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Manhattan print studio The Contemporaries and its founder helped to establish a mid-century market

As remarkable as the Oregon philanthropist's 22,000-strong collection is his mission to exhibit it as widely as possible. Here, he explains the urge to share.

Uniting prints and drawings by experimental composer John Cage as well as jazz pianist (and Houston native) Jason Moran, this cross-generational exhibition from two musical innovators-cum-visual artists is mutually enlightening, if counterintuitive. Cage, an influential proponent of chance and indeterminacy, was notoriously hostile to improvisational practices (e.g., jazz) for their tendency to fall back on inherently clichéd and ego-driven expressionist patterns. Yet his turn to printmaking in the late 1970s—on the urging of Kathan Brown, the founder of San Francisco’s Crown Point Pressâ...

Featuring A Selection of Rare and Important Prints from Wayne Thiebaud and Jasper Johns Phillips will offer 10 Works from the Family Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret ...

Featuring A Selection of Rare and Important Prints from Wayne Thiebaud and Jasper Johns Phillips will offer 10 Works from the Family Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret ...