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First published on Sun 27 Jun 2021 03.55 EDT Jon Hassell, the influential American avant garde composer who invented the global-minded “fourth world” musical aesthetic, has died aged 84. In a statement, his family said the “iconic trumpet player, author and composer” died in the early hours of 26 June, after just over a year of health complications. In spring 2020, Hassell broke his leg in a fall at his recording studio and spent four months recuperating in hospital, in isolation owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Hassell “cherished life and leaving this world was a struggle as ther...

Robert Barry , June 26th, 2021 08:15 With a survey of half a century of work currently on view at Almine Rech, American painter Larry Poons talks about Beethoven, baseball, and the teacher who believed in him as an artist before he did himself Larry Poons (2019) Warrior River Boy. Acrylic on canvas 170.2 x 281.9 cm “Painting is a fast medium. You go from here to there with a substance – and you do it quickly.” For Larry Poons everything is fast. Everything is immediate. Everything is now. So much so that talking about how you actually get there is liable to make him impatient. When I a...

The fearless work of the late avant-garde pianist is celebrated with a momentous new anthology, showcasing his immense talent and passion.

Yoshi Wada, inventive creator of sound worlds, dies at 77 Yoshi Wada performed at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Los Angeles in 2015. He created dense fields of sound with inventive techniques. Felix Salazar, via SASSAS via The New York Times. by William Robin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Yoshi Wada, a Japanese-born composer and artist who drew a following creating cacophonous, minimalist performances on homemade instruments and was a member of the Fluxus performance-art movement that took root in New York in the 1960s, died May 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 77. His son and musical colla...

Influential choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin has died at age 100. Her art spanned high modernist works and collaborations with artists like John Cage