Patrick Nickleson News Today

Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum/Davvi Norga Dáiddamusea is delighted to present A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak, the first solo exhibition in Europe of artist and musician Raven Chacon.

Swiss Institute is pleased to present Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak and Lorenza Longhi: World of Yum Yum.

Theory is the thing here, this is a study of theories. It does gesture at practices, but in ways that show how thinking and writing about improvisation are so beholden to theory that the book is full of claims that sound like they are being made by an alien, sent to study the human race and report back on the marvelous, intriguing strangeness of all these creatures.

As centenary events celebrate Simeon ten Holt’s work, music historians have questioned his omission from histories of Minimalism, and its focus on American greats.