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Stranded at Judson Memorial Church With Eckert + SorensenJolink

Christopher Atamian | Posted 03.26.2013 | Arts
Christopher Atamian

What would you do should you one day find yourself stuck with a member of the opposite sex on a raft floating out at sea, with no visible rations or other means of survival?

Justice For Jazz Artists

Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 03.23.2013 | Arts
Kurt Ellenberger

I've been watching the development of the Justice for Jazz Artists (J4JA) movement for a couple of years now. If you haven't heard of this organizat...

Limon and Magloire: A Study in Contrasts

Christopher Atamian | Posted 10.18.2012 | Arts
Christopher Atamian

This past week I had the pleasure of attending two very different performances that highlighted the diversity and richness of New York's dance culture.

Channeling John Cage

Jan Herman | Posted 11.21.2012 | Arts
Jan Herman

Is there anybody not paying tribute to John Cage this year, the centennial of his birth? My own favorite tribute is a performance that began more than a decade ago "in a crumbling medieval church" in Halberstadt, a "forlorn" eastern German city.

TONIGHT: Celebrate John Cage

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 09.04.2012 | DC

TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 1. John Cage Centennial Festival At Corcoran Gallery The very important 20th century American composer now has his ...

Saul Williams, Patton Oswalt, John Cale: HuffPost DC Top 5 For August 31, September 1, 2

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 08.31.2012 | DC

TOP 5 FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 1. Saul Williams At Howard Theatre One of the only American poets that non-poetry folks enjoy. A captivating figure, w...

Toxie, Big Hush At Comet Ping Pong: HuffPost DC Top 5 For August 28

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 08.28.2012 | DC

TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 1. Toxie, Big Mouth, Big Hush At Comet Ping Pong Toxie is a post-punk band from Memphis. They play the type of music ...

Enjoy The Silence

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 07.27.2012 | Arts

Museums are no strangers to silence; in fact, like clockwork, a hush enshrouds the institutions from the entrance, allowing for a viewer's maximum med...

John Cage, Buddhism And The Hymn Of Love

Kay Larson | Posted 09.11.2012 | Religion
Kay Larson

Suzuki warned his audiences that ego-delusions spread great suffering everywhere. Get yourself out of the way, Suzuki said. Empty your own mind to see the spaciousness that is your birthright.

John Cage's Quest For The True Music Of The Modern Age

AP | ANN LEVIN | Posted 07.04.2012 | Home

-- "Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists" (Penguin Press), by Kay Larson In August 1952 in a barn-turned-co...

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 | DC

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...

Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012 | Arts

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...

Nicolas Cage Tackles John Cage In Epic Video

Posted 04.11.2012 | Arts

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 ...

Jim Dine's Pop Art Pinocchio

Posted 03.22.2012 | Arts

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...

Nuit Blanche Is The Wildest Night Of The Year

Posted 02.23.2012 | Arts

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....

PLAN ForYourArt: February 9-15

Bettina Korek | Posted 04.10.2012 | Los Angeles
Bettina Korek

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.

A Man Of Few Notes

Posted 02.01.2012 | Arts

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...

Looking Closer At Absence

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012 | Arts

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

World's Longest Running Concert Turns 10

Posted 11.21.2011 | Home

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....

Fake Steve Jobs Book Becomes Bestseller

Andrew Losowsky | Posted 10.26.2011 | Books

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...

The Eclipse Quartet and its Contemporary Cosmos

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Rodney Punt

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

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

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

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

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

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Patricia Zohn

2010-09-30-rothpull.jpgOnce 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.

Dog Ears Music: Born in September Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

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

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

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Miles Mogulescu

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".