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Paul Bley Quintet, "Barrage." Album cover designed by Michael Snow, 1964.

March 2009 Field Guide

Interview: Second Trienal Poli/Graficá de San Juan

New York, Paris and Stockholm: Survey of Surveys

London: Focus on Forsythe

Minneapolis: The Quick and the Dead

Washingon, DC: Guido van der Werve

North Adams, MA: These Days: Elegies for Modern Times

Nuremberg, Germany: Katinka Bock

Ghent, Belgium: Dara Birnbaum

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When Piet Mondrian arrived in New York in 1940, he discovered boogie woogie and his painting style forever changed. "Gone were the somber black lines, replaced by small yellow squares, which added a rhythm to how he was dividing the canvas," relates Daniel Soutif, the curator of this sprawling survey of jazz-related artwork from the past century. "So much of visual art relates to jazz." With nearly 10,000 objects — including painting, comic strips, musical scores, record sleeves (including the one pictured, designed by experimental filmmaker Michael Snow), and photographs, as well as music — this exhibition is a spirited celebration of improv and all that is hep to the jive.

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"The Jazz Century" originally appeared in the April 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' April 2009 Table of Contents.