MOORMAN, Charlotte

After beginning her New York career as an orchestra pit cellist, Moorman became in the early 1960s involved with avant-garde performance, working principally with the video artist Nam June Paik, who typically made for her a brassière with video monitors in place of cups. Her most extraordinary creation was the New York Avant-Garde Festival, which she organized almost annually from 1963 to 1982. Once a year, Moorman would invite artists to do whatever they wanted within space available for certain...