Article: John Cage: music for museums. (modern art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California)

John Cage, who died in 1992, aged 79, had long opposed the methods and choices practiced in museums and other established institutions, if not the very existence of such spaces. With his "Rolywholyover," an unusual exhibition which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in the fall and travels this month to Houston and later to New York, Mito, Japan, and Philadelphia, Cage was given a chance to make his own imprint on such a space, something no comparable venue in music--his primary medium--ever allowed him.

Freely transposing, a MOCA press release calls "Rolywholyover" a "composition for museum." Cage applied the chance operations for which he ...

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