Modern Poets: John Cage Day

Celebrate the centenary of legendary artist, composer, philosopher, and writer John Cage with a series of readings, performances, musical compositions, and personal reflections by poets, writers, musicians, and scholars. Participants include writer and editor Richard Kostelantez; Joan Retallack, poet, essayist, critic, and John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College; pianist and toy-piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan; and poet, editor, and curator Roger van Voorhees. Throughout the day in the Museum’s public spaces, listen for soprano Catherine Hancock as she performs John Cage's Aria (1958). In the evening (at 6:30 p.m.), enjoy John Cage-composed and Cage-inspired percussion music during MoMA Nights, when Third Coast Percussion presents Revolution: The Cage Century. Photographer: Betty Freeman. Courtesy of the John Cage Trust.