Tag Archives: John Cage

patchen: painting poems

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, art chantry, Charles Mingus, E.E. Cummings, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, John Cage, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Langston Hughes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

dancing with phantoms

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Dave

…ghost dance and cargo cult…In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake of Mohammed, Lenin or the Teacher of Righteousness. America is always ready willing and able for any millennial cult that presents itself… … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Cargo Cults, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Father Groppi, John Cage, Kenneth Knowlton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Malcolm X Black Muslims, Martin Luther, Neil Krug, Noam Chomsky, Peter Zinovieff, Pontiac Indian Chief, Slavoj Zizek, Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

two pairs are better than one

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Dave

When they were playing, the duo-pianists Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale were everyone’s delight; and when they were at a party, they were everyone’s despair. For the specific things that characterized their work on stage, the qualities that made it … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Aaron Copeland, Alison Chang, Arthur Gold, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, Bartlett and Robertson, Dave Brubeck Gold and Fizdale, duo-pianists, Felix Mendelssohn, Gold and Fizdale, John Cage, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maier and Pattison, Marianne Moore, Misia Sert, Paul Bowles, Samuel Barber, Sarah Bernhardt | Leave a comment

the look of culture falling apart

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: i’m no expert on FLUXUS or the main man behind it (“Mr. FLUXUS”), george maciunas. in fact, FLUXUS is even difficult to describe. maciunas called it ‘aganst art’ or something to that affect. the bottom line is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Al Hansen, Alison Knowles, art chantry, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Snyder, Film Culture magazine, George Brecht, george macunias, george macunias fluxus, Joe Jones, John Cage, John Giorno, John Lennon, Joseph Beuys, Larry Miller, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Olga Adorno, Robert Watts, Takehisa Kosugi, W.B. Yeats, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

Accidental art: relationships with the dice

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

It was a time of accidental art. Where artists let sheer happenstance paint their pictures or a throw of the dice shape their music; a deliberate effort it seemed, to avoid making decisions. An art of escape and procrastination. … … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Georges Mathieu painting, Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Lewis Carroll, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Stockhausen, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

dada chess: logic vs. transcendence

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Dave

Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Charles Baudelaire, Dada Movement, Gary Kasparov, John Cage, John Tenniel, Karl Marx, Lenin, Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Duchamp, Maxim Gorky, Sandrine Bonnaire, Slavoj Zizek, Tristan Tzara | Leave a comment

$ AS A READY-MADE : TZANCK You For The CHECKS

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave

Conceptual art will soon be one hundred years old and it is arguably viewed with as much suspicion now as it was in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp first submitted a signed urinal for inclusion in an art show in New … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Anish Kapoor, Anna Davin, Berel Lang, Brooke Lundquist, Carlo Ginzburg, Carolee Thea, Chris Evans, Damien Hirst, Dennis Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, Gustav Metzger, Jacques Derrida, Jean Crotti, Jean Doucet, John Cage, John Weretka, Julien Levy, Katherine Dreir, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Man Ray, Marc Quinn, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Duchamps, Michel Foucault, Nelson Goodman, Olav Velthuis, Peter Burger, Rachael Milsk, Richard Dorment, Roland Barthes, Thiher, Thomas Andrae, Walter Arensberg, Walter Hopps | Leave a comment

REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Dave

” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading →