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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
(TrendHunter.com) These 'Bride Stripped Bare' cuffs by Etsy artisan SoCharmed are named for the Marcel Duchamp painting "The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even," and feature lace, the cuffs from an oxford shirt,…
In the print edition of the October issue of The Monthly Sebastian Smee reviews Edmund Capon's I Blame Duchamp: My life's Adventures in Art In one of the chapters Capon lines up Marcel Duchamp for the current state of contemporary art, especially conceptual art. Duchamp and his Fountain--- a ready-made...
Spoof-prone or, simpler, fictitious avant-garde strategies as well as their vulnerable practitioners and critics are celebrated in a newly released film production, (Untitled) , written by Jonathan Parker and Catherine di Napoli, directed by Parker. In just two columns of text NY Times critic Stephen Holden deploys a massive array of double-edged vocabulary that unsettles to the gut. (Untitled) 's...
Derek Eller Gallery 615 West 27th Street, 212-206-6411 Chelsea October 30 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Friday, October 30, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of drawings by Dan Fischer. Taking its title, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, from the Futurist masterpiece by Boccioni, this exhibition features drawings of 20th-century artists and their signature...
Peggy Guggenheim came from a family of rich Jewish business people who had made fortunes as immigrants in the nineteenth century from trade, mining, and eventually banking. Her father was a womaniser who died aboard the Titanic in 1913 - putting on his dinner clothes to go down in style. When she was nineteen she inherited five million dollars, though as Mary Dearborn points out in this fairly even-handed...
Marcel Duchamp’’s Erratum ”framed” by both sides of a ”found” record by Bob and Roberta Smith. The single “Knock 3 times on the ceiling if you want me” is appropriated by Bob and Roberta Smith by sticking a new label on the record and calling it a signed limited edition entitled “Lame” and the B [...]
"Marcel Duchamp: 'Étant donnés'" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Through Nov. 29, 2009. Peep Show Marcel Duchamp's “Étant donnés." By Morgan Meis There's a place in France where the naked ladies dance. There's a hole in the wall where the men can see it all. Except in this case, the lady isn't dancing. She's lying naked in a park. Her legs are splayed...
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