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Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Interventions
1995 · Lithograph, offset printed
sheet: 18 1/2 x 12 3/8" (47 x 31.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Jonas Mekas
Artist
WA-00031048
VideoFluxus
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12
Works in Collection
26
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70%
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian filmmaker and poet who pioneered experimental cinema and the visual diary form in postwar America. Working primarily in 16mm film, he created lyrical, fragmented works that merged autobiography with formal innovation, refusing narrative convention in favor of accumulated moments and sensory immediacy. Co-founder of Fluxus and editor of Film Culture magazine, Mekas established a practice of filming daily life that became foundational to the artist's film movement. His work prioritized subjective experience and the materiality of celluloid itself as essential to meaning.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Fluxus
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Video
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12 published of 24 catalogued · 1 with image
- MoMA11 publishedof 23 catalogued
- Tate1 published1 img
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- 1964 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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