Weeks after the truce trumpets sounded on October 10, the guns have barely fallen silent. Gaza’s skies may be quieter, but the killing has not stopped. The war has simply spilled sideways into Lebanon, Syria, and the occupied West Bank; widening the circle of violence while the world looks away. Even if Washington may call […]
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John Cage’s visual art as transporting and mystifying as his music
“There is no end to life,” John Cage wrote in 1990, two years before he died. John Cage, one of the 20th Century’s most inventive composers, devoted his music to silence and created confounding scores using “chance operations” from the “I Ching.” He also wrote beautifully; and late in life he applied his chance methods […]