She Wanted Adventure: Art, Protest, and the Gallerists Who Made the Counterculture

The untold story of five women gallerists whose risky and raucous exhibitions brought art to life and to Los Angeles from the 1960s onward—and whose influence transformed the city and remade the canon.

A Volkswagen microbus sighs to a halt and out tumble nine people. It is 1962, and the passengers—artists, dancers, musicians, eccentrics—are haggard and harried from weeks on the road. They range from the already famous (Merce Cunningham, John Cage) to the soon-to-be (Robert Rauschenberg), an...