Philadelphia Museum of Art Celebrates the Avant-garde with 'Dancing around the Bride'

John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg, 1964

By A.D. AMOROSI

Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) is one of the most crucial artists of the 20th Century, a father of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, a spiritual godfather to the Pop Art revolution, an adviser to some of the most important museums, curators and collectors in America before his passing in 1968. That this avant-garde avatar’s most notorious works reside in a wing of the Philadelphia Museum of Art has forever made this city magnetic north for any experimental artist worth his salt. Pre-Pop painters Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg visited Philly’s Art Museum often throughout the 50s, intersected with composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham and together – whether by accident or on purpose – formed a perfect union of where the American avant-garde would go. Starting October 30 (and running through January 2013), a Philadelphia Art Museum (PMA) exhibition Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp, celebrates that union.
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