Dreams that Money Can Buy

July 29, 2009 Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Leger. The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. Desire: Max Ernst; The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart: Fernand Leg.. read more...

Happy Birthday Marcel Duchamp!!

July 29, 2009

Marcel Duchamp was born June 28, 1887. He was born in Blainville-Crevon Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie region of France. He died on October 2, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and is buried in the Rouen Cemetery, in Rouen, France. His grave bears the epitaph, “D’ailleurs, c’est toujours les autres qui meurent;” or “Besides, it’s always other people who die.”

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Paul & Nusch Eluard and Surrealism Exhibition

July 27, 2009 The National Galleries of Scotland currently presents an exhibition at their Dean Gallery exploring and chronicling the affair between Paul Eluard and his wife Nusch. The works are gathered from the Roland Penrose collection exhibited in a small, but overpacked front room gallery. The works in the collection explore Nusch's influence as muse on Eluard's work. The exhibition also includes collaborations with other artists in and outside of the Parisian Surrealist circle includ.. read more...

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Re-Invention

July 24, 2009 The Jewish Museum will present Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention from November 15, 2009 through March 14, 2010, a major exhibition considering how the artist’s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant experience and his lifelong evasion of his past. The exhibition explores the deliberate cultural ambiguity of Man Ray who became the first American artist to be accepted by the avant-garde in Paris . It also examines the dynamic .. read more...

Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the Most Profitable in Spain

July 23, 2009 Inaugurated in 1974, the Dali Theatre-Museum was built upon the remains of the former Figueres theatre. It contains the broadest range of works spanning the artistic career of Salvador Dali (1904-1989), from his earliest artistic experiences and his surrealist creations down to the works of the last years of his life. Spanish newspaper El Pais, today reported that the Dali Museum is the private museum that receives more guests in Spain (approximately 6,000 per day, compared.. read more...

Book Release: Marcel Duchamp, La Vita a Credito

July 22, 2009

Marcel Duchamp: La Vita a Credito was recently published in June by Johan and Levi. Written by Marcade Bernard, it has only as of now been published in Italian. While alot has been written on Duchamp’s work, this biography focuses more on Duchamp’s life beyond being an artist; focusing on his anarchist beliefs, "detached elegance", and indifference to money. The book chronicles how Duchamp defines the "art of living."

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Kemper Art Museum Announces Fall Schedule

July 21, 2009 The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University has announced its schedule for the 2009-2010 academic year. There will be two exhibitions in each of the fall and spring terms. Opening Sept. 18 and continuing through Jan. 4 will be “Chance Aesthetics,” featuring the work of Jean Arp, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth and Niki de Saint Phalle. The exhibition, organized by assistant curator Meredith Malone, features w.. read more...

For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn’t There

July 20, 2009 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents "For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn't There" an international group exhibition to open Sept. 11, 2009. For the blind man … celebrates the speculative nature of knowledge and proposes that curiosity matters more than understanding. While the artists featured in the exhibition all share our common urge to understand the world, they are also eager to keep art separate from explanation. As speculati.. read more...

Homage to Tinguely’s Homage a Marcel Duchamp

July 15, 2009 Homage to Tinguely's Homage a Marcel Duchamp, by Arthur Ganson "A double homage to Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely. The machine mimics the formal design of Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. In the place of the Bride is an image of Tinguely's own homage to Duchamp, and the mechanical elements of my machine loosely recall the Bachelors in Duchamp's original work. The machine was created while meditating on the works of these two masters." - Gans.. read more...