Duchampian News & Views
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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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L’Art: Gas lighting
April 17, 2009"Opening this week it the Garrick Player’s production of The Gas Heart, a nonsensical play derived from the Dada art movement in the 1920’s…The Gas Heart was written by one of the key figures of the Dada movement, Tristan Tzara. The play, as described by the Tzara, is the greatest three-act hoax of the century"
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Theater Review:
April 17, 2009 "A play that tries to do almost too much — dealing with love, Lenin, Dada and the "death of art” in a little over two hours — gets enough of it right to make a vivid impression on spectators. 'The Dada Play,' a script by visiting Canadian author Mieko Ouchi, is on stage through Sunday at the University of Oklahoma’s Lab Theatre in Old Science Hall.".. read more...
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“Surrealism and Beyond” at
April 10, 2009 "Surrealism and Beyond", which runs until May 17 at the Cincinnati Museum of Art, showcases surrealist and dada art from the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Cincinatti is the only US venue for the exhibit, which " features a glorious mix of works by every major figure from the dada and surrealist movements: Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Hannah Hoch, Rene Magritte, Man Ray and Kurt Schwitters,.. read more...
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Duchamp: Artist as Celebrity
April 10, 2009 In a review of the show "Inventing Marcel Duchamp:The Dynamics of Portraiture" at the National Portrait Galley, Blake Gopnik argues that " for Duchamp, portraiture was all about demolishing our stale ideas about an artist - or a person - as a single, stable thing." Rather than use his self-portraits to present himself as he actually was and define his identity, Duchamp used them to invent several alternate identities, including R.Mutt and Rrose Selev.. read more... -
Marcel Duchamp and Portraiture
April 3, 2009 In her article New Smithsonian exhibt shows Marcel Duhcamp's influance on Warhol, Jasper Johns, Marsha Ducbrow defends the National Portrait Gallery's decision to show an exhibit about Marcel Duhamp, an artist not known for his portraits. She belives that while Duchamp did not actually make many portraits, he "revolutionized portraiture. And he greatly influenced artists including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, among other key 20th and 21st century artists whose work.. read more...