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An event which combines the visual arts and improvised theatre. Happenings became popular in the USA in the 1960s, influenced by the composer John Cage's theories concerning the role of chance in art, and closely related to performance art and environment art. They were associated particularly with the US painter Allen Kaprow (1927-2006), who first used the term in 1959, as well as with the pop artists Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Artists such as Yves Klein in France and Joseph Beuys in Germany have developed the political potential of happenings.
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