Trees + Flowers – Insects Animals: Man Ray; NEW Book June Release

May 14, 2009 "Trees + Flowers - Insects Animals" to be published later this upcoming June is a unseen collection of photographs by Man Ray, focusing on recurring themes he was not generally acclaimed for. The photographs subjects range from buildings, landscapes, grasshoppers, rocks, stars, trees, flowers, and animals. Unlike his infamous rayographs and solarized portraits of artworld celebrities, these works show his intimate attraction to using nature as conceptual forms in his compo.. read more...

NEW Film Release: “Little Ashes;” Salvador Dali, Luis Brunuel, Fredrico Garcia Lorca

May 12, 2009 Full Synopsis taken from Little Ashes Official Website: WARNING Spoiler Alert!! "Madrid in 1922 is a city wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at university at the age of 18 years old, determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university's social elite- Federico Garci.. read more...

This is Not a Museum: NEW Rene Magritte Museum, Opens June 2

May 11, 2009 On June 2, 2009, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium in collaboration with the Magritte Foundation will proudly open the long awaited Rene Magritte Museum. The museum will showcase over 170 works by Magritte separated chronologically by floor. In addition to its three floors of galleries the building is set to house vast archives of Magritte's paintings and drawings, photographs, letters, exhibition ephemera, as well as a library, resource center, and museum shop. Re.. read more...

“Surreal Things” at the Art Gallery of Ontario

May 8, 2009 Opening this past Saturday May 9: The Art Gallery of Ontario presents Surreal Things, an unparalleled theme first to exhibit the influence of Surrealism on 20th century design. The exhibition showcases the work of Surrealist artists and designers headlining: Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, and Elsa Schiaparelli. The exhibition focuses on Surrealism's contrib.. read more...

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture; New Book Release from MIT Press

May 6, 2009 In this past week MIT Press released Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture; the catalog's release conscides with the current exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, located at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. In addition to chronicling Duchamp's aliased self-portraiture, the exhibition and accompanying catalog also showcase portraits of Duchamp by both his peers and later contemporary artists including: Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis P.. read more...

Sculpture Displays Take Shape At Tate

May 3, 2009 As part of DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture,"artist Michael Craig-Martin will select and arrange works from the Tate Collection to focus on the complex ways that sculpture informs our understanding and experience of the physical world"  In the exhibit, which started May 1, Craig-Martin aims to "create a new context for the works in the collection" by taking over three of he Tate's gallerys and painting each one "a different vivid colour, centr.. read more...

Mike Figgis colloborates with
Tate for Film Project

May 3, 2009 Academy Award nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis is collobrating with the the Tate Liverpool and Tate Media to make a series of short films featuring conversations with people from Liverpool about the works of art in the Tate Collection.  Four works of art from the Tate Collection, including Marcel Duchamp's Fountain will be shown in public places around Liverpool and " members of the public will be invited to talk about the works in these new contexts." &nbs.. read more...

“After Images” at the Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

May 3, 2009 The current show "After Images", which runs until June 13 at the Paula Cooper Galley in New York, "illustrates how artists from Degas, Delacroix and Cézanne through Jasper Johns, Sophie Calle, Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine have based their work on paintings, drawings or sculptures from history".  The show will include loans from private collections and foundations as well as work by contempory artists that the gallery represents.  Conte.. read more...

Marcel Duchamp: Reinventing the Wheel

May 3, 2009 "The object in Tate Modern is white and shiny, cast in porcelain, its slender upper part curving outward as it descends to a receiving bowl - into which I urinate. It's just a brief walk from here in the fifth-floor men's loo to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, an object sealed in a plastic display case on a plinth that is nevertheless almost identical to the receptacle into which I've just pissed.... Duchamp warned against an attitude of 'aesthetic delectation' that would tra.. read more...