John Cage's silent musical composition 4'33" is the most revolutionary work - in any medium - of the 20th century. Recent and upcoming exhibitions at HMKV in Dortmund Germany and the Berkeley Art ...

Washington offers an 8-day festival celebrating the centennial of John Cage, the polymathic artist — but can it dispel the idea that his compositions are less important than his philosophy?

Silence And Sound: Five Ways Of ... John Cage read 90 of his own tales — "autobiographical fragments," he called them; some funny, some melancholic — out loud in random order.

When he was 15 years old, future composer John Cage gave a speech, for an oratory contest, about Pan-American relations, in which he said that America should have her business, industries and all a… ...

Is John Cage’s 4’33” the most radical artwork of the 20th century? When it premiered at a concert hall in Woodstock, N.Y., in August 1952, the 39-year-old composer had already proven himself ...

LONDON (Reuters) - American avant-garde composer John Cage staged one of the world's first "happenings", used a remote-controlled blimp in one of his operas and turned a piano into a percussion ...

Today (Monday December 12) sees the release of Cage Against The Machine’s version of the John Cage piece 4’33", composed in 1952. Among the "supergroup" who assembled in the studio for the recording ...

John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. ... Cage’s conception of silence, though heavily and often debated, went beyond the idea of serene nothingness.

William Pope.L, Cage Unrequited, 2013 Photo: Paula Court, ... where a 25-hour marathon event blends spoken word and music in a tribute to John Cage’s 1961 book Silence.

John Cage: The Sight of Silence. As the great composer’s centennial year draws to a close, this show offers a glimpse of his considerable gifts as a visual artist, ...

A new biography of the composer John Cage, ... No one wrote better about Cage than he himself. “Silence,” his 1961 collection of essays, manifestoes and wry anecdotes, ...