A Long time ago a very nice lady Emily Harvey started a gallery for her Fluxus friends artists. She bought a old building in 1985 from French Fluxus Artist Jean Dupuy on Broadway and decided to show only Fluxus, mail art and performance art. People like;
Olga Adorno, Eric Andersen, Ay-o, Brian Buczak, Philip Corner, Jean Dupuy, Henry Flynt, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Albert Fine, Geoffrey Hendricks, Christer Hennix, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low, Larry Miller, Alain Arias-Misson, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Daniel Spoerri, Berty Skuber, Anne Tardos, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Bob Watts, Emmett Williams, Christian Xatrec, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela.
Now Emily is dead. But the building is still here and curator Christian Xatrec works here in the spirit of fluxus. It has become a foundation, with also a space in Venice.
A few of these artists live in the building now. Nice old artists that did crazy stuff, but no money. And now the best part of this story; The ground floor space is being rented by Guess Jeans (the rent is probably between 30 and 40.000$ a month). Making not only these senior fluxus artists live for free, but also getting a allowance!
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