HAPPENING

an artistic event of a theatrical nature, but usually improvised spontaneously without the framework of a plot. The term originated with the creation and performance in 1959 of Allan Kaprow's "18 Happenings in 6 Parts." This work emphasized various sorts of performances and experiences, including slide projection, dance, and taste and odor sensations. Many examples of the genre required audience participation, and the aesthetic effect produced was a result of the combination of events experienced. Celebrated happenings include Claes Oldenburg's "Store" (1961), "Autobodies" (1963), and "Washes" (1965); Robert Rauschenberg's "Map Room II" (1965); Robert Whitman's "The American Moon" (1960); and Kaprow's own "Calling" (1965).

See RoseLee Goldberg, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1988) and R. E. Haywood, Revolution of the Ordinary: Allen Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings (1993).

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Happenings and Other Acts
Book by Mariellen R. Sandford; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Happening (Art)
...Bemerkungen zu den Happenings and Grundsatz-liches zum Thema Happening (1965b:355...Quest-ce quun happening? Dialogue avec...Parler du happening (1966e); Intervista...collage (1967b); Happenings (1968b); Notes...
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There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence
Book by David Cunningham; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Hate Groups--Government Policy--United States, Intelligence Service--United States, New Left--Government Policy--United States
...San Antonio field office reported that agents would be looking for counterintelligence possibilities to prevent this from happening. 74 Over the next two weeks, San Antonio agents were busy gathering information about SDSs failure to promptly resolve past...
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American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980
Book by Ellen H. Johnson; Westview Press, 1982
Subjects: Art, American--20th Century, Artists As Authors--United States, Happening (Art)--United States
...going to see. If it said "Happening," they were going to see...painting, "Thats a real Happening." It is ridiculous. It...misinterpreting them. I stopped doing Happenings because I felt anyone could...Oldenburg What I do as a "happening" is part of my general concern...
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The Discipline of History and the History of Thought
Book by M. C. Lemon; Routledge, 1995
...subsequent happening for example...are now two happenings linked sequentially...sequentially linked happenings can, precisely...expressed as one happening namely, he...confronted with one happening, he got up...sequence of happenings, he got out...
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Things That Happen Because They Should: A Teleological Approach to Action
Book by Rowland Stout; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Act (Philosophy), Teleology
...constitute it, but should be thought of rather as manifestations of the process happening. The claim that what is happening at any one moment when the process is happening is the whole process not just part of it follows from being able to identify...
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A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry
Journal article by Robert Kirschten; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1998
Subjects: A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews
A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry by Robert Kirschten A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry, by...critical voice that emerges from A Way of Happening is a double persona: a human being, aware...
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English Composition as a Happening
Journal article by Patricia Harkin; Composition Studies, Vol. 31, 2003
...English Composition As a Happening rests on a set of what...like the avant garde; happenings free us from constraints...The alternative is a happening, an event of sorts...cant exactly teach a happening. The best you can...surrounded the sixties happenings." Sirc recuperates...
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Just Because It's Happening Doesn't Mean It's Working - Using Action Research to Improve Practice in Middle Schools
Journal article by H. James Mclaughlin, Carol Watts, Mary Beard; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 82, 2000
Subjects: Educational innovations--Planning, Georgia--Schools, Middle schools--Standards, Teaching--Standards
Just Because Its Happening Doesnt Mean Its Working - Using Action...her consider that "just because its happening doesnt mean its working." This teacher...be a way to learn more about what is happening in classrooms and in other aspects...
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Impossible Things Are Happening Every Day...: Medea/macbeth/cinderella at the Yale Repertory Theater
Journal article by Mark Bly; TheatreForum, 2004
Impossible Things Are Happening Every Day...: Medea/macbeth...Cinderella that "Impossible things are happening every day," and the power of fairy...Natures way of keeping everything from happening all at once." I resisted an impulse...
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What's Happening in Schools for Primary Students with Learning Difficulties in Literacy and Numeracy? A National Survey
Journal article by Mary Rohl, Marion Milton; Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol. 25, 2002
Subjects: Learning disabled--Education, Literacy--Study and teaching, Numeration--Study and teaching
Whats happening in schools for primary students with...relatively broad-based picture of what was happening in schools for primary students with...principals or their nominees about what was happening in their schools at a particular moment...
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Still Happening
Magazine article by Andrew Starner; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Summer 2008
Subjects: Allan Kaprow: Art as Life (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
Still Happening. by Andrew Starner...inventing the term "happening" to describe performances...canvas behind. His happenings--in which multiple...from large-scale happenings to more intimate...essay "Writing the Happening, in which University...
