John Cage

As the fair returns to Santa Monica in 2025, take a look back at standout works, performances and initiatives from its first five editions

On the occasion of his new visual collection, the Magnum photographer lists five books that have influenced his artmaking practice

The renowned composer created a rousing piece of music with changing dynamics by manipulating the speed of sound

Sasha Frere-Jones pens a letter to Todd Haynes, the director of the new documentary, which charts the band’s illustrious career

A new retrospective celebrates the artist’s ability to warp technology

‘I felt as though I’d walked in on what the future of art-making could be: a curation of time and space between us and the world in which we exist’

Looking back at the intimate musical language of Luc Ferrari (1929-2005), who employed cinematic methods in the service of quotidian storytelling

John Cage, Untitled, installation at the Biennale de Paris, 1985 

A major exhibition in London opening this weekend shows that at 87, Jasper Johns is as commanding an artist as ever

A newly-released album gives overdue attention to the innovative, politicized music of the late Julius Eastman

How Indian classical music has influenced the visual arts

From Vladimir Nabokov's queerness to John Cage jamming with Sun Ra: what to read this weekend

Q. What should change? A. Religious obsessions.

‘That one artist has applied such a diversity of materials (paper, cloth, plants, violin, electronics) to such a breadth of pursuits (music, dance, publishing, performance art) is remarkable.’

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Depending on your point of view, the composer, writer and conductor is either a purveyor of cold-hearted didacticism, or a creator of glittering musical worlds

Henry Flynt talks about half a century’s worth of wildly divergent activities

Artist Gary Panter draws and discusses the books that have influenced him

The uniquely queer history of Matmos is a sprawling carnival with perverse interludes, bizarre objects and guest appearances

One hundred years of John Cage