Member Preview Day: / Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980 Wed, Oct 30, 2013, 12–6 pm

Member Preview Day:
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980

Wed, Oct 30, 2013
12–6 pm

Sylvia Palacios Whitman (b. 1941), Passing Through, performance at Sonnabend Gallery, New York, May 20, 1977. Photograph by Babette Mangolte; © 1977 All reproduction rights reserved

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Be among the first to see this exhibition, which illuminates a radical period of 1970s performance art that flourished in downtown Manhattan—or "Rented Island," in the words of filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith—and still remains largely unknown today. 

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