Yves Saint Laurent's Moroccan Villa On The Block at Christie's
The interiors of the 9,688-square-foot home were designed by Jacques Grange, with landscaping by Madison Cox.
Who are the greatest modern artists?
Who are the 200 greatest artists of the 20th century? The UK Times conducted a poll to find out, and a whopping 1.4 million votes were cast. The results might surprise you -- for instance, I'd expe...
Theater Review of 'The Woman Who Amuses Herself' at Theater Alliance
Ah, the intrigue of art theft! Criminal masterminds swiping creative masterpieces -- nifty characters and juicy story, right?
Taking the pop out of surrealism
Excerpt Refreshing AGO show tracks evolution of movement from moral philosophy to cash cow Surreal Things, one of the Art Gallery of Ontario's blockbuster-hopeful summer shows, opens to the p...
The undercover agents
Excerpt ...that was wittier and more conceptually rigorous than this show. The artists were of the first rank: Sol LeWitt, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Richard Prince, among others. I've ne...
Picasso’s lifelong dialogue with past masters
No one understood better than Picasso that slang was the inevitable language of modern art. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction,” he said.
Picasso: Don’t look back
There are two well-worn ways of telling the story of Picasso’s art. There’s the story of the succession of his new mistresses. There’s the story of the succession of his old masters. They’re not ba...
Louvre sets stage for 'Funeral of Mona Lisa'
A giant, grey version of Mona Lisa with tears in her eyes and streaks of paint running down her front goes on display at the Louvre museum this week in the room next to the original by Leonardo da ...
MoMA Atlantic/Pacific project, Pablo Picasso, Doug Aitken, Pipilotti Rist, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gurs
Excerpt ...d’Avignon, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Claude Monet’s Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, and Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans. T...
On DVD: "Brand Upon' has a very little brain, too many (d)effects
Paint Snoopy on a canvas — using marmite — and call it "Peace Treaty." Cut up the instructions on a box of condoms and mix them in with your grocery list and read it at your next coffee shop open m...
Art exhibit will raise funds for good cause
MANALAPAN — The cold weather and snow-covered landscapes visible around town this season create the perfect setting for a special project that the students at the Chesterbrook Academy are working o...
Unconcerned, But Not Indifferent - Man Ray - Opens at Hague Museum of Photography
Man Ray (1890-1976), Noire et Blanche, 1926. © Man Ray Trust c/o Pictoright Amsterdam. THE HAGUE.- Man Ray (1890-1976) used his camera to turn photography into an art – no mean feat for a man who t...
Brian Dillon on Andy Warhol's infamous Screen Tests
Excerpt ...Screen Tests. © 2008 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved After Marcel Duchamp, who had thought of everything first, Andy Warho...
CAM to exhibit Surrealist masters
The Cincinnati Art Museum will be the sole U.S. venue for an exhibition that features works by the greatest masters of Dada and Surrealist art, including Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max...
Krasl offers noontime videos
Excerpt ...Lake Blvd., announces its Noontime Videos. The winter series will include: âWho Gets to Call it Art?â on Feb. 6 and 13; âMarcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess,â Feb. 20; âDavid H...
Cincinnati Art Museum Only U.S. Venue for Internationally Acclaimed Exhibition on Surrealist and Dada Art
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum will be the sole U.S. venue for an exhibition that features works by the greatest masters of Dada and Surrealist art, including Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duch...
Local Legend Examines "Hometown" Concept in Multi-media Exhibit
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- In the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Modern ’s exhibit, Atomicelroy's Hometown, artist Atomic Elroy explores the myth and madness of his 40-year dysfunctional relationshi...
Winter Cultural Preview: Visual arts
No matter how far the temperature drops, Montreal's artistic fires keep burning. And with vernissages often turning galleries into saunas, a little wintertime art does a body good in more ways than...
Best Bets
CIRCUS: Thrill to the gravity-defying antics of the Los Scolas troupe when Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey bring the "Boom A Ring" circus spectacular to the Civic Center for a three-day stand.
Best Bets
MUSIC: Donna the Buffalo has been making conscious party music long enough to accumulate a whole herd of loyal and enthusiastic fans. But the years haven't dulled the band's musical edge, nor has t...
Boxed In
It?s hard not to be seduced by Stacey D?Erasmo?s selfish hero, an artist whose hunger for expression, for a father and for a home embodies a sense of entrapment that could make anyone behave badly.
