A Peep into Duchamp

August 17, 2009 Marcel Duchamp labored in secret for 20 years to produce what the painter Jasper Johns has called "the strangest work of art any museum has ever had in it." He might be right: The diorama known by its abbreviated French title Etant donnes is spectacularly bizarre, enigmatic, mysterious, disturbing, captivating, and, perhaps to some observers, repellent. None of those attributes is obvious, because Etant donnes is also as secluded as a cloistered nun. It has been one of the.. read more...

Jonah Bokaer’s Octave

August 14, 2009 Jonah Bokaer's - Octave from Giovanni Jubert on Vimeo. "A solo dance work composed through the use of DanceForms 1.0 software. To accompany the live choreography, Bokaer collected five thousand used MetroCards which were deposited onto the performance space creating an alarming audiovisual activity of flying décor and musical reverberation. The work collapses the traditional distinctions between movement, sound, and décor. Bokaer also recreated Marcel .. read more...

Surreal Things Revisited

August 12, 2009

The Art Gallery of Ontario has announced a two-week extension for its show Surreal Things, an exhibition of surrealist art organized by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism

August 11, 2009 Manchester Art Gallery's major new exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see outstanding works by women artists including Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller from public and private collections around the globe. Women played a huge, but at the time not fully recognised, part in the Surrealist movement. Only recently has an appreciation grown of how crucial women’s contributions were in this movement. Artists such as Meret Oppenheim, Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington.. read more...

MOMA Photography Collection Grows

August 10, 2009

The Museum of Modern Art’s Photography Department announced it has recently acquired 39 works by photographer Richard Avedon, in addition to some 60 photographs from the collection of Suzanne Winsberg.
Avedon’s photographs include portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Malcom X. These were part purchase and part gift from the Avedon Foundation, established in 2004.

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Chance Aesthetics at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010

August 5, 2009 Organized by Meredith Malone, assistant curator for the Kemper Art Museum, Chance Aesthetics will feature more than 60 artworks by more than 40 avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States, including Jean Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Tanguy, among many others. At the exhibition's heart is a .. read more...

Philadelphia Museum Celebrates Etant Donnes Anniversary

August 4, 2009 The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to examine the genesis, construction, and reception of Etant donnes: 1 la chute d'eau, 2 le gaz deeclairage (Given: 1 The Waterfall, 2 The Illuminating Gas), Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic final masterwork. Duchamp (1887-1968) constructed Etant donnes in complete secrecy over a period of twenty years, from 1946 to 1966, during which he publicly claimed to have gone “underground” and given up art for chess. Th.. read more...

Talk Show

August 3, 2009 On Thursday, August 6th, EAI presents Talk Show, the second of two outdoor evening screenings on the rooftop of the X Initiative. Talk Show presents works by artists who use video to bring the interview into their art. Included in the program are Tony Oursler's interview with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon; a 1982 video "magazine edition" by MICA-TV (Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen) and Richard Prince; Chris Burden's Big Wrench, a video confessional in which he recounts .. read more...

BE THE ARTIST FAMILY PROGRAM

July 31, 2009

BE THE ARTIST FAMILY PROGRAM 

Art classes teaching young people about the art of Marcel Duchamp. A class for kids ages 10-14 runs from noon to 2 p.m., another for children ages 5-10 lasts from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. 202-633-1000 or http://www.npg.si.edu. Free. Saturday 12 to 5:30.

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