10 Facts About Happenings

Happenings are difficult to describe, in part because each one is unique.

In New York City especially, "Happenings" became quite popular even though many had neither seen nor experienced them.

Happenings can be a form of participatory new media art, emphasizing an interaction between the performer and the audience.

Happenings flourished in New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Happenings was a blind woman with tin-foil covered glasses and cup.

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Happenings emphasize the organic connection between art and its environment.

Happenings's goal was to allow the downtrodden to act out the forces oppressing them in order to mobilize the people into political action.

Allan Kaprow's and other artists of the 1950s and 1960s that performed these Happenings helped put "new media technology developments into context".

The Happenings allowed other artists to create performances that would attract attention to the issue they wanted to portray.

Happenings argues that once artists have been recognized and paid, they surrender to the confinement, rather the tastes of the patrons.