For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn’t There

July 20, 2009 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents "For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn't There" an international group exhibition to open Sept. 11, 2009. For the blind man … celebrates the speculative nature of knowledge and proposes that curiosity matters more than understanding. While the artists featured in the exhibition all share our common urge to understand the world, they are also eager to keep art separate from explanation. As speculati.. read more...

Homage to Tinguely’s Homage a Marcel Duchamp

July 15, 2009 Homage to Tinguely's Homage a Marcel Duchamp, by Arthur Ganson "A double homage to Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely. The machine mimics the formal design of Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. In the place of the Bride is an image of Tinguely's own homage to Duchamp, and the mechanical elements of my machine loosely recall the Bachelors in Duchamp's original work. The machine was created while meditating on the works of these two masters." - Gans.. read more...

Christie’s Upcoming Prints and Multiples Sale: July 22, 2009

July 15, 2009 Christie's upcoming Prints and Multiples summer sale will present "a cross section of movements and styles," showcasing prints and multiples by artists including: Marcel Duchamp, Paul Gauguin, Joan Miró, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, Claes Oldenberg, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Whiteread. The sale will include 12 offset lithographs by Marcel Duchamp. These Rotoreliefs, are prin.. read more...

Exhibition of Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell Announced at Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego

July 15, 2009 Museums in Miniature: Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell will open September 26, 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. The exhibition 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, .. read more...

The Erotic Object: Upcoming Lectures at MOMA

July 13, 2009 Coinciding with the prementioned exhibit The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection, MOMA has organized four more lectures and gallery talks over the next month. Exhibition includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacommetti, Joan Miro, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dali, Meret Oppenheim, Joseph Cornell, and Louise Bourgeois. Saturday, July 18, 2009, 1:30 p.m. With Agnes Berecz Sunday, July 19, 2009, 1:30 p.m.With Diana Bush Monday, July 2.. read more...

Book Review: Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess

July 9, 2009 Readymade Press, has recently released Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess to coincide with the concurrent exhibition at Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master. This is the first major study in the English language dedicated to further examining Duchamp's life and art as effected by his devout interest in chess. It was rumored in the early 1920s that Duchamp had willingly decided to quit making art and devote his life to playing chess. While Duchamp .. read more...

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts: Western Art Collection

July 7, 2009 The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts is one of the most important museums of Asian modern arts. The museum was inaugurated in 1978 in Tehran and after 30 years, this museum’s treasures are being publicly exhibited for the second time. Four years ago, in the period of Khatami's presidency in Iran and in the last days of the so called "reforms period", the treasures were exhibited on the walls of 9 galleries for the first time. The treasures of Tehran Museum o.. read more...

The Waintrob Collection: Artists and Their Art

July 6, 2009 The Waintrob Collection, currently on view at Snug Harbor Cultural Center is an eclectic assemblage of artworks from a variety of twentieth century American and European artists. Brothers Sidney and Abraham Waintrob had longstanding social roots in the New York artworld, as a spare time hobby, they began photographing their artist friends, who began exchanging pieces of their art for the photographic portraits. This exhibition chronicles these bartered artworks to include.. read more...

Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes August 15, 2009 – November 29, 2009

July 3, 2009 Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic assemblage Etant donnes: 1. La chute d'eau, 2. Le gaz d'eclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) has been described by the artist Jasper Johns as "the strangest work of art in any museum." Permanently installed at the Museum since 1969, this three-dimensional environmental tableau offers an unforgettable and untranslatable experience to those who peer through the two small holes in the solid wooden door. Celebrating the.. read more...