Word: glue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glue. For days the local newspapers had been full of the mock-solemn high jinks that Art Professor Kaprow, Sculptor Charles Frazier and CBS Producer Gordon Hyatt were concocting. The point, explained Kaprow, was to have a plan, but no rehearsal, no separation of audience and spectators. Just pick a theme, arrange the setting, and let things happen. For the Hamptons' Happening, which was to go on for three days, the theme was "Gas," in part because Kaprow & Co. intended to use a lot of helium for balloons...
Laughing gas was what it needed, decided most of the Southampton spectators. "This is a lot of nothing with no glue to hold it together," growled one cop. "Not so," Kaprow smiled benignly. "This game is dream work-the kind kids do." But he did not waste time arguing the point with critics. CBS-TV was filming the Happening, and Kaprow had to bustle his motley throng off for the next event...
...positively gargantuan. She is 82 feet long, 30 feet wide, weighs six tons, is built like a zeppelin of chicken wire, fabric and glue, and is currently lying on her back with knees raised in a gallery of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art. A cross between an amusement park and a return to the womb, She is one of the most uproarious, outrageous-and incredibly popular-exhibits to make its debut in Sweden's capital in years...
...know whether Robert Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it was art. Now they know. If an artist goes on making goats, though, he's hung up." Serra tries to stay loose, and designs his works to last. Says he proudly, "I take great care to glue every feather down...
...they pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue. And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look