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
Dome of the Rock aluminum-bronze plates covered with gold leaf. A few hours after the Israeli flag was hoisted over the Dome of the Rock in 1967 during the Six-Day War, Israelis lowered it on the orders of Moshe Dayan and invested the Muslim "waqf" (religious trust) with the authority to manage the Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif, in order to "keep the peace". In 1993, the golden dome covering was refurbished following a donation of USD 8.2 million by King Hussein of Jordan who sold one of his houses in London to fund the 80 kilograms of gold required. The Dome of the