Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly Kate Smith-Raabe Trajal Harrell

Trajal Harrell

Both artists rose to prominence in postwar America

Kerstin Renerig

in which Basquiat plays an unknown artist trying to survive in early 1980s New York

Inspired by the Tōjinbō Cliffs of Fukui Prefecture in Japan

Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly Kate Smith-Raabe Trajal HarrellThis book was published on the occasion of Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, an exhibition organized in 2025 by Museum Brandhorst, Munich, in cooperation with Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. The presentation focused on this circle of artists who had a decisive influence on postwar art in the fields of music, dance, painting, sculpture, and drawing. The friendships connecting the five artists