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Merce Cunningham Centennial

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Christopher George

Barbara Morgan, Merce Cunningham – Totem Ancestor, 1942 (545.1986) Totem Ancestor: Choreography: Merce Cunningham; Music: John Cage; Costumes: Charlotte Trowbridge) Arnold Eagle, Merce Cunningham in Appalachian Spring, Martha Graham Company, 1944 (552.1987) Appalachian Spring: Choreography: Martha Graham; Music: Aaron Copland; … Continue reading →

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Spring (“creation is the thing”)

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Christopher George

Barbara Morgan, Spring on Madison Square, 1938 (printed ca. 1978) (532.1986) Barbara Morgan (1900-1992) at ICP, October 15, 1983, speaking about her origins as an artist, how she learned about photography, husband Willard Morgan’s prediction that photography will be the … Continue reading →

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Merce Cunningham

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Christopher George

Barbara Morgan, Merce Cunningham – Totem Ancestor, 1942 (545.1986) (Totem Ancestor: Choreography: Merce Cunningham; Music: John Cage; Costumes: Charlotte Trowbridge) Arnold Eagle, Merce Cunningham in Appalachian Spring, Martha Graham Company, 1944 (552.1987) (Appalachian Spring: Choreography: Martha Graham; Music: Aaron Copland; … Continue reading →

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Ilse Bing: “It’s better.”

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Christopher George

Ilse Bing, Three Men on Steps near the Seine, 1931 (16.1991) Ilse Bing, Danseuses à l’école Laban, 1929 (29.1991) Ilse Bing, The Honorable Daisy Fellowes, Gloves by Dent in London for Harper’s Bazaar, 1933 (17.1991) Ilse Bing, [Two shoes and … Continue reading →

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Strangeness and the ordinary

Posted on June 8, 2015 by claartjevandijk

Toby Old,  Hooker’s Ball, Copacabana, NYC, 1976 (274.1995) Toby Old,  Xenon Disco, NYC, 1978 (69.1995) Toby Old,  Body-building Championship, Syracuse, NY, 1980 (64.1995) Toby Old,  FDR Psychiatric Hospital, Montrose, NY, 1988 (76.1995) Toby Old,  FDR Psychiatric Hospital, Montrose, NY, 1989 … Continue reading →

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Fall for Dance

Posted on October 1, 2013 by mahulme

Barbara Morgan, Martha Graham–Letter to the World, 1940 (528.1986) Russell Lee, Negro cabaret, Chicago, April 1941 (80.2003) Arthur Rothstein, Tanaquil LeClercq, Ballerina, 1950 (208.1989) Barbara Morgan, José Limón–Cowboy Song, 1944 (531.1986) Fall is dance season in New York, with plenty … Continue reading →

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Theories of Motion

Posted on May 31, 2013 by rosemathies

In May of last year, MIT’s Kurtz Gallery for Photography opened with its first exhibition featuring Berenice Abbott. Abbott was hired by MIT to develop photographic imagery for the teachings of physics and spent two years using photography to document the … Continue reading →

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Joseph Cornell and the Dance

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Christopher George

Dance Index, vol. 1, no. 1, (cover, “Hommage a Isadora Duncan,” designed by Joseph Cornell), January 1942 Dance Index, vol. 1, no. 3, (cover, frames of a hand colored 35mm film made in Paris in 1905 of Loie Fuller’s Fire … Continue reading →

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