PYTR 75 (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Daniel Arsham - Untitled (Suite of studies for the set of Merce Cunningham's eyeSpace) (2007) Daniel Arsham - Staircase (2005) Daniel Arsham - Lobby (2005) Daniel Arsham - EVER (2006) Daniel Arsham ( °1980, lives and works in New York and Miami, USA) http://www.danielarsham.com
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The work of choreographers like Merce Cunningham is notoriously hard to document and recreate. When the dancers depart, will the dances disappear?
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tacita Dean's Craneway Event "records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Craneway Pavilion," a converted automobile factory near San Francisco, about a year before Cunningham's death. Alastair Macaulay compares the documentary film to Degas's backstage-at-the-ballet paintings....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tacita Dean’s film “Craneway Event” records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Richmond, Calif., before the choreographer’s death.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Wednesday’s historic five-hour program celebrating his work featured great performances by Cunningham alumni.
Art (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
[ October 10, 2009 to January 3, 2010. ] Tacita Dean Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from October 10, 2009 to January 3, 2010 [ad#lb] How to choreograph silence. That was the challenge issued by artist Tacita Dean to the great American choreographer Merce Cunningham, who revolutionized modern dance. From October 10, 2009 to January 3, 2010, the Musée d’art contemporain...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
When Douglas Craig assumed control of Sadler’s Wells Theatre in 1970 some thought, with the departure of the Sadler’s Wells Opera (SWO), now English National Opera, to the Coliseum, the theatre would face a rocky period. Craig, with typical flair, set about creating a very definite identity for the theatre and built up an enviable reputation for Sadler’s Wells as the principal receiving...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
"Christie's will auction [Jasper Johns' 'Dancers on a Plane'] and other presents to [Merce] Cunningham, the dancer and choreographer who died in July, and his partner in work and life, the composer John Cage, who died in 1992. Proceeds from the sale, expected to total $3.5 million to $5 million, will benefit the Merce Cunningham Trust...."...
BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
[Image: Yousef Al-Mehdari]. A few weeks ago I mentioned some 3D-printed work by Yousef Al-Mehdari, a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture . That work is now pictured here, in a proposal for a site on the island republic of Malta. [Image: Malta, just south of Sicily, in the exact center of the image]. The project explores religious ritual and the human body, alongside an interest in "transitory...
Mercury News (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
With recessionary pressures continuing to bear down, presenters scaling back and the death last month of choreographer Merce Cunningham, the season brings slimmer offerings than usual. But fortunately a good many events '” including the Mark Morris Dance Group at Cal Performances '” will set a dance lover's pulse racing.
From Beyond the Stave (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Surely any time traveller with an interest in the arts would want to touch down at the Black Mountain College in the ‘forties and ‘fifties. Who could resist painting with Willem de Kooning , discussing poetry with Jonathan Williams or building a geodesic dome with Buckminster Fuller ? Had you been there in 1952 you might have witnessed, arguably, the first ‘Happening’ featuring...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
"With the news of Merce Cunningham's death has come a blizzard of wonderful photographic portraits of the dancer in action. He was a great camera subject, often caught in mid-flight, lyrical yet hyperbolic, arrestingly individualistic. To this extraordinary photographic record … I would like to add a small trove of images of Cunningham from around 1946, which unlike so much of what we have...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
"The tenders of Merce Cunningham's flame are now known. The dance foundation devoted to the choreographer, who died at 90 on July 26, named on Wednesday the four individuals Mr. Cunningham had selected as trustees of his life's work."...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
When a great choreographer dies, does their work die with them? Merce Cunningham once wrote: "You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive." No other choreographer celebrated the ephemeral quality of dance in quite the...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Joan Acocella: "Merce Cunningham's signal achievement is that he established modernism--abstraction, decentralization--in dance. In consequence, some people loathed his work, thought it was a prank. Which meant, of course, that others were required to like it. ... Now, perhaps, audiences will be able to think about him more clearly."...
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