Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century to Now

June 9, 2009

The UK Times cast a public poll of 1.4 million voters to find out who were the top 200 artists since 1900.
Its no surprise we find Marcel Duchamp within the top five highest rank, coming in at 5th place with 20,647 votes. According to the public he champions Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol by over 3,000 votes.

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Cinematic Works from the Menil Archives

June 7, 2009 The film archives at The Menil Collection are replete with art movies of every stripe, as today's 90-minute al fresco sampler of goodies, Menil Movies: Cinematic Works from the Menil Archives, demonstrates. There are interviews with Buckminster Fuller and Marcel Duchamp, rare interviews with the great Man Ray, and Robert Wilson’s weirdly surreal, and short, video sketchbooks. There’s also footage of rifle-wielding feminist sculptor Niki De Saint Phalle creating one of her.. read more...

Witches Cradle (1943); Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren

June 4, 2009 An unfinished collaboration between filmmaker Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp. (1943) Watch Part I and Part II .. read more...

Duchamp, Miro, Marc, Monet and Picasso Highlight Christie’s Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art

June 3, 2009 The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place at Christie's on 23 June and will offer 46 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Joan Miro, Camille Pissarro and Marcel Duchamp. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £40 million and will be on public view at Christie’s in London from 18 to 23 June 2009. Deux nus: un fort et un vite, 1912, by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) Deux nus: .. read more...

Can artists create art by doing nothing?

June 2, 2009 More than 20 artists will pay homage to Felicien Marboeuf in an eclectic exhibition opening in Paris next week. Although he's hardly a household name, Marboeuf (1852-1924) inspired both Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. Having been the model for Frederic Moreau, he resolved to become an author lest he should remain a character all his life. But he went on to write virtually nothing: his correspondence with Proust is all that was ever published - and posthumously at that. Ma.. read more...

Reflections, Refractions at the National Portrait Gallery

May 29, 2009 Coinciding with the current exhibition Inventing Marcel Duchamp the National Portrait Gallery is also hosting Reflections, Refractions, "an ideal companion piece to the Duchamp-inspired portraiture show featuring works of self-examination by a coterie of influential creators, from Childe Hassam to Edward Hopper to Andy Warhol." Intentionally the work is in the same vein as the Duchamp exhibit, exploring manipulated portraiture and the artists' break away from representation.. read more...

100 SEXES D’ARTISTES

May 27, 2009 Starting in 1973 artist Jacques Charlier, began his series of caricaturing "artists' genitalia." For the next three decades he created 100 imaginary portraits of the "procreative organs" of artists he considers to have been major figures in 20th century contemporary art since, and including, Marcel Duchamp. These caricatures are based on "conceptual analysis and personal interpretations of the artistic attributes of major representatives of modern and contemporary art, thus .. read more...

Press Release: Futurism at Tate Modern

May 26, 2009 This exhibition will be the first large-scale showing of Futurism in Britain in thirty years. The movement set out to modernise Italian art and social attitudes and its influence spread across Europe and beyond, revolutionising the response to the dynamism of modern life. Its master of ceremonies was the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and this exhibition celebrates the centenary of his publication of The Founding and First Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. A core group of art.. read more...

Interview with Artist Rafael Rozendaal

May 26, 2009 "Art history is a nice story. Some cave man starts to look at bulls and paints them on his wall. Then the next caveman looks at his painting and he is jealous, so he makes a better one. And the story continues. If the 2nd caveman would look at bulls, he wouldnt get any where. The smartest guy knows to look at the painting of his competitor and to upgrade it. It is good to learn from recorded history, otherwise mankind would still be drawing bulls on cavewalls. So i make .. read more...