John Cage
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Other lives: Jazz and avant-garde music enthusiast who set up a charity to promote his favourite kind of music
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Fans gather in a German church to hear the first new sound in John Cage’s composition, Organ/ASLSP, for six years
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Despite one foraging trip landing him in hospital, the avant garde composer held a lifelong passion for mycology
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3 out of 5 stars.This highbrow study is fascinating less for its fancy 3D footsteps than for its insight into choreographer Merce Cunningham’s life and work
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A superb documentary immerses you in the choreographer’s creations and shows off his own wild and weightless performances
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They’re principled, they’re powerful and they make the art world jumpy. As the Turner prize is split four ways, we look at how collectives are shaking things up
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4 out of 5 stars.Inspired by John Cage, the harpsichordist experimented with indeterminacy, played pulsating duets with prerecorded versions of himself, and consulted a computerised version of the I Ching
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Many have joined in the search for silence, but perhaps there is no such thing, writes Alex Wragge-Morley
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With their lightbulbs, chairs and signs from the street, Rauschenberg’s sculptures reshaped art in the 20th century
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Minimalist music is far from a modern invention. The violinist picks her favourite works that prove that you can get something out of nothing
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Dropped into his pupil’s notes when his back was turned, the 10-minute piece lay undisturbed for years until it was discovered in December
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Anything is fair game for the artists who create ‘happenings’ – from explicit movies to plays without actors to virtuoso displays of street cleaning. And if it sometimes falls flat … well, at least they tried
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He inspired the Velvet Underground, thought Andy Warhol was a copycat, and met his wife while playing the mummy in erotic underground movie Normal Love. Tony Conrad talks sex, drugs and celluloid fry-ups in a power plant in Berlin
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Think Silicon Valley has a monopoly on tech disruption? In 1966, New York hosted an art-tech mashup on an unrivalled scale, as John Cage, Yvonne Rainer and friends got plugged in for a spectacular set of public performances
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16 November 1989: In a classic interview from our archive Gerald Larner finds composer John Cage, famous for the rebellious poise of his atonal music, writing harmonies
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5 out of 5 stars.A sombre and uplifting procession of musical relationships
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