New Article on Toutfait.com!

October 6, 2009 We're pleased to announce Toutfait.com has published our most recent submission by Francis M. Naumann. Click here for article. This text was first published as the entry for Duchamp's "Belle Haleine: Eau de violette" in the sales catalog for the Christie's auction of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge's Collection in Paris, February 23, 2009. This essay not only itemizes and details the work's history but deeply explores the psyche of Duchamp's alter ego Rrose Sel.. read more...

Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists’ Response

October 2, 2009 "Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists' Response," draws its inspiration from the momentous  historic West Coast Roundtable on modern Art discussion held at the old San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1949, which featured Duchamp as the main speaker joined by prominent invited guests. The invitees included Robert Goldwater, editor of the Magazine of Art and associate professor of art at Queens College, Alfred Frankenstein, music and art editor of the San Fra.. read more...

Los Angeles – Free Museum Admission Weekend

September 30, 2009 This weekend 24 museums in Los Angeles and its surrounding areas will offer free admission this Saturday and Sunday, October 3rd and 4th. Some institutions will participate both days, otherwise schedule listed below: Armory Center for the Arts - Both Days The Autry National Center - Sunday, October 4th ONLY Bowers .. read more...

Angels of Anarchy

September 29, 2009 Opening this weekend Manchester City Gallery of Art presents Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism. The exhibition will continue until January 10. "Angels of Anarchy is the first major exhibition in Europe to explore the crucial role that women artists played in the surrealist art movement.The exhibition features over 150 artworks, including paintings, photography, sculpture and surreal objects, created by three generations of artists from around the globe.The.. read more...

Armed Robbers Steal Magritte Painting

September 25, 2009 On Sept. 24, 2009 two armed robbers broke into the Rene Magritte Museum in Brussels, holding museum staff and visitors at gunpoint shortly after it opened at 10am in broad daylight. They forced museum employees to lay on the grass in the courtyard and proceeded to climb the glass panel that was protecting the painting. They fled on foot, then left the scene in a car. The painting "Olympia" (1948) is estimated to be worth four million euros. It depicts Magritte's wif.. read more...

Understanding Duchamp

September 24, 2009

UnderstandingDuchamp.com is an interactive approach to making sense of Duchamp. The website offers a detailed timeline of Duchamp’s life and work, with explanatory text and animations. This is a great educational resource for any Duchamp lover!

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Philadelphia Museum Explores Arshile Gorky

September 23, 2009 One of the key themes of Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will be the artist’s profound engagement with the Surrealist movement throughout the 1940s. Gorky’s relationships with members of the Surrealist group in exile in the United States, including its leader, Andre Breton, as well as painters Yves Tanguy, Wifredo Lam, and Max Ernst, and his close friendship with the Chilean-born artist Roberto Matta all contributed to the development of his singular visual vocabul.. read more...

Museums in Minature: Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell

September 22, 2009 Museums in Miniature explores the use of collage, assemblage, and staged tableaux by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell as plays on the notion of an exhibition space. Evocative juxtapositions, absurdities, and rebuses abound in Cornell’s work, demonstrating the enduring influence of Duchamp’s practice, and of Surrealism more broadly, during the second half of the 20th century. Duchamp will be represented by MCASD’s The Green Box (1934) and by a version of his.. read more...

Surrealism at the Frist

September 18, 2009 Surrealism: seeing the ordinary as extraordinary was the theme of Dr. Therese Lichtenstein's photography and film exhibition, called 'Twilight Visions', which opened Thursday night at the Frist Center. The exhibition featured more than 120 photographs by French artists from the 1920's and 1930's, such as Man Ray, Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer and Brassai, and offered a unique insight to the social and political hardships during their culture's transition between world wars. .. read more...