Before there was Minimalism there was Post-Minimalism. That might seem hardly feasible if you put your trust in time being an irreversible process. Theoretical physics, however, allows for a more open ...

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MINIMALISM is the elevation of tidiness, of less is more, of hip reserve, to art (to say nothing of advertising and kitchen decor). The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s flier for its “Minimalist Jukebox” ...

Arizona Repertory Theatre presents its closing show of the season, “”Violet,”” in Tornabene Theatre, and the performance entertains. The show follows a girl named Violet on her pilgrimage to Tulsa, ...

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four,” the avant-garde composer John Cage once said. “If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it ...

Much like jazz, the origin story of minimalism is messy and hard to pin down to a date. And like jazz, definitions of minimalism can be rather slippery or downright contentious. Such challenges, ...

Springing from the remains of several promising independent Washington, D.C., bands, the trio Antelope began in 2001, striving to reach the stripped-down essence of rock-verging-on-punk music. Then, ...

What does one get the composer who has everything? If the gift’s recipient is John Adams and the giver is his longtime record label Nonesuch, then the answer is “John Adams Collected Works,” a ...

Known for their “cool detachment,” the Cars found a musical sweet spot with spiky power pop buffed into a commercial sheen.