JAMES LEE BYARS (1932-1997), was born in Detroit and died in Cairo, is celebrated for his wide-ranging practice that combined elements of Fluxus, Minimalism and Conceptual art. James Lee Byars: Life, Love and Death, a large retrospective of Byars’s work, was organized by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in 2004, and shown in a smaller form at the Whitney Museum of American Art later that year. The Rest Is Silence, a collection of concurrent solo exhibitions spread between the Perry Rubinstein, Mary Boone, and Michael Werner galleries in New York, was held this spring.
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