Merce Cunningham at Black Mountain College, 1948. Photo: Hazel Larsen Archer, courtesy of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
“...Cunningham’s notion of “common time”—the physical co-presence of disparate bodies, materials, and sounds united in one moment—echoes in the co-presentation between these two Midwestern museums, as well as in the polyphonic spaces of the galleries themselves.”