Voice of Fire with striped T-shirts and ties that mimicked the painting. The 1996 book "Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State", edited by Bruce Barber, Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brian, discusses the issues around the purchase of the painting. Commissioned for Expo 67, the International and Universal Exposition that took place in Montreal during Canada's 1967 centennial, "Voice of Fire" was part of the US pavilion organized by art critic and historian Alan Solomon. The exhibition, "American Painting Now" featured the work of twenty-two artists installed in the US Pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by engineer Buckminster Fuller. Explicitly oriented
The Dome Center The Dome Center The Dome Center is a fair and convention complex located in Henrietta, New York, just outside the city of Rochester. It is the former site of the annual Monroe County Fair and comprises the following: The arena's trademark was the experimental green textile and rubber basketball court, which at the time was billed as the "future of basketball courts", (the "AstroTurf of basketball"). Although it was growing in popularity in Europe, the carpeted playing court never took off as a viable surface in the US, and a generation later "The Rug" remains an icon in the memories