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Announcement for Jack Goldstein exhibition at the Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, November 1972. © Jack Goldstein Estate. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Riko Mizuno, 2010.M.84.1
On View at the Getty Center: Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics 1950-1980
Best known today for the cool paintings and films from later in his career that comment on media culture, the performance and film screenings that Jack Goldstein prepared for Mizuno Gallery found the artist engaging in simple yet disturbing acts. Of the live performance, Riko Mizuno remembers Goldstein in a coffin. Though Goldstein had already been working with similar ideas, the choice to perform it at Mizuno Gallery only a week after Chris Burden’s Dead Man seems like a sly dig. The still featured in the announcement, meanwhile, relates to his 1971 film A Nail, in which the artist hammers in the titular nail, and then pries it loose with his teeth.
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Video: Making the Scene—find out about the L.A. gallery scene during the postwar years
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Video: Riko Mizuno, Vija Celmins, and Ed Moses speak about the Mizuno Gallery, 2009–11
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Announcement for the exhibition Grup Shrow at Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, 1972. © Riko Mizuno. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Riko Mizuno, 2010.M.84.3
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Announcement for Tom Wudl exhibition at Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, 1974. © Tom Wudl. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Riko Mizuno, 2010.M.84.2
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Poster for Ed Moses exhibition at Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, 1969. Courtesy Mizuno Gallery. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Michael Asher , 2009.M.30
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Announcement for Dead Man performance by Chris Burden at the Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, November 12, 1972. © Chris Burden. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Riko Mizuno, 2010.M.84.4
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Ed Moses with his installation at Mizuno Gallery, 1970. Image courtesy of and © Billy Al Bengston
