| Last Tour for Cunningham Dancers |
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posted:
03-18-10
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Merce Cunningham, "An Occasion Piece" (1999)
Design "after Marcel Duchamp" |
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| When Merce Cunningham, sometime collaborator with Marcel Duchamp, died last year, his will instructed that his eponymous dance company embark on one last tour and then, possibly, dissolve. That tour is going on now and will conclude on December 31 2011 -- at New York's Park Avenue Armory. After that point, some of his works will be archived; the fate of the rest is as yet unknown. While two explicitly Duchampian dances (Walkaround Time and An Occasion Piece) may not figure on the program, what remains is evidently in the spirit of the regular stoppages and bachelor machines. Schedule at merce.org. ...more |
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| Three-Minute Wonder: The 'Fountain' Returns |
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posted:
03-17-10
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| Film director Mike Figgis recently had the chance to install a copy of the notorious Fountain in a Liverpool restroom and recorded reactions from members of the public. The results were suggestive of generations of received critical response and, surprisingly, revealed often ignored aspects of the work's gendered and functional nature. The video, produced on behalf of the Tate Modern Liverpool, is now available. ...more |
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| MONALISA/ L.H.O.O.Q. |
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posted:
03-16-10
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| A recent installation of Ida Applebroog's drawings everted the voyeuristic structure of Etant donnes by putting the naked ladies on the outside of the box; visitors were invited to peer inside the doorless "little sanctuary" -- a room of one's own -- at more of the art, which depicts Applebroog's own female anatomy in various degrees of abstraction. ...more |
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| A Glimpse into Montreal's New Dzama Show |
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posted:
03-15-10
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Even the Ghost of the Past (detail)
Marcel Dzama |
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| A significant retrospective look at the diorama-driven career of Marcel Dzama offers some of the thrills of the wax museum along with more enduring grist for thought. Dzama's one-time signature installation Even the Ghost of the Past updates Etant Donnes in ways that both expand and circle back on the Duchampian original. While Duchamp's work still appears eternally pregnant, the addition of new figures seems to both personalize the scene and fix it more clearly at a specific moment in time -- less "origin of the world," more the content of a certain dream. Still, provocative and poignant.
(At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal through April 25.) ...more |
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| Duchamp Still has the Power to Shock |
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By Scott Martin
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posted:
03-12-10
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Dee Schaad,
Marcel Duchamp & Bragna Pearlmutter [sic] as Adam & Eve
(after Man Ray) |
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| Nearly nine decades after Marcel Duchamp and Bronia Perlmutter posed nude as Adam and Eve, the image is still causing trouble. Readers of the Lubbock, TX Avalanche-Journal are debating whether an earthenware interpretation of Man Ray's original photograph is "offensive." Interestingly, the controversy does not revolve around the potentially radical suggestion that the quintessentially modern Duchamp could impersonate the fundamentally archaic progenitor of humanity -- a tempting proposition for would-be heretics -- but that he wasn't pretty enough. The offended reader argues that Adam must have a "perfect physique" to reflect the image of God; the sculpture's defender counters that in fact Adam is "whimsical and well-modeled." Nine decades and more on, the retinal clearly retains its primacy in the world of art. ...more |
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