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John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain 1927-, American sculptor, b. Rochester, Ind. In the late 1950s, Chamberlain became known for his welded assemblages of smashed automobile parts and colored scrap metal. His work is represented in the Los Angeles County Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.... Read more |
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Museum devoted to art since 1940, opened in 1979. Pontus Hulten was the first director. The founders and benefactors have included several prominent local collectors of modern art, among them Robert A. Rowen (1910– ), Taft Schreiber... Read more |
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Museums
MUSEUMS MUSEUMS define relationships between life, community, the nation, and the world through the interpretation of objects, experience, and the environment. These institutions range from community-based museums, such as the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, and Chinatown... Read more |
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University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico main campus at Albuquerque; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1889, opened 1892. It maintains graduate centers at Los Alamos and Santa Fe and conducts joint research with Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories and the Holloman Air Force Base missile development... Read more |
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David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros , 1896-1974, Mexican painter, b. Chihuahua. Siqueiros was among Mexico's most original and eminent painters. His career as an artist was always related to his vigorous socialist revolutionary activities. He enlisted in the Batallón Mamá ( "Baby's Brigade" ) in... Read more |
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University of Southern California
University of Southern California at Los Angeles; coeducational; chartered and opened 1880. The university has a liberal arts college and a graduate school as well as schools of architecture, urban and regional planning, engineering, safety and systems management, business administration, cinema... Read more |
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Rafael Moneo
Rafael Moneo (José Rafael Moneo), 1937-, Spanish architect, b. Tudela, Navarre. He received undergraduate (1961) and doctoral (1965) degrees from the Madrid School of Architecture, worked (1960-61) with Danish architect Jørn Utzon, and studied (1963-65) at the Spanish Academy in Rome... Read more |
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Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg , 1929-, Swedish-American artist, b. Stockholm. Usually considered part of the pop art movement, Oldenburg explores the ironic and humorous aspects of common objects by grossly distorting them in scale, shape, and material. He is noted for soft sculptures of stuffed cloth (e.g., ... Read more |
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New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more |
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electronic music
electronic music. Mus. prod. by elec. means, the resulting sounds being...should be remembered that in 1939–42 John Cage's first 3 Imaginary Landscapes incl...was given by Ussachevsky and Luening in Museum of Modern Art, NY, on 28 Oct. 1953... |
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Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and composer John Cage to inaugurate major new outdoor...
...Noguchi and composer John Cage, will join forces...April 5, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston...is part of the New Music America Festival...Kathy Whitmire and Museum of Fine Arts Director...scheme for the Houston Museum ... |
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Music a circus to John Cage
...garde composer John Cage will celebrate his...by attending a "Music Circus" in front...Angeles Children's Museum. "There will be...He wrote 12-tone music in 1934, organized...t play and the "music" was sounds made... |
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CAGE: NO MAESTRO, PLEASE!
...Symphony asked John Cage to compose a piece...explained this to music director Seiji Ozawa...important thing is the music." Cage reports...sometimes create music through the unplanned...that's OK with John ... |
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AMERICAN COMPOSERS: John Cage; The Avatar of Avant; The Man Who Saw Music...
...years. Still, John Cage (1912-1992...Everything we do is music," Cage once...In 1938, Cage joined Bonnie...his life. Cage presented the...New York's Museum of Modern Art...practically all the ... |
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JOHN CAGE CAPTAINS A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE -- In a concert at the Museum of Fine Arts last night. John Cage seems to be an inexhaustible...concert presented a variety of music from various periods of Cage...outside, a ... |
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Five days of classic Cage
...first learned about John Cage when he was a junior...of 20th-century music. Naturally it included...of Cage's piano music. Two years ago...over town -- at the Museum of Fine Arts, at...George Russell and ... |
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Entelechron piano trio to play Cage's music
The Andy Warhol Museum and the Music on the Edge series of the University...again to present iconic contemporary music. Saturday evening, the entelechron...trio will perform an evening of John Cage's music. Pianist Robert ... |
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ART REVIEW; Powered by SUN & WIND; Science and renewable energy...
...WRITER Benjamin Franklin and John Cage would love the Bakken Museum's new "Green Energy...rainmaking machine. And Cage, famous as the composer of "music" consisting of long stretches...Though best known as a museum of ... |
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AU HOSTS EVENTS FOR JOHN CAGE FESTIVAL.
...nature of Cage's work...standards of music. "He saw...University Museum was a perfect...performing John Cage's...a part of Cage's plan...University Museum as well as...with his music. "He ... |
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The Arts: Here's something I prepared earlier Just sitting down and playing...
...the American composer John Cage, the expressive potential...accelerated change in his music, in which - however...conducted research into the music of Erik Satie, and...month at the Whitney Museum Sculpture Court in New York. ... |
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