John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg outside Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London during the 1964 world tour of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; photo by Douglas H. Jeffrey, courtesy Merce Cunningham Trust
If you’re looking for a worthwhile day trip, you can always consider Philadelphia. As a handful of enthusiastic curators from the Philadelphia Museum of Art made clear during a press briefing at the Standard Hotel restaurant in New York, May 11, 2012, the museum -- which is currently undergoing a slew of renovations and additions helmed by architect Frank Gehry -- has an exhibition line-up that should compel even the most committed New Yorker to cross state lines.
