Duchampian News & Views
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“Too Close to Duchamp’s Bicycle”
November 7, 2011 What is Les Liens Invisibles? Apparently, it is an “imaginary” partnership between a pair of Italian artists, Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini, who focus on creating net art subversive media based art. They have been gaining notoriety an exhibition space in places like the Venice Biennale and the New School in New York, and their work is thought provoking to say the least. In one email interview, the duo discussed their mistrust of t.. read more... -
The Maharaja Come to San Francisco
November 5, 2011 When Man Ray photographed the Maharajah Yeshwant Rao Holkar II and his wife the Maharani Sanyogita Devi of Indore, he had to loosen them up by playing them jazz before he could capture their likenesses in the iconic photograph above and in numerous others. The photograph will be displayed as part of an exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco--“Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts”--among over 150 over pieces depicting the splendor .. read more... -
Lady Gaga’s Potty Art
November 3, 2011 Of course, the next person to create their own version of Marcel Duchamp's hundred year old Fountain (1917) for a publicity stunt is Lady Gaga. The infamous pop star, or self-titled "Fame Monster," she used Armitage Shanks, the title of her urinal sculpture, as an accessory at a photo shoot for Vogue Homme Japan with the iconic photographer Nick Knight. She signed in black scribble, "I'm not fucking Duchamp but I love pissing with you." Lady Gaga has since .. read more... -
Alert: Duchamp CD Posted on Rhapsody.com
September 20, 2011 It's all in the title. For those who would like to listen to Duchamp read The Creative Act or by interviewed by the recently deceased Richard Hamilton, Duchamp's 2007 CD, The Creative Act, is now available for streaming on Rhapsody.com. Of course, it's only free for a seven day trial, but we recommend you use those seven days those seven days up by listening to that one CD over and over again. You won't regret it. Click here for link: .. read more... -
Looking in the Large Glass
September 13, 2011 It's in London and it's called Large Glass. What could it be? Turns out, it' a freshly minted "gallop" shop. And a "gallop" shop turns out to be a gallery that also functions as a store, a gallery-shop that offers both a faster pace and objects for sale right beside the art that hangs on the intimate and familiarly museum-white walls. As of July 8th, Large Glass is displaying art, objects, and books by artists such as Alvar Aalto, Jeff McMillan,.. read more... -
Harold Bloom vs. the Avant-Garde
September 4, 2011 "now marjorie [perloff] was giving a talk based on the last chapter of her most recent book the poetics of indeterminacy the last chapter of which happens to deal with john cage and with me .. read more... -
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Daligramme Done by Lancel is at Galeries Lafayette
August 31, 2011 Did you know Salvador Dali created an eight character alphabet for his wife, Helene Dimitrievna Diakonava a.k.a. Gala, in the 1960s? He called the alphabet of love Daligramme, composing it out of redesigned and heavily stylized renditions of the letters G for Gradiva-Gala, D for Dali, and S for Salvador. In 1970 the French fashion company, Lancel, designed a handbag that featured Daligramme characters and a bicycle chain handle. ArtInfo reports that for three weeks.. read more... -
Automatism B: It Was a Failsafe Mechanism for Spandex
August 30, 2011 It was a failsafe mechanism for spandex. All along, if spandex went awry something would be there to rein it in, or so they thought. But it wasn't true, except now it was. People came from Red Hook, Brooklyn to Fish-hook, Brooklyn, to Red Fish Brooklyn, and over to Scared-ville Queens, just to see it. It was a tour-de-force that made no sense at all. Somewhere in the deep store of images that structure a composite of the urban landscape, spandex researchers and bike-spoke eng.. read more...