Oh Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
The best part of Oh Word TV , a section of this site devoted to curating web videos, is that it’s given me cause to explore off the beaten path of YouTube. I don’t remember where I first learned of Readymade777 but it was love at first site. As a video artist Readymade777 draws from a palette of american cinema, tv ads, pornography, and our own generation of DIY exhibitionists from the...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Said Marcel Duchamp, "Everyday objects, signed by an artist and presented within a museum, will transform into art." How do you spell "Jeff Koons?" The caption of the YouTube video above: "In Kruishoutem, Belgium, a new museum opened in 2009....
Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Pretty much everything that was considered cool, experimental or groundbreaking in art, film, theater and music in the 20th century can be traced back in one way or another to the Dada group, formed by Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Jean Arp and Marcel Janco, amongst other notables. It all started at the Cabaret Volatire in Zurich, but Dada found its true circulatory center in post-war Paris where the...
Jim West On Chess (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
On Tuesday, November 24th, WGM Jennifer Shahade and Francis M. Naumann will host a presentation and book signing of Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess , at the Marshall Chess Club. Jennifer Shahade is editor of Chess Life Online and winner of the Women’s U.S. Championships in 2002 and 2004. Francis M. Naumann is a renowned art scholar and curator, specializing in the Dada and Surrealist periods....
MoPo | Geek News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
From my close contact with artists and chess players, I have come to the conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists — Marcel Duchamp.Hit the link for more...
boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Following few pictures of Nicalos Moulin 's intsallation at the FIAC 2009. The work of Nicolas Moulin is all about architectural landscape, by using different architecture archetypes, he's creating a world that you can not define, date or locate. See more works of Nicolas Moulin on this former post. Nicolas Moulin is represented by the gallery chez Valentin (Paris).
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Yay! I love her. I know. I know. File under FACEBOOK STARFUCKER DEPT. I remember watching her on HBO years ago and thinking "Marcel Duchamp or Bruce Nauman ain't got shit on this woman." And I love the Eileen Myles poem in which she appears. Doing what? I think making an ink impression of her breasts so Eileen and a friend had cab fare to get home or something. That's something likely to...
I Hate Generic (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Many gowns aim for the appearance of grace, fluidity and movment. Rihanna's dress, at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards , seems to be going for a stop-motion effect. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 , by Marcel Duchamp. Anyone else see the resemblance? When Duchamp debuted this painting, critics loathed it and said it looked like "an explosion in a shingle factory." But, it turned out...
Official Blog of Park West Gallery (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON (November 5, 1876 – October 9, 1918) Nationality: French Field: Cubism Art Movement: Sculpture ARTiFact: The brother of artist Marcel Duchamp, he changed his surname to distinguish himself from his famous sibling. Artist Quote: “The sole purpose of the arts is neither description nor imitation, but the creation of unknown beings from elements which are always present...
A continuum of design (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Loris Gerard, 2009 From the time Marcel Duchamp created his " Boite en Valise" in 1936, boxes seem to be an endless subject of inspiration for modern artists. Not only are boxes everywhere from the supermarket to the office but their square lines and their volume can be filled by all the treasures of one's imagination. The door to art is wide open. Marcel Duchamp, Boite en Valise, 1936 Steve...
dandy gum (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
metamorphosis 1 Eadward Muybridge , Muybridge Animal Locomotion,1887 2 Romain Kremer S/S 2009 collection piece photographed by Rene Habermacher, Tokion Magazine 3 Marcel Duchamp photographed by Eliot Elisofon, 1952 . .
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Between 1920 and 1959, Croydon Aerodrome was the launch pad for various airborne adventures, including Amy Johnson's 1930 flight from from Croydon to Australia (the first woman to make this flight). Most of the site has been redeveloped, but there are still traces of it. Anarchist Ian Bone is evidently a fan and has a couple of good photos of a recent event there. In 1938 another sometime anarchist...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
apexart 291 Church Street, 212-431-5270 Tribeca / Downtown November 4 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Wednesday, November 4, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Curated by Sandra Skurvida Including work by: Julieta Aranda, caraballo-farman, Kabir Carter, Dexter Sinister, Eckhard Etzold, Andrea Geyer, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Pia Lindman, Anna Lundh, Nina Katchadourian, Carlos Motta, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere,...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A very marketable artist Heir to Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, born in 1955 in York (Pennsylvania), popularized a new genre, neopop. Champion of monumental kitsch, he was disparaged even more for turning art into an investment property. A few years before photographer David LaChapelle, the former Wall Street trader ...
The Eastside View (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
I'M THINKING ALOUD, or rather my fingers are, mulling over what on earth I'm going to say for half an hour this evening about my Duchamp opera. Marcel Duchamp worked on his Large Glass, La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même , for twelve or fourteen years, definitively abandoning the project in 1923. It's two things: 1) a painting on glass, say two meters high, painted...
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