Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp
Erica Battle
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Explore the interwoven lives, radical art and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America’s most important postwar artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
Join 92YTribeca for a fun, inspiring look at world-class art and artists. Cap off the afternoon with wine and cheese selected by our chef at an intimate reception with our expert speaker.
Ticket & Reception From $32.
Brief Bio
Erica F. Battle is the co-curator of Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp (on view October 30, 2012 through January 21, 2013), which she is organizing for the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) in collaboration with Carlos Basualdo. Working in a curatorial capacity in the PMA’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art for six years, she has organized both ongoing collection displays and major special exhibitions. There, she has curated Everyday Disturbances (2011-12), a presentation of contemporary sculpture from the 1980s to today and Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s-1970s (2010), examining relationships between Post-Minimalism and Arte Povera. In 2009, she helped to organize the official U.S. entry to the 53rd Venice Biennale, Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, which garnered the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Additional past projects at PMA include Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974 and Cittadellarte (2010-11), Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni (2009), William Kentridge: Tapestries (2007-08), Kiefer Polke Richter (2007) and Marine Hugonnier: A Film Trilogy (2007). Battle received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania and obtained her masters degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
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