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With a final series of performances beginning tonight and continuing through New Year’s Eve at the Park Avenue Armory, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will close, ending nearly sixty years in operation.
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After a whirlwind of parties, events and an overwhelming amount of art at Art Basel Miami, we have just what you need to settle back into the New York swing of things. This week's Art Rx is a mixed bag of shows and events around the city that include some of the last performances of the Merce Cunnin
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Dear Merce Cunningham, As your company comes to a close this winter, I have been on the look out for all things Merce. Wanting to understand you better and hoping that I could still understand you even after you have passed, I visited Charles Atlas's video tribute to you now at the New Museum not ju
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In the summer of 1952, artist Jack Tworkov traveled to Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina. A leading figure of the New York School, his time at the influential American school, which some people consider "America's Bauhaus," is the subject of a new exhibition. We talked to the curat
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The Star-Tribune has the story of how Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota purchased a treasure trove of American art accumulated by dance legend Merce Cunningham. The stash "includes at least 150 major objects and perhaps thousands of smaller items," according to the newspaper.
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Following up on Merel van Beeren's investigation into the future of Merce Cunningham's Studio after its founder's death, we bring you a graphic history of the intersection of visual art and modern dance. From Cunningham collaborating with John Cage, his life partner, and Robert Rauschenberg, to scul
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A small group of dance students recently gathered on the floor of the Cunningham Studio to try to save their dance program from an early death. “There's no way the studio won't make it,” Suzanne Thomas, a French student, said. She is passionate about preserving it for a reason: “Pure Cunningham does