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Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980 (2013)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
An exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art illuminating a radical period of 1970s performance art that flourished in downtown Manhattan, which cult figure Jack Smith once called “Rented Island.”
Photography by Ron Amstutz