Legal-near-miss performance stunts could generate national front-page press coverage.

Evidence

Kusama’s press happenings were guerrilla forays. The Wall Street Anatomic Explosion lasted barely five minutes. With the press, a lawyer, and a lookout in attendance, the artist sprayed blue paint on her naked dancers—two men and two women. Accompanied by a bare-chested Afro Cuban conga drummer, the quartet engaged in free-form gyrations until the lookout spotted approaching police. By the time the law arrived the dancers were fully clothed but, even without an arrest, the event made front-page news as far away as Ogden, Utah. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1251

Categorization

• SHARE: The detail that the dancers were fully clothed by the time police arrived, yet still made front-page news as far as Ogden Utah, is a great tidbit for anyone into performance art tactics.
• XREF: connects to: Well-planned protest spectacles can dictate front-page coverage — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 369; Manufactured arrests are staged as media spectacles