Avant-garde fame traveled across the Atlantic faster than reputations spread within New York

Evidence

Although notorious in Europe for his 1960 Etude for Pianoforte, which had concluded with a vault into the audience to snip off John Cage’s necktie and a 1962 performance of the Moonlight Sonata during which he stripped to his underwear, smashed a violin and pelted the audience with raw eggs, Paik was largely unknown in New York. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1914

Categorization

• CANDY: Paik vaulting offstage to snip Cage’s tie and later pelting audiences with raw eggs is inherently comic.