John Cage

Art After Dark At Art Museum of the Americas: HuffPost DC Top 5 For May 24, 2012

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 05.24.2012

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TOP 5 FOR THURSDAY, MAY 24 1. Art After Dark At Art Museum of the Americas After hours admission to the museum with an open bar? Yep. This is good...

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Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Video, John Giorno, John Cage, Structuralism, Dial-a-Phone, Poets, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Poem, Ecstatic Alphabet/ Heaps of Language, David Byrne, Arts News

A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the d...

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Nicolas Cage Tackles John Cage In Epic Video

Posted 04.11.2012

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Nicolas Cage is loved far and wide for his masterful combination of screaming and whispering. Yet even Nic knows when to shut his mouth and let magic ...

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Jim Dine's Pop Art Pinocchio

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Video, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Galerie Daniel Templon, Pop Art, Jim Dine, Pinocchio, Neo-Dada, Jim Dine Galerie Daniel Templon, Claus Oldenburg, Arts News

Pinocchio tells the story of a wooden puppet who turns into a living boy. Jim Dine, an influential pop artist who has been actively working for over 5...

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Nuit Blanche Is The Wildest Night Of The Year

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Montreal, Video, John Cage, French Art Festival, Quebec, Canadian Art, Montreal Art Festival, Installation, All-Nighter, Gendrphone, Nuit Blanche, Art Festival, White Night, Arts News

Are you ready to stay up all night? For one night only, February 25, the city of Montreal turns into a living gallery, performance space and carnival....

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PLAN ForYourArt: February 9-15

Bettina Korek | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Bakersfield, Human Resources, John Cage, Culver City, MOCA Los Angeles, Mary Weatherford, La Art, La Around Town, Los Angeles News

Under the Big Black Sun features more than 130 artists working in an array of mediums and addresses the period in American art when modernism reached its end and a multiplicity of movements began to take shape.

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A Man Of Few Notes

Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Avant Garde, Video, John Cage, Juilliard School, Avant Garde Music, Minimal Composer, Minimal Art, Julliard, Avant-Garde Art, Merce Cunningham, John Cage 4'33", Arts News

John Cage may seem like a strange choice for a series of tribute concerts at Juilliard, but those leading the effort say the avant-garde composer is r...

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Looking Closer At Absence

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Avant Garde, John Cage, African American History, Miles David, Jazz, Modernism, Art History, Postmodernism, Jennie Jones, Jones, Jennie C. Jones, Sound Art, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Arts News

Jennie C. Jones' works address absence. Yet instead of treating absence as pure lack, Jones explores its texture, its logic, its intention, its residu...

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World's Longest Running Concert Turns 10

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Video, John Cage, John Cage as Slow as Possible, Halberstadt, St. Burchard Church, John Cage Organ Foundation, Music, As Slow as Possible, World's Longest Concert, Culture News

The Associated Press HALBERSTADT, Germany — A decade and 11 chord changes in, what's billed as the world's longest concert is just getting going....

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Fake Steve Jobs Book Becomes Bestseller

Andrew Losowsky | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs Forgery, John Cage, Taiwan, Apple, Fake Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs Author, Fake Steve Jobs Book, Steve Jobs Apple, Steve Jobs Biography, Steve Jobs Book, Fake Steve Jobs Biography, Video, Books News

A book supposedly by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has become a bestseller in Taiwan, reports Dan Bloom on The Wrap blog. The book, called "Steve Pa...

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The Eclipse Quartet and its Contemporary Cosmos

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: ECLIPSE QUARTET, VICKY RAY, STEPHEN COHN, Morton Feldman, RODNEY PUNT, LOIS VIERK, Meredith Monk, John Cage, Arts News

Less flamboyant than the Kronos and more feline than the Arditti, the Eclipse Quartet is L.A.'s answer to both.

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CHOREOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT: Catastrophe, God, And The Meaning Of Life: Sean Curran's Left Exit

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Cage, IMG Artists, Choreography, God, Debartolo Performing Arts Center, Jerome Begin, Left Exit, Sean-Curran, Performing Arts, Astra-Taylor, Slidepollajax, Catastrophe, Dance, University of Notre Dame, Arts News

WHO: Seán Curran Company WHAT: Left Exit WHEN: October 27 - 29, 2010 WHERE: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 100 Performing Arts Center Notre Dame...

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CultureZohn: Ab Ex NY: A Contemporary Re-Telling of the Abstract Expressionist Tale Opens at MoMA

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hans Hofman, Red, Joseph Campbell, John Cage, Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Expressionism, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollack, Aaron Siskind, Willem De Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Rober Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Museum of Modern Art, Buckminster Fuller, Arts News

Once upon a time, a group of American artists fought to distinguish themselves from their European elders and peers. They took as their quest nothing less than re-inventing art.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in September Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Cage, Sonny Rollins, BB King, Arnold Schoenberg, Danielle Evin, Music, Joan Jett (& the Blackhearts), Joey Heatherton, Cass Elliot (the Mamas & the Papas), Billy Preston, Memphis Slim, Otis Redding, Patsy Cline, mp3s, Gene Autry, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders), Phil Ramone, Arvo Pärt, Glenn Gould, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, Dog Ears, George Gershwin, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

This week we feature music from Jerry Lee Lewis, Sonny Rollins, Memphis Slim, Patsy Cline, John Cage, and more.

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The Most Culturally Radical Show on TV (and Sometimes One of the Cheesiest) is on Fox

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, John Cage, Desmond Richardson, Celine Dion, Twyla Tharp, Nigel Lythgoe, Danny Tidwell, Post-Modernism, Dance, Modern Dance, Merce Cunningham, Entertainment News

When I want to spend an hour or two with the most culturally radical show on TV--a multi-racial, multi-cultural program where race, gender and sexual orientation truly don't seem to matter--I watch "So You Think You Can Dance".

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Pina and Merce: Dance Visionaries Live On

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disney HallWest, Dance Camera West, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles News

They were planets apart, Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham. But one year after both dance visionaries died -- she, suddenly, at a fully active 69, he at 90 -- Angelenos heard those giant footsteps resounding last week.

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Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra Perform the Music of Henry Cowell

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uganda Gay Rights, John Cage, Leon Botstein, Gay Rights, Lincoln Center, American Symphony Orchestra, Henry Cowell, Homosexual Rights, New York News

It's Cowell's biography that pushes this concert into the realm of serious social importance. For four years he was imprisoned in San Quentin for homosexual relations with a consenting man.

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Here's What I'd Like To Hear More of In 2010

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Creativity, New Radicals, Silence, John Cage, Contemplation, Snow, Julia Moulden, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News

An American composer, Cage was one of the leading figures in post-war avant-garde, and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'3", in which not a single note is played.

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Silent Plight?

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kenny G, Mannheim Steamroller, Brahms, John Cage, Mariah Carey, Bob Dylan, Christmas, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Christmas Music, I Ching, Steve Earle, Scriabin, Woody Guthrie, Entertainment News

It's that time of year again. As you navigate the mall, have you started to feel that all you want for Christmas is to avoid Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas"?

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Seventy-Six

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moussa Doumbia, Public Image Ltd., Amazing Baby, John Cage, mp3s, J.D. Souther, Phil Ramone, Danielle Evin, Cold War Kids, Music, Dog Ears, Entertainment News

One musical scientist experimented with plates and screws between the strings of the piano, an army of radios randomly broadcasting, and tape players timed to bathtub gurgles.

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