John Cage’s teaching seeded an avant-garde network in New York

Evidence

Inspired largely by John Cage, who followed several stints teaching at Black Mountain College with a class in experimental composition at the New School for Social Research from fall 1956 to summer 1960, a kindred art gang was coalescing. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Cage as institutional seed-node connects to the reader’s test of whether culture-stagnation claims ignore the role of specific teacher-artist hubs.