Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism

August 11, 2009 Manchester Art Gallery's major new exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see outstanding works by women artists including Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller from public and private collections around the globe. Women played a huge, but at the time not fully recognised, part in the Surrealist movement. Only recently has an appreciation grown of how crucial women’s contributions were in this movement. Artists such as Meret Oppenheim, Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington.. read more...

MOMA Photography Collection Grows

August 10, 2009

The Museum of Modern Art’s Photography Department announced it has recently acquired 39 works by photographer Richard Avedon, in addition to some 60 photographs from the collection of Suzanne Winsberg.
Avedon’s photographs include portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Malcom X. These were part purchase and part gift from the Avedon Foundation, established in 2004.

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Chance Aesthetics at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010

August 5, 2009 Organized by Meredith Malone, assistant curator for the Kemper Art Museum, Chance Aesthetics will feature more than 60 artworks by more than 40 avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States, including Jean Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Tanguy, among many others. At the exhibition's heart is a .. read more...

Philadelphia Museum Celebrates Etant Donnes Anniversary

August 4, 2009 The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to examine the genesis, construction, and reception of Etant donnes: 1 la chute d'eau, 2 le gaz deeclairage (Given: 1 The Waterfall, 2 The Illuminating Gas), Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic final masterwork. Duchamp (1887-1968) constructed Etant donnes in complete secrecy over a period of twenty years, from 1946 to 1966, during which he publicly claimed to have gone “underground” and given up art for chess. Th.. read more...

Talk Show

August 3, 2009 On Thursday, August 6th, EAI presents Talk Show, the second of two outdoor evening screenings on the rooftop of the X Initiative. Talk Show presents works by artists who use video to bring the interview into their art. Included in the program are Tony Oursler's interview with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon; a 1982 video "magazine edition" by MICA-TV (Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen) and Richard Prince; Chris Burden's Big Wrench, a video confessional in which he recounts .. read more...

BE THE ARTIST FAMILY PROGRAM

July 31, 2009

BE THE ARTIST FAMILY PROGRAM 

Art classes teaching young people about the art of Marcel Duchamp. A class for kids ages 10-14 runs from noon to 2 p.m., another for children ages 5-10 lasts from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. 202-633-1000 or http://www.npg.si.edu. Free. Saturday 12 to 5:30.

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Dreams that Money Can Buy

July 29, 2009 Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Leger. The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. Desire: Max Ernst; The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart: Fernand Leg.. read more...

Happy Birthday Marcel Duchamp!!

July 29, 2009

Marcel Duchamp was born June 28, 1887. He was born in Blainville-Crevon Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie region of France. He died on October 2, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and is buried in the Rouen Cemetery, in Rouen, France. His grave bears the epitaph, “D’ailleurs, c’est toujours les autres qui meurent;” or “Besides, it’s always other people who die.”

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Paul & Nusch Eluard and Surrealism Exhibition

July 27, 2009 The National Galleries of Scotland currently presents an exhibition at their Dean Gallery exploring and chronicling the affair between Paul Eluard and his wife Nusch. The works are gathered from the Roland Penrose collection exhibited in a small, but overpacked front room gallery. The works in the collection explore Nusch's influence as muse on Eluard's work. The exhibition also includes collaborations with other artists in and outside of the Parisian Surrealist circle includ.. read more...