In 1952, David Tudor sat down in front of a piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds and did nothing. The piece 4?33--written by John Cage, is possibly the most famous and important piece in ...
Landing page for ‘Making the Right Choices: A John Cage Celebration’ (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) In his 1948 “Composer’s Confession” address at Vassar College, ...
Philip Glass isn’t the only 20th-century composer with a big birthday this year. Avant-garde composer John Cage would’ve been 100, and there are numerous chances to see his work (even more than usual) ...
This book cover image released by The Penguin Press shows "Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism and the Inner Life of Artists," by Kay Larson. (AP Photo/The Penguin Press) "Where the Heart ...
John Cage (right) performs with David Tudor in 1971. Photo courtesy Cunningham Dance Foundation archive. In the latest Slate Book Review, Seth Colter Walls reviews the latest biography of John Cage.
If there’s one word John Cage is associated with, it’s chance. It’s crucial to the experience of his signature work, the silent composition 4’33”, as well as his process in a variety of mediums. Cage ...
experiences isn’t what we do. It’s that sense of discovering the hidden that the amateur mycologist found so thrilling about mushroom hunting. The pages of the Mushroom Book — a collaboration with ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. In 2011 an artist named Kurt Mueller created the world's ...
Visitors and journalists have been coming to see the organ in the Burchardi Church to witness the sound change in the world's slowest piece of music. Matthias Bein/dpa Twenty-two years into the ...
John Cage would have been a hundred years old tomorrow. Scratch that: Cage is a hundred. He remains a palpably vivid presence, still provoking thought, still spurring argument, still spreading sublime ...
When John Cage offered a music-composition course at Black Mountain College in the summer of 1952, nobody signed up for it. Apparently the students knew that the coursework would consist entirely of ...