  In the Spring of 1960, my friend Jean Tinguely set up a huge “self-constructing/self-destructing machine” in the back yard of The Museum of Modern Art, also known as the Sculpture Court. He called it his Homage to New York. |
When it was turned on it whirled, burned, whistled and clanked, to the delight of the reserved museum audience and ground out poems, music and fast- art before beating itself into a fiery frenzy and leaving its wreckage strewn about the museum courtyard. Clouds of smoke were everywhere Then out of the audience stepped a man in uniform who presented Jean with a document he took to be an expression of artistic enthusiasm, but which turned out to be a citation for disturbing the peace and violating the City fire code. I’m not sure if anyone ever paid it. D A Pennebaker
A film by D A Pennebaker View Movie Clip
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