CAGE AND CAKE

          Do you want to see a picture of John Cage feeding Peggy Guggenheim?  Well, it could do no harm, could it? 

 

The picture comes from the website of Northwestern University with the caption, ‘In 1962, composer John Cage made his first trip to Japan on a month long tour sponsored by the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo. He was accompanied by a few friends including Peggy Guggenheim. The two had been close for years by the time of the 1962 tour, and Cage invited her because she had always wanted to visit Japan. In this photo, the two are seen sharing a bit of cake.’ —Greg MacAyeal.

 

The implication is that they’re in Japan but it doesn’t actually say so, and for that matter I’m not 100 per cent sure that’s a bit of cake - that glass looks wrong for cake.  Could it be the sponge at the bottom of a trifle?

 

No such ambiguity here:

 

Or here.