“Surreal Things” at the Art Gallery of Ontario

May 8, 2009 Opening this past Saturday May 9: The Art Gallery of Ontario presents Surreal Things, an unparalleled theme first to exhibit the influence of Surrealism on 20th century design. The exhibition showcases the work of Surrealist artists and designers headlining: Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, and Elsa Schiaparelli. The exhibition focuses on Surrealism's contrib.. read more...

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture; New Book Release from MIT Press

May 6, 2009 In this past week MIT Press released Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture; the catalog's release conscides with the current exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, located at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. In addition to chronicling Duchamp's aliased self-portraiture, the exhibition and accompanying catalog also showcase portraits of Duchamp by both his peers and later contemporary artists including: Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis P.. read more...

Sculpture Displays Take Shape At Tate

May 3, 2009 As part of DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture,"artist Michael Craig-Martin will select and arrange works from the Tate Collection to focus on the complex ways that sculpture informs our understanding and experience of the physical world"  In the exhibit, which started May 1, Craig-Martin aims to "create a new context for the works in the collection" by taking over three of he Tate's gallerys and painting each one "a different vivid colour, centr.. read more...

Mike Figgis colloborates with
Tate for Film Project

May 3, 2009 Academy Award nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis is collobrating with the the Tate Liverpool and Tate Media to make a series of short films featuring conversations with people from Liverpool about the works of art in the Tate Collection.  Four works of art from the Tate Collection, including Marcel Duchamp's Fountain will be shown in public places around Liverpool and " members of the public will be invited to talk about the works in these new contexts." &nbs.. read more...

“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...