Pittsburgh musician Merce Lemon released her new album, Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild, today via Darling; stream it below. In our Notable Releases review, we wrote, “Merce Lemon took a break from ...

The influence of the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) looms so large that the current tribute to him spans not just multiple departments of one museum, but two entire museums in ...

Modern dance is an art focused on the idea of the new. With that focus comes a struggle with the past: when its creators pass on, how do you preserve their legacy? That issue has been at the forefront ...

Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde and unconventional choreographer known for his modernistic approach to dance, died in July at the age of 90. Bill T. Jones, also a choreographer, remembers Cunningham ...

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New York City’s Merce Cunningham Trust (MCT) has named Ken Tabachnick as its new executive director, the trust announced yesterday. He is due to begin as soon as November 28. As director, Tabachnick ...

Six years ago, Will Oldham shared a story about meeting Johnny Cash for the first time, in Hollywood during JR’s recording of “I See a Darkness” for Solitary Man, in 2000—the third installment in his ...

When Merce Cunningham was a young man, time was a pesky element he could seemingly bend to his will. Suspended in the air in a stag leap—one leg crooked forward, the other kicked back, torso erect, ...

Installation view of Merce Cunningham: For Camera on the High Line (image by the author for Hyperallergic) In Locale (1980), a thirty-minute film collaboration between Charles Atlas and the Merce ...

“Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event” was a celebration of Merce Cunningham on what would have been the 100th birthday of one the most pioneering and influential choreographers in contemporary ...

On the staff of The New Yorker for more than 60 years, he wrote about Duchamp, Rauschenberg and many others. His books include “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.” By William Grimes The Trisha Brown ...