Allan Kaprow studied at New York University (art at the undergraduate level, philosophy at the graduate) and received his MA from Columbia in art history. He also studied at the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York City and later with John Cage . His teaching career has included faculty positions at Rutgers, Pratt Institute, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the California Institute of the Arts (Associate Dean). visarts.ucsd.edu
As the Happenings moved from its association with Neo-Dada in the late Fifties to Fluxus in the early Sixties, it became clear that Kaprow's idea was also shifting between avant-garde aesthetics on one hand and popular culture on the other. By the late S brooklynrail.org/2006/05/art/allan-kaprow-19272006
Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and l960s as well as their theory. His "Happenings" some 200 of them evo www.askart.com/askart/k/allan_kaprow/allan_kaprow.aspx
A self-described "un-artist," Allan Kaprow championed an artistic practice that moved art out of the museum and into the everyday. His works insistently blurred the boundaries between art and life, requiring active participation rather than passive spect www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/kaprow.html