Month: January 2013

Andy Kaufman’s final passport sits in a glass case, a snapshot of his optimism that remained even a couple of months before he died in 1984 at the age of 35. If it were anyone else, it could be haunting. But this is and was Andy Kaufman, where the definitions of reality, performance, humor and art all blended together into something that, when Kaufman had our collective attention in the 1970s and early 1980s, defied those definitions. Twenty-nine years later, Jonathan Berger has assembled a special collection of Kaufman’s personal records, stories and artifacts from the Estate of Andy...