Marjorie Strider Paints a New Woman for Duchamp

March 12, 2011 Her work hasn't been exhibited in New York for fifteen years, but pop-artist Marjorie Strider has finally returned to Hollis Taggart Galleries where her much anticipated show opened on March 8th. Her art, happily, remains as we remember it. Bikini-clad women, painted in flat blocks of acrylic paint, playfully engage their audience. And these ladies have real 'depth' to them: in some pieces, the more desirous parts of their bodies physically project out from the can.. read more...

“Alias Man Ray” selected for Art Critics’ Award

March 10, 2011 The Jewish Museum's 2009 exhibit "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention" brought together an unprecedentedly broad spectrum of output by Marcel Duchamp's friend, co-conspirator and occasional portraitist, Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky). It also contextualized 20th century avant-garde production in relation to the Jewish immigrant experience. The exhibit's different sections catalogued the nomadic wanderings of the man who, much to his chagrin, would become known.. read more...

Looking for Duchamp at the 2011 Armory Show

March 8, 2011 New York's largest premiere world art fair, The Armory Show, just closed its doors after a truly hectic and overwhelming weekend at Piers 92 and 94. Though the fair has been running every spring since its revival in 1994, this year it hosted a truly gargantuan number of contemporary and modern works exhibited by 274 galleries representing 31 countries from around the world. It was, of course, in 1913 that the original Armory Show, otherwise known as the International Exh.. read more...

Duchamp at the Great Upheaval, Guggenheim

March 8, 2011 Guggenheim's new exhibit, "The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim's Collection" (1910-1918), tries to capture and encapsulate the eclectic and experimental art scenes that permeated Europe at the dawn of the tumultuous 20th century. Among the vanguard of this explosive artistic revolution were artists such as Franz Marc, Piet Mondrian, Vasily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.    Duchamp, in this exhibition, is .. read more...

Found Pop Detritus = Readymade?

March 7, 2011 "Back in 1917, when Marcel Duchamp originated the notion of "found art" by attempting to enter a porcelain urinal into a gallery show as a piece of sculpture, he probably never imagined that someday, hundreds would gather in dark rooms to watch big-haired exercise videos, scary corporate-training films and screamingly unfunny televangelist comedians." The LA Weekly writer Scott Timberg is right. Why, indeed, is Duchamp's spirit being invoked in conju.. read more...

Duchamp at the Anatomy/Academy, PAFA

March 6, 2011 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in its new exhibition, Anatomy/Academy, in the Fisher Brooks Gallery in PAFA’s Hamilton Building, examines the interface of art and science and its continued role in expanding the frontiers of our knowledge of the human body.  The exhibition centers on the seminal work of scientists, artists and doctors (many of whom were members or affiliates of the school) between the founding of PAFA as the nation&rsquo.. read more...

Marcel Dzama’s Behind Every Curtain: Patterned by Duchamp

March 5, 2011 To say that Marcel Dzama, a French-Canadian favorite of the New York art world, was influenced by Duchamp's preoccupation with chess would not be wholly accurate. Walking through Dzama's latest show, Behind Every Curtain, at David Zwirner, leaves one with the sense that he has been seduced by Duchamp. Dzama had reflected in an interview with David Coggins for the Huffington Post, it's interesting to see Duchamp's patterns, he's actually an aggressive chess player. He's rig.. read more...

“French Window” in Tokyo

March 3, 2011 The Mori Art Museum, way up at the top of the gleaming Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Roppongi,Tokyo, is about to host a new exhibit featuring the work of Marcel Duchamp, along with that of rising International art stars who have won the prize tendered in his name. The Prix Marcel Duchamp is a 30,000 Euro award given out every year in conjunction with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which features a work of its recipient. Generally, but not always, Francophone young artists.. read more...

See M.D. Move

March 2, 2011 Legend has it that Duchamp denounced and abandoned painting in 1923, and chose to spend his time playing chess instead.   In the 02-27-11 post on marcelduchamp.net, we saw how Scott Kildall, computer programmer and chess enthusiast, created a user friendly game that allows players to compete against Duchamp, or rather a computer algorithm of Duchamp’s strategies and errors.  Chessgames.com, an online community and chess database, recently catalogued mo.. read more...