• Artists

11 Essential Sound Artworks, from Reviled Noise Orchestras to Protest-Minded Installations

John Cage, Carsten Nicolai, and Christine Sun Kim are responsible for some of the medium's most famous works.

• By
  Tessa Solomon
• Oct 8, 2020 2:24 pm

• AiA Photos

Photos: John Cage, Man of Music—and Mushrooms

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  Art in America
• May 31, 2020 6:34 pm

• Reviews

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…

• By
  Max Pearl
• May 31, 2020 6:32 pm

• News

‘Groundings’ at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

See images from one notable show every weekday.

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Jan 7, 2019 4:32 pm

• Features

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…

• By
  Corinne Granof
• Jun 1, 2017 1:26 pm

• Features

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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  Dore Ashton
• Feb 8, 2017 1:35 pm

• ARTnews

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…

• By
  Catherine G. Wagley
• Jan 20, 2017 4:44 pm

• Reviews

Breaking the Sound Barrier: Cellist Charlotte Moorman’s Avant-Garde Actions Remain Provocative

At the Grey Art Gallery, New York, through December 10

• By
  Alex Greenberger
• Dec 8, 2016 4:47 pm

• Features

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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  John S. Margolies
• Dec 5, 2016 12:09 pm

• Retrospective

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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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Jul 22, 2016 11:59 am