How Japanese female artists helped to expand Fluxus

New York exhibition showcases contributions of Yoko Ono and other avant-garde pioneers

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Takako Saito, “Sound Chess” (circa 1977), wood chessboard with 32 wood pieces containing sound-making materials. (Photo courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, 2008, via Japan Society Gallery)

EDWARD M. GOMEZ, Contributing writer

NEW YORK -- From the early 1960s through the late 1970s, Fluxus was one of the most unpredictable, humor-filled and, in some ways, deeply humanistic explosions of innovative thinking and provocative action in modern art's rich, multifaceted history.

On view through Jan. 21, the exhibition "Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus" at the Japan Society Gallery in New York focuses on the contributions of four female art-makers from Japan -- Shigeko Kubota, Yoko Ono, Takako Saito and Mieko Shiomi -- to the whimsy and worldview of an international phenomenon that did not regard itself as a movement, style or artistic school.

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