The death of a performance artist.

Chris Burden has died at the age of 69.

Burden began his career as an avant-garde performance artist. In 1971�s �Five Day Locker,� he locked himself in a traditional school locker for five days. Later that same year, for �Shoot� -- also captured on film -- Burden had a friend shoot him in the arm. For �Trans-Fixed� in 1974, the artist evoked the crucifixion of Jesus when he lay on top of a Volkswagen Beetle and had nails driven into his hands.

The linked obituary says that Burden was best known for an installation of a large number of street lamps in front of Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I guess the obituarist wasn't around in the 70s!

"Shoot" and "Trans-Fixed" were the ultimate in performance art, continually cited and (I would have thought) never to be forgotten. But sic transit performance art. Put a buncha lamposts in front of a museum in a big city where everyone will see them and want to take selfies and that's what you're famous for. He made ordinary people feel nice. Noted.

Forget about how you meant to deeply disturb us lo those many years ago.