Marcel Duchamp Lived Here That Long???

September 25, 2008 "I looked up the address when I got home and freaking Marcel Duchamp lived there from 1942 until he died in 1968. How can that be? We had him that long, and so close (to where I live I mean)?? I had no idea. According to Wikipedia he died in France though, but did live in a Greenwich Village studio for many years. So maybe he didn't die here, but he lived here a long time and produced his last work of art here, years after everyone thought he had stopped making art.".. read more...

Duchamp’s 3 Stoppages Étalon

September 24, 2008 "Many of the stories he tells just don't line up," Shearer says. Consider Three Standard Stoppages, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, a key early work. Toward the end of 1913, Duchamp said, in his Paris studio, he cut three lengths of thread, each just under one meter long, dropped them from a height of one meter, and affixed the results on three separate canvases---a new standard of measure, incorporating chance and randomness, for the new art of this .. read more...

Agreement between Proa and MAM-SP for Duchamp in Latin America

September 23, 2008 MAM – MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DE SÃO PAULO: 15 July - 21 September, 2008 FUNDACION PROA: November 19, 2008 - February, 2009 "Two years after an intensive investigation and production, Fundación Proa today shares with the MAM-SP the success obtained from the critics and public for the exhibition Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work "of art", inaugurated in São Paulo last July 15, constituting the artist's largest individual s.. read more...

The art factory and the death of the connoisseur

September 22, 2008

“In Duchamp’s day the ‘art world’ was tiny and the initiates were
ready for a breakthrough­for new ideas and new media, for ‘dada’­and
the big money wasn’t there. Once we accept that the artist’s hand is
no longer necessary, only his idea, it’s a short leap to market the
concept that beauty is not only no longer essential, it can even be
turned into a dirty, elitist’ word.”

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Duchamp’s mystery

September 19, 2008

” He is famous. No doubt about it. He led the artists of his time to one of the greatest revolutions of all. He changed the whole idea of art, of what it is. And yet, was he actually laughing at his private joke? Laughing at those who followed him, believing they were following a new belief. Laughing that he had us all fooled, us who took his word. If it is true that it was all a lie, Would it make a difference? “

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le duchamp (2008) by Rafael Rozendaal

September 18, 2008

"Brand new work by artist Rafael Rozendaal. Be sure to also check out Rozendaal’s JELLOTIME.COM, which was a Rhizome Commission in 2008."

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View A Nous La Liberte

September 16, 2008

“A Nous La Liberte – Criterion Collection was an incredible movie! Both Jean Brlin and Inge Frss were amazing! The great cast includes Jean Brlin, Inge Frss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray…One of the all-time great comedy classics, Ren Clair’s Nous la Libert is a skillful satire of the industrial revolution and the blind quest for wealth. Deftly integrating his signature musical-comedy technique with pointed social criticism.”

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Duchamp’s urinal and Tracey Emin’s Bed

September 16, 2008 JJ Xi & Cai Yuan . Two Artists jump on Tracy Emin's Bed. Performance at Tate Britain, London, 1999 Image source "WHEN CHINESE performance artists Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi tried to urinate in a replica of Marcel Duchamp's famous latrine in the Tate Modern in 2000, their behaviour showed a distinct pattern. A year earlier, the duo had jumped up and down on the work of the unvictorious Turner Prize nominee, Tracey Emin. They called their performance Two Naked Men Jump Int.. read more...

Why more Dadaism?

September 12, 2008

“For nearly fifty years, since Pop Art began and dethroned the “high art” seriousness of Abstract Expressionism as a manifestation of elitism, the inheritance of Dadaism has ruled the art world. This philosophy, promulgated first 100 years ago by Marcel Duchamp and his colleagues, declares that art in the prior sense of a directed, purposeful activity separate from and “above” everyday reality, is an outmoded concept.”

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