Controversial Exhibition Features Work By Marcel Duchamp

February 9, 2009 Starting September 22, the Hamburger Banhof Museum in Berlin will present the collection of Friedrich Christian Flick, which includes work by Marcel Duchamp.  The exhibition has been critisized for its connection to Flick's grandfather "who made his fortune from the war arms industry during the Nazi regime using Jewish slave labourers".  Because of this, many within the Jewish community have protested against the exhibit.  However, the curator ".. read more...

The Marcel Duchamp I Married

February 6, 2009 In an excerpt from her memoir A Marriage in Check: The Heart of the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor, Even, Duchamp's wife Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor tells about their relationship.  Although they initially  had a happy marriage, Sarazin-Levassor soon found herself excluded from Duchamp's life.  Duchamp essentially abandoned his wife, and altough she atttempted to put up a facade of a happy marriage, the two eventually divorced a year after marrying.&nbs.. read more...

Jerry Saltz’s Idol Thoughts

February 6, 2009 In his article Idol Thoughts, Jerry Saltz considers the commonly held view that Duchamp is"an 'anti-artist' and an 'iconoclast.'".  Saltz believes this view is "entirely false" and in fact Duchamp "wasn't against art at all; he was against the hypocritical aura surrounding it".  Instead of seeking to destroy art, Duchamp's work "is an incarnation of the invisible essence of art" that combines image and idea in a way that had n.. read more...

Man Ray: Unconcerned but not Indifferent at the Hague Museum of Photography

February 6, 2009 The Hague Museum of Photography exhibit Man Ray: Unconcerned but not Indifferent, which started on  January 24 and continues until April 19 2009, "is the first exhibition to reveal Man Ray's complete creative process".  It features more than 300 items, including photography, readymades, and paintings and "examines the four separate creative phases in Man Ray’s life...each [of which] is closely connected with the place where he was living (New Yo.. read more...

Marcel Duchamp:Etant donnes at the Philidelphia Museum of Art

February 6, 2009 The Philidelphia Museum of Art will present the exhibit Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés.  The exhibit includes the work Étant donnés, which has been described by Jasper Johns as “the strangest work of art in any museum”, plus "close to eighty works of art related to its installment, including all the known studies, photographs, erotic objects, and other materials."  The  exhibit was created to celebrate the fortiet.. read more...

The Heir & the Cowboy:
Social Predisposition, Mediation & Artistic Profession in Marcel Duchamp & Jackson Pollock

February 6, 2009 "Marcel Duchamp enjoyed the security and the support derived from his family’s station and from having the social and cultural capital he accumulated throughout his personal evolution. As a result of this inheritance, the artist was able to postpone remarkably the moment of his consecration. Jackson Pollock hailed from a family of farmers and had to go to great lengths to make a place for himself in the avant-garde art of the mid 20th century. The social space Duch.. read more...

Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters in the Archives of American Art
at the Smithsonian

February 6, 2009

The Smithsonian Museum’s Archives of American Art is currently presenting an exhibit of artist’s illustrated letters selected by Archives of American Art Curator of Manuscripts Liza Kirwin.  The exhibit encompesses letters from the early 1900s through the 1980s and includes letters written by Marcel Duchamp.

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R. Mutt sticker

February 5, 2009 "If you want to turn your toilet into a work of art, how about adorning it with this R. Mutt sticker from Thwart Design? Replicating the 'R. Mutt 1917' signature that Marcel Duchamp put on the original Fountain, does adding the sticker to your loo make it a work of art? It's an interesting thought and continues the question that Duchamp raised with the original piece. Buy your sticker for 15 euros at Atypyk and join in by making your own ready-made sculpture.".. read more...

“Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work of art” extended for one more week

February 1, 2009

The popular exhibition "Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work of art" in La Boca, Buenos Aires will continue for an extra week.  The exhibition, which opened on November 22, 2008, was a huge sucess and has recieved 30,000 visitors.  It features 123 works by Duchamp, including objects, works on paper, and photographs, and will close Febuary 8, 2009.

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