George Maciunas (American, born Lithuania, 1931-1978). Announcement of Flux Shop & Mail Order Warehouse for Fluxus Newspaper No. 5. 1965. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, 2008.

MoMA has installed a gallery with 70 works from the recently acquired Silverman Collection of Fluxus art, a faster than usual turnaround for a gift announced in February.

Fluxus, an international movement of the 1960s and 1970s, altered traditional notions of art-making, with an emphasis on performance, publications and editions.

The entire collection includes 3,000 items which will require several years to catalog.

The Fluxus items have been integrated into MoMA’s postwar painting and sculpture galleries. Works by George Maciunas, Yoko Ono and George Brecht are among those now on view.

This change comes amid a larger effort by Chief Curator Ann Temkin to revitalize the permanent galleries. Her ongoing re-installation incorporates names who had traditionally been left offstage, such as Bob Thompson and Norman Lewis, two important painters who are African American.

She has also introduced mixed media so that the painting and sculpture galleries (which perhaps ought to be renamed?) aren’t a march of heroic objects, but reflect more modes of expression including photography and printmaking.

American art fans will be relieved to learn that Temkin plans a gallery showcasing prewar American artists such as Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe and Arthur Dove next year.

She has also begun re-painting some of the gallery walls a soft gray, in place of the traditional and tired-out “MoMA” white. Judging by the success of the first gray rooms, the new hue deserves to be dubbed “Temkin” Gray.