The Limitless Potentiality of Music
Rorem has no patience for music that blurs the distinction between life and the art of music. Music must retain its sacred quality connected to the artist’s inner world.
Not Just a Neutral Container
We need this show because it has taken this long to understand the truly radical implications of Duchamp’s visual thinking— to grasp the ways that his concern was to transform not only the nature of the artwork, but also the institutions that house artworks, art museums.