A House That Memorializes a Vanished New York

A Lawrence Weiner text painting across the facade of what was once the Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks’s Manhattan townhouse. 

 

"In October 1976, the artists Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian Buczak met at a SoHo loft party. Hendricks, then 45, was associated with the Fluxus movement, a loose affiliation of 1960s conceptual artists, including Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Yoko Ono, who rejected traditional practices like abstract painting in favor of elaborate performances. Five years earlier, he’d co-starred in a notable one: In the summer of 1971, Hendricks and his wife of 10 years, the artist Nye Ffarrabas (then Bici Forbes), who were both gay, staged a piece called 'Flux Divorce,' which involved taking a chain saw to their marriage bed and dividing the entryway to their home with barbed wire. ..." 

NY Times

Phillip Ward, the executor of the actor and writer Quentin Crisp’s estate, now resides in what was once Hendricks’s children’s room.