John Cage "The Sight of Silence"
National Academy
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Best known as a ground-breaking composer and performer, John Cage was also a visual artist who created an extensive but little-known body of watercolors and prints over the last twenty years of his life. Opening at the National Academy Museum during the centennial year of Cage’s birth, The Sight of Silence: John Cage’s Watercolors and Works on Paper will focus on a compelling group of watercolors Cage created while visiting the Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia, in 1988 and 1990. Cage’s visual art will be presented within the context of his transdisciplinary practice that included experimental music, a strong interest in Zen and Eastern philosophies, and performance, providing an entrée into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most creative thinkers.
[Image: John Cage "75 Stones" (1989) Color spit bite, sugar lift, and aquatint on smoked paper]
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from September 12, 2012 to January 13, 2013