Duchampian News & Views
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What’s Duchamp Doing in Starbucks Anyway?
September 30, 2011 There are many artists, designers, and writers among others that are inspired or incited by Duchamp's work. Richard Kegler is one of them. In 1994, Kegler created the Duchamp typeface by scanning in samples of Duchamp's writing from Large Glass and distributed them on floppy disks to interested customers in museum shops. The idea to create a "readymade" type came to Kegler in graduate school when he was working on an art installation and decided to proj.. read more... -
From Cage’s James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet
September 21, 2011 In a couple of months, we will be attending a production of James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphebet by John Cage at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (keep an eye out for a forthcoming review, or join us at the event on Friday November 11!). But in the meantime, while we are eagerly anticipating the opening, we’d like to offer you a snippet from describing a dictionary based on photography. Cage quotes from Duch.. read more... -
Alert: Duchamp CD Posted on Rhapsody.com
September 20, 2011 It's all in the title. For those who would like to listen to Duchamp read The Creative Act or by interviewed by the recently deceased Richard Hamilton, Duchamp's 2007 CD, The Creative Act, is now available for streaming on Rhapsody.com. Of course, it's only free for a seven day trial, but we recommend you use those seven days those seven days up by listening to that one CD over and over again. You won't regret it. Click here for link: .. read more... -
Looking in the Large Glass
September 13, 2011 It's in London and it's called Large Glass. What could it be? Turns out, it' a freshly minted "gallop" shop. And a "gallop" shop turns out to be a gallery that also functions as a store, a gallery-shop that offers both a faster pace and objects for sale right beside the art that hangs on the intimate and familiarly museum-white walls. As of July 8th, Large Glass is displaying art, objects, and books by artists such as Alvar Aalto, Jeff McMillan,.. read more... -
Gertrude Stein Autobiography Tops Time’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books List
September 5, 2011 Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas recently joined 99 hyped titles such as Freakonomics, Omnivore's Dilemma, Dreams from My Father, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and Fast Food Nation in Time Magazine's new list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books. Many of these titles have graced the Buy 2 Get 1 Free or Summer Reading aisles at Borders, several have been made into documentary films, and many authors have appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart o.. read more... -
Harold Bloom vs. the Avant-Garde
September 4, 2011 "now marjorie [perloff] was giving a talk based on the last chapter of her most recent book the poetics of indeterminacy the last chapter of which happens to deal with john cage and with me .. read more... -
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Daligramme Done by Lancel is at Galeries Lafayette
August 31, 2011 Did you know Salvador Dali created an eight character alphabet for his wife, Helene Dimitrievna Diakonava a.k.a. Gala, in the 1960s? He called the alphabet of love Daligramme, composing it out of redesigned and heavily stylized renditions of the letters G for Gradiva-Gala, D for Dali, and S for Salvador. In 1970 the French fashion company, Lancel, designed a handbag that featured Daligramme characters and a bicycle chain handle. ArtInfo reports that for three weeks.. read more... -
Automatism B: It Was a Failsafe Mechanism for Spandex
August 30, 2011 It was a failsafe mechanism for spandex. All along, if spandex went awry something would be there to rein it in, or so they thought. But it wasn't true, except now it was. People came from Red Hook, Brooklyn to Fish-hook, Brooklyn, to Red Fish Brooklyn, and over to Scared-ville Queens, just to see it. It was a tour-de-force that made no sense at all. Somewhere in the deep store of images that structure a composite of the urban landscape, spandex researchers and bike-spoke eng.. read more...