Events took place which a few years later, especially in the art world in New York, would be publicized as "happenings," but which in this more innocent place and time were seen simply as wild parties.. A famous example was an evening of "collective expressionism" organized by Edward Silverstone Taylor in 1957 at The Six Gallery: Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac read poetry, and participants then destroyed a piano and many of the art works on display. p84