| Reappraising Rodin's Work at the Musee Rodin |
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By Maria Goldverg
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posted:
05-18-11
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About a week ago an exhibit on modernist French sculptor Auguste Rodin opened at the eponymous Musee Rodin in Paris. As beautiful and monumental as Rodin's work may be, the appeal of the show lies as much in the fresh approach its curators have undertaken to shed a new critical light on the a ...more |
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| And the Avant-Garde Gesture of the Micro-Epoch Belongs to: You? |
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By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
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posted:
05-16-11
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| When I think back on the past several years, as to whether there was any artist who came forward with a move that resonated in that the-world-before-and-after, you-can-only-do-it-once sort of way (like say, Duchamp's submission of a urinal to the Salon Des Independants): well, the only thing that re ...more |
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| Fluxus, the Sprightly Godchild of Duchamp, Retrospectivized at Dartmouth |
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By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
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05-15-11
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Fluxus, the sprightly Godchild of Duchamp, has endless quantities of material around that will keep scholars and enthusiasts of conceptualism, antics, hijinks, and the general dada spirit busy for many years to come. A new exhibit at Dartmouth's Hood Museum: "Fluxus and the Essential Question ...more |
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| Markopoulos, Late Doyen of Avant-Garde Film To Have Final "Tenemos" |
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By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
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posted:
05-14-11
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| In Paul Auster's novel, the Book of Illusions, a silent movie star pulls a disappearing act after a terrible personal tragedy, and ends up at a secret location making genre-bending, rule-breaking films (which he would subsequently order burned Kafkaesquely). Later, a grief-struck scholar gets pull ...more |
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| In Defense of the Sharjah Art Biennial |
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By Maria Goldverg
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posted:
05-13-11
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The Sharjah Biennial, the oldest and most respected biennial in the Middle East hosted by the eponymous Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, is about to close its doors this Sunday, May 16. It remained opened for two months, and has, in that brief time, also become the focus of a ...more |
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