The Gymnasium was a repurposed Czech-Slovak community center that hosted Warhol’s Velvet Underground relaunch

Evidence

As at Palm Gardens, the Group Image played, Laurel and Hardy were projected, and the perimeter of a boxing-ring-sized body-painting corral was established. This time Voice theater critic Ross Wetzsteon was there, reporting that, even as the Gymnasium manager implored Kusama’s boys to put their clothes back on, “a fleshy blonde girl strode naked into the pen. [She] danced for a few minutes, then disappeared as quickly as she’d come—into clothes and into newsprint.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1175

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the reuse of marginal community spaces (Sokol Hall) as the physical infrastructure of the avant-garde — strengthens the cheap-rent and ignorable-venues argument.