Steven Durland, Champion of Performance Art, Dies at 75

Steven Durland, Champion of Performance Art, Dies at 75

Artist, writer, editor, and cultural organizer Steven Durland died on March 11 at the age of 75 after a brief illness. His longtime collaborator and life partner, Linda Frye Burnham, confirmed his death in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, his home base of three decades. Durland was born in 1951 in Long Beach, California, and raised in South Dakota. Over the course of his early life, he lived in Massachusetts and New York before returning to the West C…

Life as Performance Art

It turns out I’m a rarity: of all the last or surnames in the U.S., Stoppel ranks at 52,970th from the top of the charts. Still, with some 6.2 million Stoppels, it’s not surprising to discover at least two more of us work for newspapers.The one near Emporia, Kans., seems to specialize in obituaries and sports; another, Sara Stoppel, is a staff writer for the Thunder Bay, Ontario, Argus. Thunder Bay is an amalgam of Fort William and Port Arthur, …