Duchampian News & Reviews from institutions, scholars and fans

• The "Creative Act" by Marcel Duchamp

"Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity"... more

• Alison Knowles and the Gift on Histories and Theories of Intermedia

"Coeurs Volants." by Marcel Duchamp "Richard introduced me to Marcel Duchamp in order to execute the screen print "Coeurs Volants." The Something Else press needed permission to use the image of the flying hearts on a cover of a book called Sweethearts by Emmett Williams...more

• "Call for Artists: Urban Ready Mades"

2008-03-20 until 2008-09-23 Marcello's Art Factory den Haag, , NL Netherlands 'Marcello's Art Factory' in The Hague, Netherlands is currently hosting a project entitled 'Urban Ready Mades' which comes from the concept of "ready mades" made famous by artist Marcel Duchamp who was the first to introduce this oevre. What is an Urban Readymade? Site calls for your participation: YOUR OWN URBAN READY-MADE...Simply place your sign and it becomes art ! Checklist of requirements and conditions to declare a URM 1. Is it a street, an object, a building, a view or an event? 2. Is it an urban- and / or industrial environment? 3. Do you think of yourself as an artist or an architect? 4. Is it a public or semi-public environment and easy accessible? 5. Is it a monument? 6. Is it a touristic attraction or tourist-trap? 7. Is it a work of art? 8. Is it allready a URM? Only when you answer the questions 1 to 4 with YES and the questions 5 to 8 with NO than we could be talking about a true Urban Ready Made.

• Shallow Space - the theme of relief continues...
  Henry Moore Institute Leeds Exhibitions

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): Rotoreliefs 1935 mixed media Leeds Museums & Galleries (City Art Gallery) Professor Brandon Taylor has curated a new display from the Leeds collections which develops the current season's exploration of relief sculpture. Go to Henry Moore Institute Leeds Exhibitions

• Ford, Breton, and the Contents of the Duchamp View

Go to Chapter by Andrew Otwell, 1997.

• New York Armory Show of 1913 - International Exhibition of Modern Art

The 1913 Armory Show : Resources • Wikipedia • ToutFait.com • Welcome to the 1913 Armory Show , by Shelley Staples for the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia • Recording of Marcel Duchamp's Armory Show Lecture, 1963 • The Armory Show by Linda Larson • INTERACTIVE -- Magnify Main Gallery View by Prof. James R. Beniger • ArtLex.com • Timeline 1912-1913

• Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent:
Book Review Posted by Mr. Whiskets

• The Museum of Modern Art , New York City

March 2-May 12, 2008 This MOMA Exhibit features Duchamp's oil painting "T'um" "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" Go to interactive online exhibition

• The Turner/Chico Museum to Present Marcel Duchamp Art Exhibit/Lecture

March 12 - April 27, 2008 The exhibition “Marcel Duchamp: About the Large Glass and Related Works” will be held at The Turner/Chico Museum, March 12 to April 27, 2008. The centerpiece of this exhibition will be a replica of Duchamp’s major work The Large Glass that was produced in 1990 by Chico students under the direction of CSU, Chico Art Professor James McManus. Related works include reconstructions of Fountain, Three Standard Stoppages, and Bicycle. Joining these objects are important works by Marcel Duchamp, borrowed for this exhibition, including his Notes in a Green Box and A l’infinitif. More info at Chico Museum.

• Marcel Duchamp Redux Works At Pasadena Museum

April 25 - December 8, 2008 This year marks the 45th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s legendary retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, now the Norton Simon Museum, from April 25 to December 8, 2008. Organized by Director Walter Hopps in 1963, By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy­the first-ever retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre­featured 114 works of art, including major loans from Europe and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Arensberg collection. More info at HULIQ.com

• DUCHAMP, MAN RAY, PICABIA

February 21 - May 26, 2008 Curated by Jennifer Mundy, Head of Collection Research at Tate, with assistance from Nicholas Cullinan, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern, London, England.The exhibition will travel to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona from 19 June - 21 September 2008. Review in FT More info at Tate Modern

• Marco Milone's Review of Anemic Cinema

Duchamp used the initial payment on his inheritance to make Anemic Cinema and to go into the art business (Calvin Tomkins). The film was shot in Man Ray's studio with the help of cinematographer Marc Allégret. Various versions were made in 1920, 1923 and eventually in 1926. More info

• Dadascope

Dadascope (1961), directed by Hans Richter, contains two poems by Marcel Duchamp. “Carte Postale” and “Puns”. Todd Brook, Pendu.org More info

• Marcel Duchamp's Chess Games

Marcel Duchamp Number of games in database: 20 Years covered: 1924 to 1961 Overall record: +3 -10 =7 (32.5% )* ChessGames.com

• Past DADA Exhibition travels to USA

• Next stop for DADA at The Museum of Modern Art in New York NY June 18 - September 11, 2006 • Exhibition at The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC February 19 - May 14, 2006 • Link to official images of works • Exhibition at Pompidou October 5 2005 - January 9 2006 • Report on DADA Exhibition in Paris

• Catalogue on Exhibition

• Marcel Duchamp's Notes for the Large Glass
An Exhibition Proposal
Francis M. Naumann, June 24, 1998

• Marcel Duchamp & L'Érotisme -- Colloque International

• Harvard Symposium and Proceedings

(Click an image to enlarge) Poster Design by Rhonda Roland Shearer ( 25" x 32", $25 + $5 shipping )

The "Method of Understanding in Art and Science: The Case of Duchamp and Poincaré" took place at Harvard University Science Center on November 5-7, 1999. The Symposium aimed at examining concerns, relevant to and shared by the mathematician-philosopher Henry Poincaré and artist Marcel Duchamp, pertaining to issues that also promise to integrate the methodology and subject matter of art and science. During the three-day sessions, topics encompassed scholarly discussions such as unconscious intuition and choice during the creative process, the importance of doubt, the beauty of "gray matter" (mental beauty), and probabilistic systems sensitive to initial conditions in nature. Participants in this celebrated event were internationally acclaimed physicists, mathematicians, artists, and art historians including Gerald Holton, Arthur C. Danto, Hector Obalk, Bonnie Clearwater, Madeline Gins, Richard L. Gregory, David Joselit, Richard Brandt, André Gervais, Dieter Daniels, Craig Adcock, Herbert Molderings, Rhonda Roland Shearer, and the late professor Stephen Jay Gould.

Sponsored by Harvard's Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of the History of Science, the symposium proves successful at generating and furnishing discussions on the interactions, too often strained, between art and science. As a result, ASRL currently is pursuing a publication of the Symposium Proceedings to summarize and document the intellectual momentum of artscience in the format of a printed anthology.

For more information about the program schedules and sessions, please visit the Harvard Symposium page. If you would like to be notified as to the date of publication and its availability, please contact us at rrs@asrlab.org.