John Cage

Biennials & festivalsreview

Art festival in Norway embraces the sounds of the Arctic Circle

At the Lofoten International Art Festival, music and sound art complement a majestic landscape of fjords and mountains

Elena Goukassian

Obituariesfeature

Remembering Paul Auster, the ground-breaking novelist who fused art and literature

The New Yorker's collaboration with the artist Sophie Calle was just one way in which art was interlaced with his life and work

Ben Luke

Museums & Heritagenews

As Iceland braces for the winter, museums lobby for more storage

Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril

Tom Seymour

Fundingnews

Jasper Johns’s ‘mutual aid’ organisation for artists receives almost $9m from the estate of Los Angeles gallerist Margo Leavin

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been selling works donated by visual artists to fund those working in experimental forms and performance since 1963

Elena Goukassian

Book Clubfeature

In Pictures | John Cage’s lifelong obsession with mushrooms

A new book looks at the artist and composer's love of all things mycological, including his fungi photograph collection and collaboration with illustrator Lois Long

José da Silva

Featuresarchive

Music to the ears of the post-war avant garde: exhibitions mark the 100th anniversary of composer John Cage's birth

The celebrations of his life show how much he influenced—and was influenced by—some of the greats of American 20th-century art

Ben Luke