by Jon Lackman | 2 May 2009 | Uncategorized
Laura K. Jones writes in Artnet:
Artnet News can now reveal that the Obama Administration has a definite relationship to the avant-garde Fluxus art movement. Deputy White House Social Secretary Joe Reinstein is married to academic Hannah Higgins, who arrives in D.C. this June from Chicago along with the couple’s daughters Zoe, 13, and Nathalie, nine. Higgins is the daughter of Fluxus movement artists Alison Knowles and the late Dick Higgins, and author of Fluxus Experience, a 2002 history of the ‘60s cultural movement (her latest tome, The Grid Book, is due from MIT Press later this year). She is leaving her job as associate professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago to teach a course on Black Mountain College (home in the 1950s to innovative artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell and Willem and Elaine de Kooning) as a fellow at the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art.
