a brief history of nomination

T I M E L I N E	4004 B.C. or earlier	1915	1950s	1960	1962	1965	c. 1980+	c. 1990+	we welcome your contribution to this timeline
	Adam names all the creatures of the earth brought to him by God.	Marcel Duchamp nominates a snow shovel as a work of art, calling it "In Advance of a Broken Arm."	Robert Rauschenberg erases a drawing by Willem de Kooing and nominates the resulting almost-blank piece of paper as a new artwork.	Yves Klein declares November 27th a worldwide "Theatre du Vide" (Theater of Emptiness).	On February 25th, Piero Manzoni issues a certificate of authenticity declaring Marcel Broodthaers a poet.	Hans Haacke considers signing the rain, the ocean, fog, etc. (He decides not to.)	J.S.G. Boggs makes detailed, exact-size but one-side-only ink drawings of U.S. currency and calls them money. He uses his drawings as money but the government is not able to convict him of counterfeiting.	The Museum of Forgery contributes posthumous works by Duchamp, Josef Albers, and others to the world art pool.