Works by Laurie Anderson and Steve Reich will share space at New York's Museum of Modern Art with the perhaps not surprising company of John Cage, Andy Warhol, and Sonic Youth and some slightly less likely pairings with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Devo, and The Cars. It's all a part of MoMA's multimedia exhibition Looking at Music, which begins today and runs through January 5, 2009, and explores the connections between art and music during the 1960s and '70s.
Works by Laurie Anderson and Steve Reich will share space at New York's Museum of Modern Art with the perhaps not surprising company of John Cage, Andy Warhol, and Sonic Youth and some slightly less likely pairings with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Devo, and The Cars. It's all a part of MoMA's multimedia exhibition Looking at Music, which begins today and runs through January 5, 2009.
"In the 1960s, the decade that saw astronauts land on the moon," reads the museum's website, "artists were likewise seeking to expand boundaries of time and space and to have new experiences." It describes the exhibition as an exploration of "the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others."
On Thursday, August 21, at 6 PM, Anderson's 1984 video "Sharkey's Day," will be among a number of music videos screened in an event titled Art and Music in Popular Culture, which also includes the Warhol-directed music video for The Cars's "Hello Again," Sonic Youth's video for "Tunic (Song for Karen)," and director Cory Arcangel's rendering of Hendrix's Woodstock performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
For more information, visit moma.org.
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