Enjoy four (4) guest passes to the New Children's Museum in San Diego, 200 West Island Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101

The New Children's Museum opening exhibition, titled childsplay, advances the Museum's pioneering legacy of commissioning established and emerging artists to create work that engages children. The exhibition’s title is a reference to the art of Allan Kaprow, one of the most important artists to have made work for the Museum in the past. His approach to inciting a kind of installation art and performance piece that came to be known, in the late 1960s, as a Happening, serves as inspiration for all of the art in childsplay.

For an interactive view of childsplay at The New Children’s Museum, click here.

Kaprow blurred the boundaries between art and life, finding inspiration from daily objects and patterns and transforming them into participatory environments. Within these environments, unsuspecting viewers became privileged participants in actions that changed how they perceived the world around them. Like Kaprow’s art, all the works in childsplay are springboards for experience, and an invitation to explore new ideas.

The Museum is proud to announce that local artist Brian Dick has re-interpreted two installations Kaprow created with his sons—Yard, from 1961 and No Rules, Except from 2000—by merging them into a new project that celebrates the spirit of Kaprow’s interactions. The new artwork explores Dick’s commitment to recycled materials, and was inspired by the childish joy of jumping on the bed.