| Design: From Found to Foundry |
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posted:
03-11-10
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| A new London exhibition of Ron Arad's readymade-inspired designs segments his work into the "scavenged" or found, the "rolled" or fabricated, and "tinkered" objects in between. This continuum of approaches to raw materials demonstrates his wit and, as the title of the show underlines, the artist's fundamental restlessness. (At the Barbican through May 16.) ...more |
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| Duchamp and Mail Art: SMS |
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03-10-10
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| In the 1960s, artists affiliated with the Fluxus movement bypassed the gallery system by mailing each other portfolios as boxed "exhibitions." Collector William Copley set up SMS, one of the more famous of these exchanges, which brought together an assortment of surrealists and younger artists: Oppenheim, Ono, Cage ... Duchamp, who designed the covers and table of contents of one of the six "issues" in an echo of the "rotoreliefs" he'd created four decades previously. An entire set of SMS is now on display at the California State University-Long Beach Art Museum. (Through April 18. The CSULB Art Museum has details.) ...more |
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| The 'Nude' in a Cubist Context |
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03-09-10
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| The Philadelphia Museum of Art's current Picasso show reimagines a 1912-era Parisian cubist salon to include allied works like Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. While the gesture may necessitate some license (the painting was neither exhibited with the cubists nor deeply "cubist" in its concerns), it is still interesting to see cubism as a continuum of practice and a community of thought intimately connected to Picasso, but not yet entirely dependent on him. That said, Duchamp did paint several explicitly "cubist" canvasses -- notably the Portrait of Chess Players and Transition of a Virgin into a Bride -- and it's a shame they're not here in addition or instead. ...more |
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| Richard Hamilton's 'Modern Moral Matters' |
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03-08-10
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| "As Duchamp's chief British cheerleader, Richard Hamilton influenced not one, not two, but three generations of creatives. Pop art we have noted already. The best British art of the 1970s, from Richard Long to Gilbert & George, was infected, too, by Duchampian logic. As for Brit Art, with its passion for jokes and its obsession with the conceptual denouement, the line of descent that passes from Duchamp to it, via Hamilton, runs straight as a Roman road." -- Waldemar Januszczak A rare Hamilton show at London's Serpentine Gallery brings together new work with some of his iconic reflections on pop and history. (Through April 25) ...more |
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| Red Grooms: Old Masters & Modern Muses |
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posted:
03-05-10
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| American artist Red Grooms, best known for his large-format and "jokey" multimedia installations of crowds, is receiving a retrospective show at Bryn Mawr College's Canaday Library. The exhibit focuses on Grooms' portraits of his fellow artists: Matisse, Picasso, Dali, Goya, Rembrandt, Titian ... Duchamp. Other works on display are of friends and collaborators, the "muses" who inhabit the living artist's life and days. And a selection of self-portraits blur the mirrored line between muse and master. (In Bryn Mawr, PA through June 5. brynmawr.edu has details.)
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