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The Museum of Conceptual Art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
For a period of 6 weeks, aspects of the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), will be located at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Two rooms will be presented – one, a re-created MOCA environment which invites participation; another is a…
The Montano-Payne Victorian Museum
I declared our house a museum and gave tours as different people, chosen by the person viewing the house. Notices were sent to papers advertising the tours. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
The Lady and the Lamb or the Goat and the Hag
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The Floating Museum Phases I and II
The Floating Museum has no walls. It is an invisible system designed to exhibit works of art that do not fit into the traditional boundaries of museum and gallery situations. The Floating Museum facilitates and encourages artists whose work takes…
The Ephemeral Nature of Madame de Sade
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The Dante Hotel
Lynn Hershman: I think that was the first interesting thing I did. I just set up a hotel room you could go 24 hours a day, any day of the week. You could sign in at the desk, get a key, go up to the room, and trespass into this kind of alien identity…
The Creation, a Seven Day Performance
I lived in the gallery for a week making art actions each day that related to the creation of the world as described in the Bible.(Marioni 1997: 17)
The Ballerina and the Bum
In The Ballerina and the Bum, 1974, a movie that Antin shot on videotape because it was more affordable than film, our romantic young waif of a heroin is, in Antin’s words, “a would-be ballerina from the sticks, who plans to walk across…
The Bag Lady
When I was getting ready to do this piece, I went walking in downtown San Francisco to find a bag lady. I saw a woman in a worn blue coat looking through a vacant lot. I walked over and told her my name, and I said I was looking for a woman who was…
The Artist-President delivers the keynote address for Media Burn
Kennedy appeared in a long black car with an American flag on each fender. Well-groomed men in dark suits trotted alongside. The car stopped behind the bunting-draped speaker’s platform, and the man introduced as Kennedy bounded up the stairs.…