“In 1957 Allan Kaprow decided to try out the possibility that the ‘action’ of Action Painting was a ritual act of creation, not just an incidental frenzy of movement that produced wild canvases. That decision effectively ended his growing career as a painter. Since then he has given to the world a word: the ‘Happening.’ From Murray the K’s radio program to the Revlon commercials, to peace marches and sit-ins, to the campaigns of politicians–that word seems to have satisfied a need to evoke the zest, freakishness and game of the life around us. Kaprow himself finds the Cape Kennedy rocket launchings among the most powerful quasi-Happenings. And one embittered cynic recently compared the war in Vietnam to a ‘Happening gone out of control’” –from the record sleeve, which features a silkscreened photograph by Sol Goldberg of Kaprow’s Household held at Cornell University in 1964.