Community Corner
New Jersey as Non-Site
Between
1950 and 1975, many of New York’s leading experimental artists left their
studios and headed across the Hudson River to New Jersey, where they produced
some of the most important works of their careers. In ways largely
unacknowledged until now, New Jersey was the site of and catalyst for major
breakthroughs in the genres of Pop, conceptual, performance, land, and black
art throughout the postwar era. Many of the best-known works of art from the
1950s, ’60s, and ’70s have roots in New Jersey, including some of Allan
Kaprow’s Happenings, Robert Smithson’s first non-sites, and Gordon
Matta-Clark’s Splitting.
OPEN Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and
Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.