Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons: An Exercise in Circular Reasoning

October 27, 2009

Author, curator, gallerist and historian Francis M. Naumann will host a lecture "Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons: An Exercise in Circular Reasoning" Wednesday, Nov. 4. The lecture will be held at UGA Chapel, North Campus in Athens, Georgia at 6:30 pm.

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“The Art of Chess” at Francis Naumann Fine Art Reviewed in New York Times

October 23, 2009 In the 1920s the buzz was that Marcel Duchamp was taking early retirement from art to devote himself to chess. Duchamp neither confirmed nor denied the story, but by then he had stopped painting and had dropped out of sight of the art world, sailing to Buenos Aires, where he spent a year or so plotting games, designing his own chess set and generally living the life of what he called a chess maniac. Was he really finished with making art? No. Was he really devoting a huge ch.. read more...

Playing with Chance: Duchamp, Chess and Roulette

October 20, 2009 Marcel Duchamp was among the most influential artists of the 20th century. He was also a dedicated chess player who saw strong correlations between his art and the game, famously remarking to the New York State Chess Association that, "I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." At 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Sain.. read more...

Miro and Surrealism

October 19, 2009 The Joan Miro Museum in Barcelona presents "Miro and Surrealism," an exhibition dedicated to Miro's influence on and by the Surrealism movement. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, photographs, etchings, collage, sculpture and other ephemera related to Miro's involvement with the Surrealists. The exhibition also includes paintings by other surrealists such as Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee, Francis Picabia, Andre Masson, Victor Brauner, Roberto Matta .. read more...

Subodh Gupta the “Sub-continental Marcel Duchamp”

October 15, 2009 Currently on view at London's Hauser & Wirth Gallery is the solo exhibition "Common Man" by Subodh Gupta. Gupta has been dubbed the "Sub-continental Marcel Duchamp" for his experimentation with appropriation and incorporation of everyday ubiquitous objects into his artwork. Among the works in the exhibition, Gupta has specifically made a three-dimensional reworking in bronze of Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q." While Gupta is most known for incorporat.. read more...

Philadelphia Museum of Art to Present Two Nauman Installations

October 14, 2009 From November 21 through April 4, 2010 the Philadelphia Museum of Art will host two installations by Bruce Nauman, Days and Giorno (2009). The installations were orignally conceived for the 53rd Venice Biennale. The installations consist of seven flat paneled speakers that span from floor to ceiling, emanating from each are the days of the week in both English and Italian. The layout of the space and abundance of speakers distorts and rearranges the sound, described by artdai.. read more...

Recent submission to Toutfait.com!

October 13, 2009 An exciting second addition has been added to Toutfait.com. Kurt Godwin's article "Spring, 1911 Where It All Begins" chronicles the production and sources of imagery of Duchamp's painting Young Man and Girl in Spring. "Spring" was painted in 1911, and shortly after a larger second edition was painted and exhibited in the Salon d' Automne in 1911. No photograph of the second edition exists, and it was repositioned horizontally, and used as the backdrop for .. read more...

Alexander Calder’s big-top talent

October 13, 2009 The current Alexander Calder exhibition at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario is about as light-hearted an affair as you can imagine. Spend a few moments in the projection area where Jean Painlevé's 1953 film of the Calder Circus is on view – a loving document of Calder's miniature, handmade replica of a circus complete with a sword-swallower, a tamed lion, a dancing elephant and trapeze artists made from wire, cloth, rubber hoses, string, bits of wood and other fo.. read more...

Pop-Up Gallery “Paradise Row” to Open in London

October 7, 2009 Paradise Row and Prakke Contemporary presents a new pop-up gallery space in London; opening October 9 with its most recent exhibition "Play," a group show and series of performances themed on the subject of play. The curator brings together more historically established artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Sol Lewitt with a new generation of breakthrough artists. The program consists of not only a group exhibition, but a series of performances, talks and lectures. The.. read more...