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☆ Opinion | I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

His most famous piece is “4’33”,” which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for exactly that period of time. I thought about what would have happened if protesters were instead chanting anti-Black slogans, or even something like “D.E.I. They would have lasted roughly five minutes before masses of students shouted them down and drove them off the campus. I’d wager that most of the student protesters against the Gaza War would view them that way, in fact. Why do so many people think that weekslong campus protests against not just the war in Gaza but Israel’s very existence are nevertheless permissible?

Persons: John Cage, ”, Israel’s, Jewish Organizations: Columbia University Locations: Gaza

☆ ‘As Living as Opera Can Get’: John Cage’s Anarchic Anti-Canon
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The start was typical: Oper Frankfurt in Germany asked John Cage to write an opera. But the premiere, in 1987, was unlike anything in opera up to that point. (Audience members also received varied plot synopses that read like opera Mad Libs.) The public wasn’t exactly equipped to receive what Cage had served them. Laura Kuhn, who runs the John Cage Trust and worked with him as he prepared “Europeras 1 & 2,” wrote in her dissertation on the piece that the reception in Frankfurt varied from “overt enthusiasm to no less overt bewilderment or disdain.”

Persons: John Cage, Libs, Cage, Laura Kuhn, ” Organizations: Oper, John Cage Trust Locations: Oper Frankfurt, Germany, American, Frankfurt

☆ Composer, Uninterrupted: Christian Wolff at 90
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Steve Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If artistic stature worked by osmosis, Christian Wolff could claim greatness based on that alone. “My father met Brahms,” he said, easing into conversation at a sturdy wooden table in the dining room of his Hanover, N.H., home. Wolff’s father was 6 or 7. Wolff’s grandfather, a violinist, conductor and professor, knew Brahms personally and professionally, he said. Wolff, who turns 90 on Friday, is associated with a different pantheon.

Persons: Christian Wolff, “, Brahms, ”, Clara Schumann’s, Wolff’s, Robert Schumann, Wolff, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, John Ashbery, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg Organizations: New York School Locations: Hanover, N.H, Bonn, Germany, New York

☆ Phill Niblock, Dedicated Avant-Gardist of Music and Film, Dies at 90
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Alex Williams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His partner, Katherine Liberovskaya, said he died in a hospital of heart failure after years of cardiac procedures. Mr. Niblock had no formal musical training. He served as the foundation’s sole director from 1985 until his death, and he was also the curator of the foundation’s record label, XI. His loft on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan served as a performance space for the foundation. It was also a social nexus for boundary-pushing musicians and composers like John Cage, Arthur Russell, David Behrman and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Persons: Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya, Niblock, Elaine Summers, John Cage, Arthur Russell, David Behrman, Thurston Moore Organizations: Sonic Youth Locations: New York, Manhattan, Lower Manhattan

☆ Yoko Ono and the Women of Fluxus Changed the Rules in Art and Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Martha Schwendener | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sitting onstage at Carnegie Hall while audience members come up to snip her clothing off with scissors. These are some of the actions taken in the name of art in “Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus” at the Japan Society, an exhibition that focuses on four revolutionary women, Shigeko Kubota, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and one you’ve probably heard of before, Yoko Ono. Fluxus was founded in the early 1960s and paved the way for Conceptual art, Minimalism, performance and video. But by focusing on four Japanese women, the show asks: Who stands the test of time? Was Fluxus really a blueprint for the future?

Persons: Shigeko Kubota, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Yoko Ono, John Cage, Midori Yoshimoto, Tiffany Lambert, Ayaka Iida Organizations: Carnegie Hall, Artists, Fluxus, Japan Society

With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without actual wings. Surveying the shoreline of Rockaway Beach on a recent morning, Patricia Lent, from the Merce Cunningham Trust, was elated. “This is a dream come true,” she said, adding: “It’s someone else’s dream — but it is a dream come true.”Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” has finally made its way to the beach. An adaptation of this 1991 dance is part of this year’s Beach Sessions Dance Series, at Rockaway Beach on Saturday. Staged by Lent and Rashaun Mitchell — both former company members and trustees — “Beach Birds” comes to life in a setting where the sand, the sea and real birds create, along with 11 dancers, a humming summer landscape.

Persons: Patricia Lent, Merce Cunningham, Lent, Rashaun Mitchell —, —, Cunningham, John Cage Organizations: Merce Cunningham Trust Locations: Rockaway

☆ Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Sadie Stein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

First published in 1982 with the straightforward subtitle “A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin,” this is in fact so much more. Yes, Weschler explores Irwin’s early years with the California Abstract Expressionist school, and his move into spatial experimentation. You’ll come away with solid knowledge of the 20th-century art world. In Irwin’s own words: “For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. Once you let them in, you’ve already done the first and most critical thing, you’ve honored that information by including it.

Persons: Robert Irwin, Weschler, You’ll, it’s, you’ve, ”, John Cage’s, Dick ”, Werner Herzog’s “, Morgana Organizations: Contemporary, Getty, Dia Locations: California

☆ They Know the Blessing and Curse of Warhol and Basquiat
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Arthur Lubow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Using her bare breasts as paintbrushes, Berlin, beginning in the ’70s, made “tit prints,” in which her pigment-laden aureoles produced forms that resemble balloons and angelfish. Even more scandalous are three of the chapbooks in which she kept drawings she cajoled artists into making of their penises. She was making the ‘tit prints’ without thinking of burning her bra. What really matters is what is in the work.”Like Powell, Berlin in many of her Polaroids documented the Warhol entourage. The show concludes with homages to Berlin made by artists today, including Francesco Clemente, Jenna Gribbon and Jane Kaplowitz.

Persons: Jasper Johns, Leonard Cohen, Dennis Hopper, Robert Smithson, Brice Marden, ” Gingeras, “, ”, Warhol, Gingeras, Willem de Kooning, John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Jenna Gribbon, Jane Kaplowitz Locations: Berlin, Powell

☆ Final farewell: From Sidney Poitier to Pope Emeritus Benedict a look back at the influential figures who died in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +55 min

Other world leaders who died in 2022 include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August. The final days of 2022 saw the loss of some exceptionally notable figures, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___Dan Reeves, 77. A Cuban-born artist whose radiant color palette and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice. A prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films.

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