Radical art moved from galleries into direct street actions against political targets.

Evidence

Aldo Tambellini declined to join in. Instead, he postscripted Angry Arts Week with Black Death, a funeral procession organized with Saul Gottlieb, that wended its way up from the East Village to arch-conservative, pro-war Cardinal Spellman’s residence behind St. Patrick’s Church. The action would now be in the street. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1054

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s subcultures-to-countercultures structure: the pivot from art object to street action is the mechanism by which a scene becomes political.