In the 1940s, painter John Heliker produced several portraits and sketches of Merce Cunningham, the celebrated dancer and choreographer. These images are exquisite and have never before been released.

Cunningham is not quite a biographical portrait, though we do hear a bit ... the director of the John Cage Trust and a trustee of the Merce Cunningham Trust, the book is an intimate look inside ...

Though this memoir offers more than a portrait of Cunningham ... continually returning to his work. Dancing with Merce Cunningham is topped-off by a promising afterword by Alastair Macaulay ...

Do not e-mail Merce Cunningham. Yes, he's an "avant" in the ... to create "Pink Ladies & Crimson Gents: Portraits and Legends of 50 Roses" (2008, Clarkson Potter), a book about the human culture ...

For some, the work of Merce Cunningham is regarded as genius. How else to explain the late contemporary choreographer’s ability, in 1983, to fuse Irish-influenced jigs, duets, and reels with the ...

Elaine de Kooning greatly enjoyed painting portraits of her friends. When she was living in New York City in the 1950s, her circle included the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Merce Cunningham and Robert ...

About two-thirds of the way through the documentary “Cunningham,” Merce Cunningham’s close ... to create "Pink Ladies & Crimson Gents: Portraits and Legends of 50 Roses" (2008, Clarkson ...

Merce Cunningham. Since his first dance work in 1942, he made dances that shocked, delighted and annoyed. This portrait is packed with rare archive footage of the company, and early company ...

“Merce Cunningham” director Charles Atlas answers ... My goal in making the film was to create an intimate portrait of a working artist and a unique thinker. Cunningham is still, at age ...

I first came to know Merce Cunningham as his student ... and George Clooney stars in a timely portrait of media courage. Also: Rachel Syme on the latest in charms, the Chicago rapper Saba ...