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Mark Constantini / Getty Images Originally published on May 25, 2021 6:11 pm Influential choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin has died at age 100. Her art spanned high modernist works and collaborations with artists like John Cage to community-oriented projects that have helped guide people through serious illnesses. Her death was announced by her family; no other details were given. Born Anna Schuman in Winnetka, Ill., in 1920, Halprin began studying dance as a little girl. She later pursued her studies at the University of Wisconsin, where she met landscape architect Lawrence Halprin...

May 15, 2021 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Terry Riley decided to stay right where he was, which just so happened to be in Japan. The composer had arrived in the country in February 2020 to do preliminary work for a piece commissioned by an arts festival held on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. It was supposed to be the first hop on a three-month worldwide tour with his son, Gyan, to mark his 85th birthday. And then, well, things changed. “I got here, and then everything canceled,” Riley recalls, speaking over mugs of chai tea at his apartment in Yamanashi Prefecture,...

Dia 2.0: Facing the Future Jessica Morgan moves the art foundation beyond the sometimes swaggering heart of its Minimalist collection. Dan Flavin, “the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi),” a fluorescent light work at the newly renovated Dia Chelsea.Credit...Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Elizabeth Felicella April 23, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET In 1988, the Dia Art Foundation hosted one of the most momentous readings in postwar art history — the reclusive poet James Schuyler appeared before an audience for the first time in memory, occasioning a line down M...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Once upon a time, you could stand on the roof of 548 West 22nd Street, up among the water towers of Manhattan, with views out over the Hudson to New Jersey, and watch the city shimmer and reflect on the surfaces of one of Dan Graham’s glass pavilions. It was a New York moment. You could go downstairs, following the blue and green glow of a Dan Flavin light sculpture lining the stairwell, and see shows by leaders in contemporary European and American art reaching back to the 1960s. The galleries here, at Dia Center for the Arts, were some of the first to ...

Spring Heel Jack Is Outerlude My Favorite Things [*] - Spring Heel Jack, Hammerstein, Oscar Climb Ev'ry Mountain [*] - Spring Heel Jack, Hammerstein, Oscar Plenty of groups blend lounge and movie-soundtrack elements with contemporary beats to create sophisticated, kitschy party music. On Treader, Spring Heel Jack also display a fondness for such things. But the British outfit...   more » places strings, horns, and tinkling melodic percussion next to hyperkinetic drums, gulping bass, and other slippery sounds, creating a warped album that has nothing to do with ironic nostalgia. "Out...