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What's Happening to My School?
Magazine article by Susan Kropa; Arts & Activities, Vol. 128, September 2000
Subjects: Art teachers--Technique, Children's art--Study and teaching, Mural painting and decoration--Technique
WHATS HAPPENING TO MY SCHOOL by Susan Kropa Last summer...attention to the exciting event that was happening right under their noses. Of course they...November with a discussion of what had been happening. By then, the students had seen many...
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What's Happening to Our "talented Tenth?"
Magazine article by M. Rick Turner; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 17, December 7, 2000
Subjects: African Americans, Black culture, Blacks, Colleges & universities, Culture, Education, Higher education, Minority & ethnic groups, Virginia
Whats Happening to Our "talented Tenth?" by M. Rick Turner Whats Happening to Our "Talented Tenth?" As the father of two...in university life also has waned. Why is this happening? I suspect those African American students lack...
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What's Happening to Musicals? Four Histories View That Most American of Theatrical Genres through the Looking-Glass of Craft
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 25, October 2008
Subjects: Broadway theater--Evaluation, Broadway theater--History
Whats Happening to Musicals? Four Histories View That...musical stage. In the end, what was happening in the audience and backstage during...revolutionary and interesting as what was happening in the spotlight, and Wollman has the...
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What's Happening
Magazine article; Drug Topics, Vol. 137, January 25, 1993
Subjects: Manyproducts, Market shares, Nonprescription drugs, Sales, Trends, United States
Whats Happening WHATS HAPPENING The following is a brief summary of whats happening in a few individual categories in the over-the-counter industry. Data, supplied by Fairfield, N.J.-based Kline Co., are based on 1991 retail sales...
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Do Something Different and Save Money with a Happening Pass
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), June 25, 2009
...Something Different and Save Money with a Happening Pass. Theres loads to do in Tees Valley...supplement is your guide to all thats happening, featuring listings and advice on how...Tees Valley with the re-launch of the Happening Pass, featuring brand new offers and...
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Just Not 'Happening'; Shyamalan's Creative Talent Fails to Make a Needed Hit
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 13, 2008
Subjects: Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Shyamalan, M. Night--Criticism and interpretation, Wahlberg, Mark--Criticism and interpretation
Just Not Happening; Shyamalans Creative Talent Fails to...he desperately needs a hit. "The Happening" will not be that hit. Its not that...problem with "M. Night Shyamalans The Happening " is that there isnt enough M. Night...
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New Iraq Drama Isn't Just about What's Happening - It Is What's Happening; Theatre
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 27, 2007
New Iraq Drama Isnt Just about Whats Happening - It Is Whats Happening; Theatre. Byline: BY RICHARD PHILLIPS WHEN Liverpool...caricature or impersonation in the Rory Bremner style, happening - it is whats happening she says. "Its like you...
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What's Happening? Not a Lot as It Turns Out
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), June 15, 2008
Whats Happening? Not a Lot as It Turns Out. AS director...camera and gasps: "Can this really be happening?" The leading man whimpers for us all...and subverted expectations, and The Happening will certainly shock and surprise audiences...
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Catastrophe about to Happen; THE HAPPENING (15, 90 Mins) Thriller. Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Alan Ruck. Director: M Night Shyamalan. **
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), June 13, 2008
Subjects: Wahlberg, Mark
Catastrophe about to Happen; THE HAPPENING (15, 90 Mins) Thriller. Mark Wahlberg...camera and gasps: "Can this really be happening?" The leading man speaks for us all...and subverted expectations, and The Happening will certainly shock and surprise audiences...
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Happening
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HAPPENING an artistic event of a theatrical...1959 of Allan Kaprows "18 Happenings in 6 Parts." This work...experienced. Celebrated happenings include Claes Oldenburg...Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings (1993...
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Plate Tectonics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...often subsides, forming a rift valley similar to what is happening today in the Great Rift Valley through the Red Sea. If rifting...compressional deformation of the continent margin. This is currently happening with the Andes Mts. and is believed to have occurred with...
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Grooms, Red
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GROOMS, RED 1937 , American artist, b. Nashville, Tenn. Grooms was one of the earliest practitioners of the happening . He also worked in other theatrical forms but is best known for his pop art constructions, made of brightly painted wood...
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Mystery
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MYSTERY or mystery story, literary genre in which the cause (or causes) of a mysterious happening, often a crime, is gradually revealed by the hero or heroine; this is accomplished through a mixture of intelligence, ingenuity...
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Brake , in Technology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...after the current to the electric motor has been shut off, the machine keeps the motors armature turning. While this is happening, if the motors action can be changed to that of a generator, the electric current produced will be drawing its energy from...
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