The events were curated by artists and included participation by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell.
[2][5] She curated the first solo shows of Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and Robert Indiana.
[6] She became noted for her innovative installations such as for Joseph Cornell for which she had the gallery painted black.
[4] The gallery was eventually located on the first floor of 33 East 74th Street, with her residence in the rear of the half-basement level.
He had been scheduled for an exhibition in November... but this was in June and the gallery was about to close - and I spent my summers in Connecticut then - and I decided I wasn't going to worry about it or think about it, but the right thing would happen at the right time.
And I had a lovely ice house in Connecticut outside of Old Lyme - a reconverted ice house; it was enchanting... and I was out on the lawn one summer, a lazy summer afternoon, sunning, reading, and John [Bedenkapp], an old friend, an architect, was there, and I was lying there on my back, sunning, with my eyes closed, not thinking about anything in the world, and suddenly a voice said, 'Andy Warhol.'