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Kay Larson

Author, Art Critic & Practicing Buddhist

Welcome new friends from the

FIVE FRIENDS: JOHN CAGE, MERCE CUNNINGHAM, JASPER JOHNS, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, CY TWOMBLY

exhibition at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany!

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Cage Was Not Only All Ears, He Was All Eyes, Too

by Kay Larson

February 4, 2025 – New York Times Arts & Architecture Section

Music Is Everywhere: John Cage At 100

NPR Music News
featuring Kay Larson

September 5, 2012 – All Things Considered

Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan

Radio 3 Documentary
featuring Kay Larson

July 15, 2020 – BBC Radio

Essays on Buddhism


The Road to McLeod Ganj

by Kay Larson

2008 – Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Journal

Anonymous

by Kay Larson

2014 – Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Journal

Who is Avalokiteshvara?

by Kay Larson

2018 – Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Journal

art criticism

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Karma? Top Floor, Next to Shoes

by Kay Larson

July 25, 2004 – New York Times Arts Section

Dividing the Light from the Darkness

by Kay Larson

January 1981 edition of Artforum magazine

I Slept in Roden Crater

by Kay Larson

June 1, 2004 – ARTnews

“In her thoughtful and eloquent writing, Kay Larson beautifully conveys John Cage’s playful elegance, his love of contradiction and the originality of his thinking. She describes his method as a balance between rigor and freedom, a synchronization of body and mind.”

— Meredith Monk, composer, director, performer