Artist: John Cage ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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John Cage, HV 10, 1983
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John Cage, Signals 23, 1978
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John Cage, 17 Drawings by Thoreau, 1978
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John Cage, HV2 19c, 1992
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John Cage, Score for 17 Drawings by Thoreau, 1978
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John Cage, Map for Ryoku 1, 1985
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John Cage, Dereau #3, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #2, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #25, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #26, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #27, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #28, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #29, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #13, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #38, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #37, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #36, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #35, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #34, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #33, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #32, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #31, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #30, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #1, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #4, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #22, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #21, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #20, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #12, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #19, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #18, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #17, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #16, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #15, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #14, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #23, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #24, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #11, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #5, 1982
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John Cage, Dereau #10, 1982

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor: The Visual Art of John Cage: To Sober and Quiet the Mind
Cage made his first etchings at Crown Point Press in San Francisco in January of 1977, and he continued to work at the press for two weeks every year until his death. A ...
Dia Center for the Arts: Mapping The Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)
With seven projections and multiple audio tracks of ambient sounds, Nauman, in his words, used this traffic as a way of mapping the leftover parts and work areas of the last several years of other completed, unfinished, or discarded projects...
Mobius: Drawing By Chance: Installation by Margaret B. Tittemore

Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Founded in North Carolina in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a dissident Classical academic, it attracted a star-studded cast of teachers and students who forged a dramatic shift from a Eurocentric art world to a distinctly American one. Rice invited Jo...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 10 XX (Jujikan): Japanese Sound Art
These recorded sound pieces will play on a rotating basis during regular Museum hours in the Phyllis Wattis Theater, in the same format as last year's Jukebox program of recorded acoustic art and experimental music by John Cage, Alvin Curran, B...
Chambers Fine Art: Viewpoints: Chinese Photography Today
Only in the work of Weng Fen, represented in the exhibition by two works of 2002, Bird's Eye View: Shenzhen and Bird's Eye View: Haikou , is there a glimpse of the overwhelming scale of urban developments in China today. The focus of his photograp...
Jan van der Donk: Hazel Larsen Archer: Trimming of this Photo is Forbidden
This show indeed documents the faces of the young Cunningham, the young Cage, de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, Dorothea Rockburne, Su san Weil,  Robert Rauschenberg and Ray Johnson. On view are also portraits of Josef and Annie Albers, Charles Olson and ...
Joan Miro Foundation: Sunflower
This idea of transformation is fundamental to his entire work, and the fact of converting a work of art – traditionally an aesthetic object destined only to be looked at – into an inhabitable object with a specific function reveals his capacity fo...
New-York Historical Society: Prints from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams: An exhibition of images celebrating music and musicians
Included among the 80 prints are portraits of musicians and composers such as Paul Robeson, Arturo Toscanini and Dave Byrne; images that illustrate specific music or songs, from C...
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Sounds Like Art
Beginning in the post-World War II era, the work of John Cage made a case for the idea that breaking down distinctions between noise and music would open up possibilities for auditory pleasure. Random sonic juxtapositions traffic sound...
Columbia Museum of Art: Burn: Artists Play with Fire
Technique and theme merge in these dramatic works as artists explore such issues as cultural identity, environmental fragility and personal loss. Some of the featured artists include L.C. Armstrong, Chris Burden, John Cage, Willie Cole, Kathleen K...
Courtyard Gallery: Wang Shugang: Apartment Block Life
