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John Cage, Carsten Nicolai, and Christine Sun Kim are responsible for some of the medium's most famous works.
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John Cage, Man of Music—and Mushrooms
In February 1959, John Cage appeared on the Italian television program “Lascia o Raddoppio” (Double or Nothing), a popular game show on which contestants had to answer obscure trivia questions…
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‘Groundings’ at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
See images from one notable show every weekday.
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All Together
The displacement of fixed centers and rigid boundaries is a consistent theme in "Merce Cunningham: Common Time," an exhibition on view concurrently this spring at two museums: the Walker Art Center…
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From the Archives: A Planned Coincidence
Dore Ashton, a prolific champion of the Abstract Expressionist movement, died on January 30 at age eighty-eight. Ashton was one of the most influential voices of the New York School, authoring over th…
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A Life’s Work: As Her Reputation Surges, Luchita Hurtado Discusses Her Long Career
Sometime in the mid-1940s, the artist Luchita Hurtado, then in her 20s, boarded a Madison Avenue bus in Manhattan to go to an opening at Pierre Matisse’s gallery on East 57th Street. “There was…
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Breaking the Sound Barrier: Cellist Charlotte Moorman’s Avant-Garde Actions Remain Provocative
At the Grey Art Gallery, New York, through December 10
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From the Archives: TV—The Next Medium
On the occasion of the exhibition "Nam June Paik: In Character," at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (through January 1, 2018), A.i.A. delved into the archives. Writer John S. Margolies took on…
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Radical Statements: Four Reviews by Laurie Anderson
During the early ’70s, Laurie Anderson was a mainstay in this magazine’s reviews section, often writing several reviews every issue. With her criticism receiving a shoutout from Alanna Heiss in Mo<a href="/art-news/artists/the-anti-museum-director-alanna-heiss-on-the-40th-anniversary-of-ps1-contemporary-art-center-6675/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
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