Former Walker Director Martin Friedman Remembers Mushroom Adventures With John Cage — artnews.com

As part of its 75th-anniversary celebrations, Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center is running on its website unpublished writings by Martin Friedman, who directed the museum from 1961 to 1990 and made it into one of the most progressive institutions for contemporary art in the country. The articles are awesome. One published this week concerns John Cage’s many visits to the Twin Cities. Here’s an excerpt having to do with the composer’s love for mushroom hunting and analysis:

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