The phrase 'apartment blocks' refers to the vast labyrinth of numbered doorways in Chinese housing complexes represented here by bamboo cages. Each cage stands akin to the iron grilles adorning the exterior of Chinese apartment windows. This insta...
Guggenheim: The Worlds of Nam Jume Paik
Paik studied music composition first in Korea, then at the University of Tokyo, where he wrote his thesis on Modernist composer Arnold SchNULLberg. In 1956 Paik traveled to Europe and settled in Germany to pursue his intere...
Kiasma, Musuem of Contemporary Art: THREE WINDOWS - A HOMAGE TO ROBERT LAX
Nicolas Humbert has studied painting and filmmaking and has worked since as a freelance writer and film director. Films: Wolfsgrub (1986), Vagabonding Images (1998) in collaboration with Simone Fürbringer. Werner Penzel played...
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts: Elvis Has Just Left the Building - Urban Legends / Contemporary Myths
Sightings of extinct animals, conspiracy theories, UFO abductions, the ubiquitous Elvis apparitions and other compelling myths from Australia and abroad are among the topics tackled by the participants. Shifting from truth to fiction and back ag...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Adam Donovan, Jondi Keane, Rodney Spooner, and Carl Warner
Adam Donovan’s exhibit, entitled Heterodyning Cage, combines the highly specialised field of scientific acoustics with the visual arts. His work is interactive, with gallery visitors becoming the subject of his work as a number of camera systems t...
Portland Museum of Art: Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection
As a teacher at Freeport High School and Curator of Maine Coast Artists in Rockport, Brown has educated many people about art and has also assembled a phenomenal collection of contemporary prints on a limited budget. Brown began collecting in the...
Saint-Gervais - Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine: Call for Entries: 9th Biennial of Moving Images
9th Biennial - Sound System
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Auckland Art Gallery: Max Gimblett: The Brush of All Things
Gimblett's work is rich and inventive. He is known for his great technical and stylistic range: the monochrome, geometric abstraction, the calligraphic and figurative expressionism all find a place in the work. He uses novel shaped supports: ovals...
Sculpture Garden Park: nternational Sculpture Symposium - An Giang Hallmark II
An Giang province covers an area of 3,424 km2 with a population of 2,083,571 people. An Giang is situated in the southwestern Vietnam, bordering Cambodia, upstream of the Mekong Delta river with fertile rice paddies in the Tu Giac Long Xuyen regi...
MASS MoCA: Fluxus Games Exhibition Mixes Hijinks and High Art
Created in 1961 by the artist George Maciunas, the term Fluxus was originally intended as the title of a magazine that would document new art. Fluxus, a word chosen by Maciunas for its connotation of change, became a loose association of artist...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
Jasper Johns first came to public attention over 50 years ago, with his now-famous images of flags, numerals and impersonal household objects, or - as he described them - “things we already know”. Radically different from the prevailing Abstract E...
Embassy of Israel: Conversations with Kafka: Works by Jacob Porat
The longer one looks at the paintings, the more details are discovered and layers excavated, the complexity of the worlds depicted proliferates and deepens. The viewers bring themselves to the paintings. However, the more versed they are in Porat’...
Haus der Kunst: Jana Sterbak: I Can Hear You Think
Jana Sterbak’s works inhabit the border zone between installation, performance, video and film. They are characterized by a great diversity of materials and the unusual way they are used. Not only does Sterbak permanently extend the bounds of sculptu...
Contemporary Arts Center: Loop: Back to the Beginning
Assembled by Klaus Biesenbach, Loop examines the phenomenon of cyclical time as illustrated by the repeated gesture or event. In each of the works included in this exhibition, time becomes a sculptural component. Time is chopped up, carved, compre...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Daria Martin: 16mm Films
Daria Martin's film-trilogy seduces and irritates through its exaggerated theatrical artifice as well as through its blunt exposure and its concurrent hermetic hiding of emotions. In «In the Palace» performers and objects are united in an indefina...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios
Rauschenberg made his Wadsworth Atheneum debut in 1964, in several guises. His legendary Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) had its first public showing with other early work in the group exhibition Black, White and Grey: Contemporary Painting and ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Y E S YOKO ONO
Avant-garde figures such as John Cage, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Andy Warhol, and Ornette Coleman collaborated with Ono, and their resulting works are also represented. Accompanying the exhibition is the catalogue YES YOKO...
ZONE: Chelsea, Center for the Arts: Molly Davies: Retrospective of Video Installation Works
Ms. Davies work explores movement of the performing body and film, distilling the everyday to suggest undercurrents of desire, isolation and joy.  Juxtaposing images to create layers of meaning, her work immerses the viewer into striking, poetic w...
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Y E S YOKO ONO
The exhibition offers the first comprehensive reevaluation of Ono's work, exploring her position within the postwar international avant-garde, and her critical and influential role in originating forms of avant-garde art, music, film ...

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