Philadelphia Museum Explores Arshile Gorky

September 23, 2009 One of the key themes of Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will be the artist’s profound engagement with the Surrealist movement throughout the 1940s. Gorky’s relationships with members of the Surrealist group in exile in the United States, including its leader, Andre Breton, as well as painters Yves Tanguy, Wifredo Lam, and Max Ernst, and his close friendship with the Chilean-born artist Roberto Matta all contributed to the development of his singular visual vocabul.. read more...

Museums in Minature: Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell

September 22, 2009 Museums in Miniature explores the use of collage, assemblage, and staged tableaux by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell as plays on the notion of an exhibition space. Evocative juxtapositions, absurdities, and rebuses abound in Cornell’s work, demonstrating the enduring influence of Duchamp’s practice, and of Surrealism more broadly, during the second half of the 20th century. Duchamp will be represented by MCASD’s The Green Box (1934) and by a version of his.. read more...

Surrealism at the Frist

September 18, 2009 Surrealism: seeing the ordinary as extraordinary was the theme of Dr. Therese Lichtenstein's photography and film exhibition, called 'Twilight Visions', which opened Thursday night at the Frist Center. The exhibition featured more than 120 photographs by French artists from the 1920's and 1930's, such as Man Ray, Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer and Brassai, and offered a unique insight to the social and political hardships during their culture's transition between world wars. .. read more...

The Creative Act, Marcel Duchamp

September 16, 2009

Listen free online to Duchamp’s "Session on the Creative Act" recorded live at the Convention of the American Federation of Arts in Houston, Texas, April 1957. CD also includes interviews with George Hamilton and Richard Hamilton as well as musical introludes.

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“Chance Aesthetics” to open Friday, Kemper Museum of Art

September 15, 2009 This upcoming exhibition to open Sept. 18 at Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art explores artists who incorporate chance as a decisive factor in the creation of an artwork. The work spans from the early 20th century and follows through to the 1970s. The exhibition includes over 60 works by Jean (Hans) Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Rot.. read more...

Marcel Duchamp:The Art of Chess

September 11, 2009 Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess opened yesterday at Francis Naumann Fine Art Gallery, it is the first exhibition to explore Duchamp's interest in chess and its effect on his artistic production. It has traveled from St. Louis University Museum of Art and includes unique additions of artists represented by Naumann.  <i>Also included in the show will be works by a number of Duchamp’s contemporaries—Man Ray, Georges de Zayas, Max Ernst, Salvador Dal&iacu.. read more...

Time Will Tell, Exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery Closes

September 8, 2009 Yale University Art Gallery recently closed an exhibition offering a rare opportunity to explore the process of fine-art conservation. "Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation" exhibits the techniques used and dilemmas faced by conservators and their process of preserving and restoring historic works of art. The artwork ranges from ancient Roman statues to instruments to twentieth century portraiture. The collection includes a portrait of Marcel Ducha.. read more...

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Shows a Portfolio of 10 Pochoirs by Man Ray

September 8, 2009 Man Ray (1890 Philadelphia – 1976 Paris) created Revolving Doors between 1916 and 1917 as a series of collages made from brightly colored translucent paper, which became the major exhibit in his third one-person show at the Daniel Gallery, New York (1919). In 1926 these images were published as pochoirs (true to the original) in a portfolio, and in 1942, noticing that the early collages began to fade, Ray reproduced them in oil on canvas. These paintings appear in sever.. read more...

Silence Sea and Marcel Duchamp, by Julius Ziz

September 4, 2009

Silence Sea and Marcel Duchamp(2000, USA/FRA 16mm, colour/b&w, 23 min.) was created from found 16mm footage of Marcel Duchamp and his wife Teeny playing a game of chess. He is pretending that he is winning but he is losing.

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