (1962), performed during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, Canal Street, New York, May 9, 1964

Benjamin Patterson, Peter Moore · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Simultaneous performance of Anima 1, Attache de Ben, and Solo for Violin, performed during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, New York, May 23, 1964

Ben Vautier, Takehisa Kosugi, George Maciunas · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Unused poster for Fluxus Concert

Ben Vautier · c. 1964

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Audience members participating in Paper Piece (1960), performed during Fluxus Festival/Theatre Compositions/Street Compositions/Exhibits/Electronic Music, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963

Benjamin Patterson · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Benjamin Patterson's Paper Piece (1960), performed during Fluxus Festival/Theatre Compositions/Street Compositions/Exhibits/Electronic Music, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963

Benjamin Patterson · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Paper Piece (1960), performed during Fluxus Festival/Theatre Compositions/Street Compositions/Exhibits/Electronic Music, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963

Benjamin Patterson, Oscar van Alphen · 1963

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Tout est Fluxus

Ben Vautier · 1978

Museum of Modern Art · Paint on fabric with grommets and velcro

I Am Fluxus

Ben Vautier · c. 1975–84

Museum of Modern Art · Cut-and-pasted photocopy and letterpress with felt-tip pen…

Fluxus Invites You to Consider Any Theatrical or Musical Show in 1966 as a Fluxus Presentation

Ben Vautier · 1966

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress