George Maciunas

George Maciunas was a founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, a collective of artists who radically subverted, revolutionized, and democratized art by breaking down boundaries and cultural norms. Born in Lithuania, Maciunas fled the Red Army in 1944, eventually settling in Long Island with his family in 1948. After studying art, graphic design, architecture, and musicology at Cooper Union, the Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh, and the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU (1949-60) he began to focus his efforts on the Fluxus movement, writing up a manifesto and creating aesthetic and conceptual cohesion across the group’s output. While coordinating the happenings and productions of the Fluxus... more.