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Featured: Robert Wilson/Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach Exhibition (NYC)

July 13, – November 4, 2012
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Robert Wilson, “Einstein on the Beach” 1976 storyboard drawings, graphite on paper, 9 3/4 x 9, leaf 7 of 13

Reuniting the score and designs from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, this exhibition focuses on the opera’s premiere performances in 1976. Visitors will enter a gallery awash in blue light where they will encounter Glass’s entire never-before-displayed autograph manuscript, as well as Wilson’s storyboard, thirteen leaves encompassing 113 scene designs. Footage from the New York rehearsal, and 1976 productions in Paris and Brussels will run continuously in the gallery; the documentary “Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera,” about the 1984 production at BAM, will be screened in the Morgan’s Gilder Lehrman Hall throughout the exhibition.
This exhibition is made possible by the Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Fund for Exhibitions.


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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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