Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N. Central Ave.
L.A.,CA





Price:

Box Office: 213-626-6222
If an artist makes art intended to function outside the confines of an art museum, does it make sense for an art museum to present a retrospective exhibition of that artist's work? That's the peculiar question encountered at this 50-year survey of work by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006), best known for initiating Happenings in 1959, a performance-based art with disposable elements of collage and assemblage. The retrospective is more like a thorough archival display than a typical art exhibition. But Kaprow's audience-participation Happenings were instrumental: They helped kick off art's post-subjective era, which has been dominant for half a century (C.K.).