Looking at Music: Media Art of the 1960s

  • Where: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • When: thru 01/05
  • Address: 11 W 53rd St, New York, New York, 10019
  • Cross Streets: 6th Avenue
  • Phone: 212.708.9400
  • Email:
  • Hours: Sat-Mon and Wed-Thu, 10:30am-5:30pm; Fri, 10:30am-8pm; Tue, closed
  • Closed: Tuesday
  • Transportation: E, V at Fifth Ave.-53rd St.; F at 57th St.
  • Directions: via Google Maps
  • Category: Museum, Group Show

In the 1960s, the decade that saw astronauts land on the moon, artists were likewise seeking to expand boundaries of time and space and to have new experiences. At the same time, portable video equipment reached the consumer market√¢‚Ǩ‚Äùsuddenly simultaneity and “now,” the present and the past, became content. Musicians led the way in developing new working methods, and music was at the forefront of interdisciplinary experimentation during the early days of media art. This exhibition looks at the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others.

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