The Leepa-Rattner Museum Of Art Surrealism Lecture

June 15, 2009 Salvador Dali Museum's curator of education Peter Tush, will present Surrealism in the 1930s, a multimedia look at the developments of Surrealism in the 1930s June 25 at 7 p.m. The lecture will cover the International Exposition of Surrealism in 1938 and the evolution of the Surrealist movement during the years prior to the Second World War. The cost is $5 for members; $8 for non-members and free for students. The lecture will be held in the museum auditorium. To foster.. read more...

N. Mutt, 2009: Interview with artist Nena Amsler

June 12, 2009 Artist Nena Amsler is no stranger to Duchampian puns, and likewise, exploring the boundaries of art through a combination of formal and conceptual painting. She recently had a solo show at Kristi Engle Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) entitled N. Mutt 2009, May 2 - May 30. While her primary focus is painting, her current work expands the possibilities of what constitutes a painting. "This exhibition's title, N. Mutt 2009, is an appropriation from the title of Marcel Duchamp's ic.. read more...

I’d give it to you if I could but I borrowed it

June 9, 2009 I'd Give it to you if I could but I borrowed it, Guy Ben-Ner, 2007 (video installation) In order to view Guy Ben-Ner's video installation "I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it," the viewer must mount and "ride" one of the two stationary bicycles installed in the gallery. The video, displayed on a monitor mounted on the handlebars, is powered by pedaling the bicycle. The video depicts Ben-Ner and his two children stealing parts from famous art.. read more...

Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century to Now

June 9, 2009

The UK Times cast a public poll of 1.4 million voters to find out who were the top 200 artists since 1900.
Its no surprise we find Marcel Duchamp within the top five highest rank, coming in at 5th place with 20,647 votes. According to the public he champions Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol by over 3,000 votes.

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Cinematic Works from the Menil Archives

June 7, 2009 The film archives at The Menil Collection are replete with art movies of every stripe, as today's 90-minute al fresco sampler of goodies, Menil Movies: Cinematic Works from the Menil Archives, demonstrates. There are interviews with Buckminster Fuller and Marcel Duchamp, rare interviews with the great Man Ray, and Robert Wilson’s weirdly surreal, and short, video sketchbooks. There’s also footage of rifle-wielding feminist sculptor Niki De Saint Phalle creating one of her.. read more...

Witches Cradle (1943); Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren

June 4, 2009 An unfinished collaboration between filmmaker Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp. (1943) Watch Part I and Part II .. read more...

Duchamp, Miro, Marc, Monet and Picasso Highlight Christie’s Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art

June 3, 2009 The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place at Christie's on 23 June and will offer 46 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Joan Miro, Camille Pissarro and Marcel Duchamp. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £40 million and will be on public view at Christie’s in London from 18 to 23 June 2009. Deux nus: un fort et un vite, 1912, by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) Deux nus: .. read more...

Can artists create art by doing nothing?

June 2, 2009 More than 20 artists will pay homage to Felicien Marboeuf in an eclectic exhibition opening in Paris next week. Although he's hardly a household name, Marboeuf (1852-1924) inspired both Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. Having been the model for Frederic Moreau, he resolved to become an author lest he should remain a character all his life. But he went on to write virtually nothing: his correspondence with Proust is all that was ever published - and posthumously at that. Ma.. read more...

Reflections, Refractions at the National Portrait Gallery

May 29, 2009 Coinciding with the current exhibition Inventing Marcel Duchamp the National Portrait Gallery is also hosting Reflections, Refractions, "an ideal companion piece to the Duchamp-inspired portraiture show featuring works of self-examination by a coterie of influential creators, from Childe Hassam to Edward Hopper to Andy Warhol." Intentionally the work is in the same vein as the Duchamp exhibit, exploring manipulated portraiture and the artists' break away from representation.. read more...