DESTROY
THE
MUSEUMS.
OURSTRUGGLECANNOTBEHUNGONWALLS.A
NEW
SPIRITISRISING.
LIKE
THE
STREETS
OFWATTSWEBURNWITHREVOLUTION...
October
10,1966.
A
handful
of
young
guys
andgirls,havingstalkedupfromNewYork'sLowerEastSidescatteringleaflets
calling
for
the
closureoftheMuseum
of
Modern
Art,
arestoppedJustoutsidethe
Museum
entrance
byawholephalanxof
cops
andcrashbarriers.The
story
hadleaked,andthecops,on
the
ball
asever,hadsensedanewandveryrealtypeofthreatmonthsbeforeanyoneelse:
the
cops
at
least
havegot
it
clearJustwhoseside
Art
Ison...TheDirectoroftheMuseum(largest
collection
of
Dadaintheworld)
out
onthesteps,wringinghishands,almostintears,
only
too
anxious
toplease:
"Why
areyou
doing
this?
Wehaven'tdoneanything..."Thegroup,
unheard
of
before
this,calledBLACKMASK...Next,earlyonemorning,blackbalaclavahoods
pulled
down
to
their
eyes,crackedrictusskullsskeweredonstakes,BLACKMASK,swollento
15,
marched
from
CanalStreet
down
Lower
toWallStreet.Throwawaysreading
Tradersin
stocks
and
bones
shriek
forNewFrontiers...
Bull
markets
of
murder
dealin
a
stock
exchange
at
deafh...
WALL
STREET
ISWARSTREET...
Thecops
andthe
overdressed
corporationerrandboys
plaindumbfounded;the
only
peopletogetreallyuptightwere,
predictablyenough,
alas,a
group
ofstraightproles
who
showedup...Arelativeflop,allin
all.
Too
much
sub-Committee
of
100
stuff
-GrosvenorSquare
=
GenocideSquare,etc.Infactall
BLACKMASK's
earlyexperimentswithProvo-type
tactics
werefarmoretrenchantandoriginal
whenapplied
to
the
culture
scene.
It
wasofficial'experimental'
art
ratherthanofficialleftwing
politics
that
they'd
broken
outof.Andtheyloathedits
guts
...
That
first
yearBLACKMASKseizedeverypossible
opportunity
offuckingupculture.
They
moved
inat
a
moment'snoticeandimprovisedastheywentalong.Theyheckled,
disrupted
and
generally
sabotageddozensof
art
congresses,
lectures,
exhibitions,happenings
...Fora
group
thathailedFuturism
and
DadaasIts
only
forebears
this
typeofshitwas
diametrically
opposedtothepermanent,multi-dimensionalrevolutionisingofimmediate
experience
demandedbyallthehighpointsofmodernart:
See
what
you
canmakewith
a
cathedral
And
a
littledynamite.
Probablytheir
mostnotorious
escapadewasthewreckingofthe3-day
marathon
seminaronModern
Art
sponsoredbytheLoebStudentCentre.HowlsofART
IS
DEAD,BURN
THE
MUSEUMS,BABY,andPOETRY
IS
REVOLUTION.Tableskickedover,
windows
smashed,scufflesbreakingout.LarryRiversroughedupa
bit
inthebestFuturist
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