Nancy Dine, a filmmaker, muse and former wife of the artist Jim Dine, whose documentary about her husband earned her an Academy Award nomination, died on Sept. 6 at a hospital in Manhattan. In 1958, Nancy and Jim Dine were 21 and 22, and married just a year when they moved to New York City from Ohio. Along with Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg and others, Mr. Dine was an impish instigator of so-called Happenings, performance art pieces that both rattled and inspired the art world. In one instance, Mr. Dine doused himself in paint and pretended to drink it. Over the many decades of their marriage, Mr. Dine made hundreds of drawings and prints of his wife.

Source: New York Times September 14, 2020 20:26 UTC