Word: moderna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works detailing the myriad ways in which artists have viewed the mysterious powers that inhabit cogs, gears and transistors, opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.* The exhibit (see color pages) was put together by K. G. Pontus Hulten, 44, who as director of Stockholm's Moderna Museet staged one of the first kinetic art shows back...
Stockholm's classy Moderna Museet knocked itself blue putting on a giant show celebrating American Popinjay Andy Warhol, 36. This earned the supreme tribute-an appearance by the artist himself, with his clownish protégée, Viva, in tow and cutting up for photographers. "I was going to send someone that looked like me," said Warhol. "It worked once before." So it did, just three weeks ago, in fact, when Warhol without notice sent a buddy named Alan Midgette to impersonate him in a lecture tour of Western colleges. The ruse wasn't uncovered until someone...
...performances," Stock-hausen has given his instrumentalist sixteen pages of music which he may play in any order he chooses. Not having heard the work before, I found it difficult to determine whether the choice of the percussionist, Alain Jacquet, was a felicitous one. Zyklus was followed by Bruno Moderna's Musica su duo dimenzione, a dialogue for flute and stereo tape. The tape inedium offers the composer a chance to shape his sound as he proceeds, and Mr. Moderna's final decisions are quite obviously the result of considerable experimentation. The program opened with the World Premiere...