Until Friday September 7 2018
Tolle’s
installation at Federal Hall—a 40-foot-high photo sculpture of a gabled Dutch
house reflected in the waters of an adjacent canal—coincides with a rare
showing of the Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 petition to Peter Stuyvesant,
leader of the Netherlands colony of New Amsterdam. Delivered by Dutch settlers
in what is now Flushing, Queens, the Remonstrance sought an exemption from
Stuyvesant’s ban on Quaker worship with language calling for religious
tolerance—a sentiment that would later be encoded in the Bill Of Rights. While
Tolle’s piece isn't about the Flushing Remonstrance, per se, it makes for a
felicitous pairing with the document displayed nearby.
Venue name:
Federal Hall National Memorial
Address: 26 Wall St New York 10005
Cross
street: at Nassau St
Opening
hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pmTransport: Subway: J, Z, M to Broad St; 2, 3, 4, 5 to
Wall St
Event
website: http://www.nps.gov/feha/index.htm
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