Showing posts with label John Cage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Cage. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The sound of silence at MoMA


MoMA has acquired the score for one of the most controversial gestures in the history of modern music. John Cage's 4' 33" meditation on the act of listening, which was inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's revolutionary white paintings, will go on view at MoMA next year. Read more...

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Phil Dadson's tribute to John Cage




Phil Dadson's video Between Worlds (2011) is amongst the collection of stories and visual and sound artworks by international artists in the Streaming Museum's online tribute to John Cage. You can view his video contribution to A John Cage Centennial Tribute here.

Produced and broadcast in NYC, Streaming Museum is a hybrid museum that presents multi-media exhibitions in cyberspace.
Image: John Cage, 1991, photo by Hemming Lohner, courtesy of the John Cage Trust; and video still from Phil Dadson's Between Worlds, 2011