Kusama staged a competing sacramental orgy a week after Woodstock

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Afterward, of course, Woodstock was regarded as the great event, the supreme Happening “a landmark in biologic war” per William Burroughs’s enigmatic formulation and climax of the greatest week in counterculture history, not least by Abbie Hoffman, who knocked out an instant manifesto Woodstock Nation. It may have also inspired always competitive Kusama’s most celebrated event, the Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead, staged a week later in the MoMA sculpture garden. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2012

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• CANDY: The competitive Kusama staging an orgy at MoMA the same week as Woodstock is a fun, tweetable oddity.