Fluxus, Ken Friedman, George Maciunas

OPEN AND SHUT CASE.
1966

A mock legal notice titled "OPEN AND SHUT CASE" clipped to a clipboard, with humorous text and a placeholder for a name.
A mock legal notice titled "OPEN AND SHUT CASE" clipped to a clipboard, with humorous text and a placeholder for a name.

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Date
1966

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithographs mounted on plastic box

Dimensions
Overall: 4 × 4 3/4 × 3/4in. (10.2 × 12.1 × 1.9 cm)

Accession number
94.205.3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Robert and Marilyn Wilson Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/38267

Part of a series:

Fluxus Collection

31 works

Black and white optical illusion with hidden words among patterns of circles.
A collage of 42 vintage portrait stamps labeled "FLUXPOST" with numbers 1 to 42, featuring various men with early 20th-century hairstyles and attire.
Art collage with a fur coat on the left and a partial nude female figure on the right, with "FILIX STATIONFRY" text overlay.
Vintage poster with a strongman flexing, advertising Fluxfest with "12 Big Names" including Philip Glass, at 80 Wooster.
Discarded paper plates with food scraps and trash on the ground.
Open clear plastic case with compartments containing various objects: blue glass pieces, white cubes, dried flower, green crescent shape.
A vintage-looking illustration of a profile of a human head with text above that reads "E.S.P. fluxkit by JAMES RIDDLE." The image is encased in a clear plastic CD jewel case.
A collection of six colored rectangles arranged in two columns on a white background, with a yellow envelope on the right and a set of instructions titled "DOP" on the top left corner. The instructions suggest blindfolding oneself and rubbing fingers over the papers to distinguish colors by touch, attributed to James Riddle. The colors from top to bottom on the left column are gray and yellow, and on the right column are blue, red, and green, with an orange rectangle spanning across both columns at the bottom.
A poster featuring a dense layout of text and graphics related to the Fluxus art movement, with various event descriptions, artistic contributions, and stylized typography. The central graphic spells out "FLUXFEST SALE" in bold, black letters, surrounded by smaller text and images, including circular face designs, musical notation, and abstract shapes.
Halftone pattern on a CD case with text "FLUX NAPKINS BY SHIGEKO KUBOTA" visible through the dots.

Fluxus
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Ken Friedman
2 works in the collection

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George Maciunas
12 works in the collection

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