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Along with John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham changed the face of dance, visual art, and music in a career that spanned 70 years:

International fame came to him before national fame. In due course he was acknowledged in America as one of its foremost artists, but for a time his work was known here only in specialist dance, art and music circles. Not so in London, Paris and other cities. There he was widely celebrated as the creator of a new classicism, as Diaghilev's successor, as one of the most remarkable theater artists of his day.

Yet he was always a creature of New York. Close to the founding members of the so-called New York Schools of Music, Painting and Poetry, Mr. Cunningham himself, along with Jerome Robbins and the younger Paul Taylor, led the way to founding what can retrospectively be called the New York School of Dance.

The world has lost a great artist.

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