Duchampian News & Views
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“After Images” at the Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
May 3, 2009 The current show "After Images", which runs until June 13 at the Paula Cooper Galley in New York, "illustrates how artists from Degas, Delacroix and Cézanne through Jasper Johns, Sophie Calle, Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine have based their work on paintings, drawings or sculptures from history". The show will include loans from private collections and foundations as well as work by contempory artists that the gallery represents. Conte.. read more... -
Marcel Duchamp: Reinventing the Wheel
May 3, 2009 "The object in Tate Modern is white and shiny, cast in porcelain, its slender upper part curving outward as it descends to a receiving bowl - into which I urinate. It's just a brief walk from here in the fifth-floor men's loo to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, an object sealed in a plastic display case on a plinth that is nevertheless almost identical to the receptacle into which I've just pissed.... Duchamp warned against an attitude of 'aesthetic delectation' that would tra.. read more... -
Partnership Between MoMA and High Museum of Art
April 24, 2009 This summer, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta will launch a partnership with New York's Museum of Modern Art with an exhibition of Cluade Monet's Water Lilly paintings. The three-year partnership will produce several short rotating exhibits as well as longer large exhibits. Planned exhbits include a 2011 show featuring works by 12 modern art pioneers, including Marcel Duchamp. The partnership which is modeled on the High Museum's previous collaboration with.. read more... -
Fountain
April 24, 2009 "Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is a uniquely confounding piece. On the one hand, placed in the context of a gallery, Fountain is validated as a work of art; still the piece does not conform to canonical expectations of how a sculpture should look. The work is ostensibly a porcelain urinal – albeit nonfunctioning – turned ninety degrees on its side. The lone conventionally artistic thing the viewer can discern is the artist’s ‘signature.’ I.. read more... -
“Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master” at the St. Louis University Museum
April 24, 2009 Throughout his life, Marcel Duchamp was an enthusiastic and skilled chess player, even declaring at one point that he had given up art in order to play chess. In 1924, he was declared Chess Master by the French Chess Federation. However, instead of giving up art for chess, he used chess to inform and inspire his art. The exhibit "Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master", which opens at the St. Louis University Museum on May 6, is the first exhibit to fo.. read more... -
Jennifer Shahade Recreates Famous Photo of Marcel Duchamp
April 24, 2009 Jennifer Shahade, two-time winner of the World Chess Championship and contibuter to the book "Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess", recently recreated a famous 1963 photograph of Duchamp. The original photograph, which was taken by Julian Wasser at the Pasadena Art Museum, showed Duchamp playing chess against a naked woman. Shahade's version is a video instead of a photo and shows her playing against a naked man. The game they play is based on a ga.. read more... -
Moeller Fine Art Berlin Opening Exhibition
April 24, 2009Longtime New York art dealer Achim Moeller is opening a new gallery, called Moeller Fine Art Berlin. The gallery’s opening exhbition, "Ouverture" opens on April 28 and includes work by many contermpory artists as well as masterpieces by such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee, and Wasilly Kandinsky. The exhibtion will be shown in Palais Eger, a Beller Epoque palace in Berlin.
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Male Version of Etant Donnes
April 17, 2009The artist Paul Kos created a male version of Marcel Duchamp’s Etant donnés entitled Zizi Va ! for the di Rosa Art Preserve in Napa, California.
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Erwin Blumenfeld: I Was Nothing But a Berliner,
April 17, 2009
Dada Montages 1916-1933In her new book “Erwin Blumenfeld: I Was Nothing But a Berliner, Dada Montages 1916-1933", Helen Adkins collects and annotates the little-seen dada colleges of Erwin Blumenfeld. Although Blumenfeld was a famous and much sought-after fashion photographer, his colleges were mostly "given away as gifts and sent as letters" and are only being rediscovered now.
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