Michael Smith Performance: Avuncular Quest Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 2 pm

Michael Smith Performance: Avuncular Quest

Sun, Nov 17, 2013
2 pm

Man stands in front of a television explaining something to several people seated around.
Man stands in front of a television explaining something to several people seated around.

Michael Smith, Mike's House, performance at Whitney Museum of American Art, February 19–March 11, 1982. Courtesy the artist

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Third-floor gallery

In conjunction with Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980, Michael Smith will perform a new solo work, Avuncular Quest, which mines gestures and utilizes props and objects from his seminal early pieces.

Sunday, November 17, 2 pm
Friday, December 20, 7 pm
Friday, January 10, 7 pm

Free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6–9 pm. No registration is required.


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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