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[October 13 2014] : Television
Doug Aitken TV Takeover – Allan Kaprow / How to Make a Happening by Mass Art Inc.
Allan Kaprow is the Atlantic City, New Jersey-born, New York University and Columbia-educated painter and performance artist who created (and named) Happenings. In his 1966 album How To Make A Happening he states: “Forget all the standard art forms. Don’t paint pictures. Don’t make poetry. Don’t build architecture. Don’t arrange dances. Don’t write plays. Don’t compose music. Don’t make movies, and above all don’t think you’ll get a Happening by putting all these together.” Kaprow hosted 200 Happenings throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Read the full text from the album here.
The album has a silkscreened cover with a photo from Allan Kaprow’s happening “Household”, Cornell University, 1964
