# @gettymuseum on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-10-10T22:31:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

A new episode of Intimate Addresses is out today! It's all about Ben Patterson. 🎧

Patterson was a classically trained musician who faced down American racism, went to Germany, and became a Fluxus artist. His made music that was revolutionary, quirky, low tech pieces, like orchestras for sheets of paper and dances to traffic signals.

He was also a librarian and an arts administrator, advocating for other artists, especially Black musicians. 

His art and work make you think about what it is to be a participant, what it is to be an activist, and what it is to be an artist. 

Get inspired by Benjamin Patterson. Listen to Recording Artists: Intimate Addresses wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted by Tess Taylor (tessathon).

🖼️: 
1. Benjamin Patterson performing “Variations for double-bass” at Kleines Sommerfest, Wuppertal, Germany, June 9, 1962, Rolf Jährling. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (890164). Courtesy Estate of Benjamin Patterson. Photo: © Rolf Jährling
2. Benjamin Patterson to his parents, May 20, 1962, Ben Patterson scores and letters. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2022.M.23). Courtesy Estate of Benjamin Patterson 

🏷️: #RecordingArtists #Intimate Addresses #BenPatterson #Fluxus #podcasts

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intimate, podcasts, benpatterson, recordingartists, fluxus

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