P.S. 1, Amanda Feilding, Trepanation for the National Health, Exhibition Booklet, 1978

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Offset print, 6 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ (folded)

An extreme example of ’70s artists’ fearless innovations, and the ambitions of alternative spaces like P.S. 1. The following year, Feilding (an aristocrat descended from the Habsburgs) ran for British Parliament on a platform of “Trepanation for the National Health.”

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DOWNTOWN ERA EXHIBITION HOMEPAGE

Gallery Exhibition Cards P.S. 1

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40 Top Art Events of the Downtown Era: A Timeline, 1974–1992

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The Downtown Era began in the 1970s, when aspiring artists of the baby-boomer generation arrived in New York. Over the next two decades, they would radically change the art world, opening it up to new forms of media, new modes of exhibiting art, and new social perspectives.