ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!
ANNE CARSON ON SKYWRITING AND JOHN CAGE...
Join us at TSL in Hudson, NY, on Friday, March 20th at 7pm for a work-in-progress showing of PAUL LAZAR (BIG DANCE THEATER) in a new work featuring a text by Anne Carson.
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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!
Join us for our next CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE event, featuring Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater, taking place on March 19th, 3–4pm ET on Zoom.
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COMING SOON!
Join us at TSL in Hudson, NY, on Friday, March 20th at 7pm for a work-in-progress showing of PAUL LAZAR (BIG DANCE THEATER) in a new work featuring a text by Anne Carson.
Above, a sneak-peak from an early rehearsal.
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"Art's in the process of coming into it's own: life."
— John Cage
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Angelica Sanchez' "Bard College "Spontaneous Composition Ensemble" visited us at the John Cage Trust to be inspired by Cage's many graphic and even theatrically mind-expanding approaches to composing.
What a great evening!
Roger Berkowitz, the indefatigable Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College, visited us at the John Cage Trust. Here's Roger examining one of the many Cage artworks here (this one is "EninKa, a monotype made in 1986 at Crown Point Press in SF).
A group of young poets, all taking a class at Bard College with one of our favorite poets, Dawn Lundy Martin, came to the John Cage Trust for a tour of our archives and a workshop on writing mesostic poetry and using chance as a creative tool. They produced some wonderful and surprising poetry!
The publishers of The Song Cave press—Alan Felsenthal and Ben Estes—visited us at the John Cage Trust. Stay tuned: an incredible new John Cage book is in the pipeline!
TODAY!!
3pm—4pm ET
Close Encounters with John Cage: FLUXUS, ART, PERFORMANCE
With Sue Schroeder and Hugo Worthy, and featuring a filmed performance of John Cage/Ray Kass' STEPS: A COMPOSITION FOR A PAINTING.
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Fabulous artists Francine Hunter McGivern and Daniel Rothbart visited us at the John Cage Trust. A wonderful time with art and conversation — thank you, Francine and Daniel!
Publisher par excellence of NYRB Books, Edwin Frank, visited us at the John Cage Trust for mesostic talk and more.
Thanks, Edwin!
"An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actually." -- John Cage
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A bevy of delightful Bard College librarians and archivists joined us at the John Cage Trust for a "Librarial Afternoon" of chance operations engagement, library and archival talk, tours, and John Cage Cookies!
Thank you, all for coming by!
The fabulous current exhibition at the New York Public Library’s main building at 5th Avenue—TREASURES—features John Cage items from the Music Division as well as the Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection.
Thank you, NYPL!
Artists Kerry Downey and Emily Puthoff, and Bard Assistant Director of Career Development Elena Sniezek visited us at the John Cage Trust today to peruse some of our amazing collection of art and archival materials.
Thank you, Kerry, Emily, and Elena!
TODAY!
We kick off CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE. The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross will chat about Cage's first lover and his role in Cage's early intellectual and artistic development!
3–4pm, January 8th, free on Zoom.
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TOMORROW!
We kick off CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE. The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross will chat about Cage's first lover and his role in Cage's early intellectual and artistic development!
3–4pm, January 8th, free on Zoom.
Register though our Linktree on EventBrite.
Librarian/archivist extraordinaire E. Craig Reardon visited us at the John Cage Trust, with many excellent suggestions for archival preservation shared. Thank you, Craig!
Happy New Ears!
—John Cage
May 2026 by chance give us all our best year yet.
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We're launching our new online discussion series—CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE—with Guggenheim award-winning The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, discussing his recent essay on John Cage and his first lover, Don Sample.
Thursday, January 8th, 3–4pm ET, free on Zoom.
Register on EventBrite.
Two very special beings are waiting to greet you at the John Cage Trust!
Research, Education, and Digital Scholarship Librarian Jeremy Hall and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies and the Arts Luis Chavez visited us at the John Cage Trust for a tour of our collections.
Thank you Jeremy and Luis!
Choreographer/dancer Michael Spencer Phillips, a co-founder and co-artistic director of Site-Specific Dances visited us at the John Cage Trust today, along with videographer Emma Kazaryan, part of the team developing DEAR, ICEBOX: LETTERS FROM JOHN CAGE TO MERCE CUNNINGHAM into a dance theatre work.
More and more I have the feeling that we are getting nowhere.
—John Cage
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A lovely desert bloom, while looking out at the view from the John Cage Trust.
Music critic and writer Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim visited us at the John Cage Trust. We had a wonderful time examining graphic scores of John Cage and other treasures from our archive!
Heather Topcic, Dean of Libraries at Bard College, and visiting Artist-in-Residence Julia Weist visited us at the John Cage Trust to talk archives, art, and more.
Thank you, Heather and Julia!
The John Cage Trust mourns the loss of Alison Knowles.
Thank you for all the joy and inspiration.
And the tuna sandwiches.
We shall miss you greatly.
"Theater is only another word for designating life."
—John Cage
#JohnCageSays
Artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo brought her Bard College Advanced Drawing class to the John Cage Trust to examine art works by Cage, learn about chance operations, and then use some of these techniques to create their own gorgeous chance-determined works.
A beautiful day with these artists!
