Charlotte Moorman performs Giuseppe Chiari’s ‘Per Arco,’ Asolo, Italy (c. 1975) (photo by Mario Parolin, courtesy of Charlotte Moorman Archive, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections ...
The Block Museum of Art has received a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Block Museum director Lisa Corrin said the Warhol grant will fund an exhibition the Block ...
The Block Museum of Art will present the first large-scale exhibition on 20th century musician and performance artist Charlotte Moorman — an artist who focused on the intersection between the public ...
Charlotte Moorman performs Nam June Paik’s TV Bed, West Germany, 1973. Credit: Hartmut Beifuss Multidisciplinary artist Charlotte Moorman’s experimental cello performances and avant-garde festival ...
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The obvious way to begin a review of “A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s-1980s” would be to describe the scandalous performances for which the late musician and ...
With the exhibition ‘Fluxuriös! Art and Anti-Art from the 1960s to the 1990s,’ the Archive of the Avant-Garde – Egidio Marzona (ADA) at the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) is presenting a new ...
Charlotte Moorman was an ambitious, classically trained cellist when she arrived in New York in 1957. She aimed to become a soloist, but the career she ultimately attained as an avant-garde ...
The cellist Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991) was an intrepid performer who was central to avant-garde culture in New York during the 1960s and ’70s—the “Jeanne d’Arc of New Music,” the composer Edgard ...
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s-1980s,' Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January 16-July 17, 2016; ...