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☆ ‘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

☆ 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

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