John Cage

John Cage

male, deceased (1992)
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992) was an American composer. He is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition "4'33",...
Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

male, deceased (2006)
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is credited for...
Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

female, 76 years old
Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 "Ono Yōko (ONO Yōko)", born February 18 1933) is a Japanese-American artist and musician. She gained international fame becau...
Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

male, deceased (1986)
Joseph Beuys was an influential German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s. He is most famous for his ritualistic public performances and...
George Maciunas

George Maciunas

male, deceased (1978)
George Maciunas was a Lithuanian artist who was a founding member of the Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and...
Dick Higgins

Dick Higgins

male, deceased (1998)
Dick Higgins (born Cambridge, England 1938, died Quebec, Canada 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist. Like many of the...
Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell

male, deceased (1998)
Wolf Vostell (october 14 1932 - 3 April 1998) was a German artist after the Second World War. He was born in Leverkusen, Germany and died in 1998...
George Brecht

George Brecht

male, 85 years old
George Brecht (born George MacDiarmid, Halfway, Oregon, United States 1924) is a minimalist artist and composer (although not in the conventional...
Ben Vautier

Ben Vautier

male, 74 years old
Ben Vautier, also known simply as Ben, is a French artist. He lives and works in Nice, where he ran a record shop when he was young. He discovered...
La Monte Young

La Monte Young

male, 74 years old
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14 1935) is an American composer and musician. Young is commonly seen as the first minimalist composer and...