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June 30, 2014 | Artists, Intern Chronicles

Art in the Landscape: Exploring Marfa, TX

Posted by Jennie Waldow, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

This May, I had the opportunity to travel to Marfa, Texas, using a generous travel stipend that is one of the fantastic perks of my internship. I’d always wanted to go to Marfa, a small town in West Texas that’s home to site-specific installations by Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Ilya Kabakov, Dan Flavin, and Roni Horn, among others.

June 20, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions

Talking John Cage with David Platzker and Jon Hendricks

Posted by Jennie Waldow, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

John Cage. 4’33” (In Proportional Notation). 1952/53. Ink on paper, each page: 11 x 8 1/2″ (27.9 x 21.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Henry Kravis in honor of Marie-Josée Kravis, 2012. © 2014 John Cage Trust

I had the pleasure of speaking with David Platzker and Jon Hendricks, curators of </em>There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s 4’33”</a> (October 12, 2013 to June 22, 2014), about the development of the show. David Platzker has been Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, since May 2013. Jon Hendricks is an artist and Fluxus Consulting Curator of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection.

May 23, 2014 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

John Cage and the Northwest School

Posted by Jennie Waldow, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

Mark Tobey. The Void Devouring the Gadget Era. 1942. Tempera on board, 21 7/8 x 30″ (55.3 x 76.0 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist, 1964. © 2014 Estate of Mark Tobey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The first gallery of the exhibition There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s 4’33” contains works by John Cage’s contemporaries and influences, including such well-known names as Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Albers, Jasper Johns, Barnett Newman, and Robert Rauschenberg. Works by two lesser-known West Coast artists, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, also occupy this space, pointing to Cage’s brief but seminal years living in Seattle.

February 19, 2014 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Constructed Situations: Communicating the Influence of John Cage

Posted by Jennie Waldow, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

Through examining four pieces in The Museum of Modern Art’s collection, one can better understand how John Cage’s embrace of indeterminacy can be traced in the period following 4’33” (1952) and in more recent years, and how these later works play with the concepts of chance and the ephemeral in different ways.