Alexander Dellal, Contemporary Fine Arts and Vito Schnabel are pleased to present "Stay With Me, Baby" by The Bruce High Quality Foundation. The exhibition features an animatronic installation of singing union rats as well as a single large silkscreen painting from the group's ongoing History Painting series.
Context:
Lorraine Ellison recorded "Stay With Me Baby" in 1966.
In January of 1966, New York City transportation workers go on strike for two weeks.
In 1983 Ellison dies from ovarian cancer after giving up her music career to take care of her dying mother.
The first use of the inflatable union rat dates to 1991 in Chicago.
In February of 1991, a Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.