Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition

This event recurs on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from June 27, 2026 – July 12, 2026
Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition brings together a dazzling variety of archival items—from twenty-two collections—to create an unexpected cabinet of curiosities. For this collaboration between the John Cage Trust and Bard College’s Stevenson Library, John Cage’s methods of chance procedures were used as a tool for anarchic curation. The exhibition includes items as varied as Hannah Arendt's kitchen cabinet door, a small work by Marcel Duchamp created for Cage, and even a dirt-encrusted construction hardhat from Bard's Building & Grounds. The exhibition takes inspiration from Cage’s Museumcircle, an exhibition he curated using chance procedures in 1991 for Munich’s Pinakotech de Moderne art museum as a model for his posthumously installed exhibition, Rolywholyover: A Circus.

Free & open to the public. Exhibition runs through July 12th, 2026

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For more information, call 917-609-7112, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Stevenson Library