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If the purpose of art is to reflect and illuminate the spirit of its age, then New York City's avant-garde scene in the '60s and early '70s was a worthy expression of a tumultuous time. Huddled together in a few low-rent blocks of lower Manhattan, a remarkable...
Adventuresome audiences that had made the pilgrimage downtown to Leo Castelli's influential art gallery on West Broadway in SoHo, for example, might encounter minimalist sculpture by Don Judd and Richard Serra or hear Glass's new sounds in concert. Near by, Performance Artist Anderson was playing her violin on...
Just how far the pendulum has swung is evident in Available Light, which travels to the Brooklyn Academy of Music later this month. Childs, who collaborated earlier with fellow avant-gardists such as Composer Philip Glass and Theater Artist Robert Wilson, is a cool rationalist who favors organizational clarity over...
Both Gehry and Adams have a surer sense of drama. The architect's installation, in a converted downtown warehouse, is strongly articulated by his fondness for raw wood surfaces and chain-link fencing. The precariousness of the dancers' position-the lower and larger of the two stages reaches...
Striking though the individual elements are, they do not always mesh. Although Childs says her dance is closely allied with Adams' music, too often the two clash: the sounds urgent, the movements passive. Further, visual minimalism palls more quickly than its aural counterpart, and beside Adams' expanded vocabulary...