The Fifth floor: Ideas taking space, Tate, Liverpool
Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes, because you might get it. Would Marcel Duchamp, submitting his urinal to an exhibition in 1917 in order to show that art is anything we want it to be ...
Obituary: Art World Loses Singular and Durable Talents this Year
Swiss Art Collector Hildy Beyeler Died at Age 86. The art world lost some singular and durable talents this past year.
Our Paris greeter finds a winner
Excerpt ...thought Thurleigh5 rose to the challenge very nicely, calling Paris "a most intoxicating place", so did Plinyme in a Marcel Duchamp kind of way: "I love Paris because... You can wake...
Artist and entrepreneur, Curtis Steiner shows us the value of objects ordinary or odd
Ballard gift-store owner Curtis Steiner applies his exquisite taste to both creating and finding things people will value as beautiful.
Celebrating the Old New Rather Than the New New
The S.E.M. Ensemble offered a program of modern antiquities on Thursday at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea.
Green Glossary: Readymade
Excerpt ...Duchamp, arguably the most important artist of the twentieth century, became known for his readymadesâ¦but that doesnât mean he could describe what he was doing. "The curious thin...
'Drip Music' — by George Brecht
Excerpt ...when Abstract Expressionism and the cult of the heroic creative genius were ascendant. Inspired by the Conceptual art of Marcel Duchamp and the experimental music of John Cage, he be...
"Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)" at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre
If a YouTube-addicted Marcel Duchamp ran the collected works of Monty Python through a Cuisinart, he might produce an entertainment as agreeably dizzying as "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind ...
Music Review: Kevin Barnes Dresses Down for His Two-Night Stand
Excerpt ...a lusty cheer. “I’ll play the satyr in Cyprus, you the bride being stripped bare.” (Did everyone on the floor get the Marcel Duchamp allusion? Would it make a difference if they didn...
George Brecht, 82, Fluxus Conceptual Artist, Is Dead
Mr. Brecht was a core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful Conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s.
George Brecht, 82, Fluxus Conceptual Artist, Is Dead
Mr. Brecht was a core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful Conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s.
Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro Presents Man Ray: Unconcerned but not Indifferent
Man Ray: Noire et Blanche, 1936, Black and White Transpare. © Man Ray Trust. NUORO.-
Art Basel Miami 2008
Miami Beach, Florida, USA – The seventh edition of Art Basel Miami Beach closed on Sunday, December 7, 2008. More than 250 galleries from 33 countries exhibited works by over 2,000 artists.
Artistic Differences [All]
Excerpt ...1917 French artist Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Eighty-seven years later it was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 art world profes...
Made in America
A plucky creative team has translated Gertrude Stein's sprawling "cubist novel" into a multimedia, avant-garde opera at the Walker.
Hans Jean Arp featured at Strasbourg Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art
Excerpt ...has been described as the “Sistine Chapel of Modern Art”. An oeuvre which transcends labels : “For Arp, art is Arp”, said Marcel Duchamp. For Arp, art is not limited to one definiti...
Turner Prize reflects a 'new language'
It has become not just a barometer of the state and direction of British contemporary art but also a fixture on the social calendar.
Art is Arp - Drawings, Collages, Reliefs, Sculptures, Poetry at Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Hans Jean Arp, Cravates et tête ou Configuration au chef perdu, 1925, bois peint, 52 x 56 x 6 cm, Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg, legs, André Horn, 1948, © photo Musé...
Most Important Art Fair in the U.S. - Seventh Annual Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 Opens
Perotin: Paola Pivi, If you like it, thank you. If you don’t like it, I am sorry. Enjoy anyway, 2007. Aluminum, fiberglass, plexiglass rhinestones, 520x1427x27 cm, 20.5x47 feet x10.5 inches.
Local sculptor challenges the fundamentals of his medium
Sculptor Isaac Duncan III took an indirect path from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to Chattanooga. He completed a bachelor of fine arts degree at University of Notre Dame and a master of fine arts ...
Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'aids'
Photo by guspim. Forget stigma as we know it: a new "criminal" label now applies to some members of the HIV/AIDS community.
Artist of the week 18: Guido van der Werve
Guido van der Werve has been described as the love child of German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich and the Dutch conceptualist Bas Jan Ader . He has that northern European preoccupation wit...
Charlie Russell painting stolen from private club
HELENA - Police say burglars broke into a private club here and made off with thousands of dollars worth of art, including a painting by the famed artist Charlie Russell.
Helena police correct inaccurate list of missing art Posted on Dec. 2
HELENA - Helena police have corrected the list of art missing after a weekend burglary at a private club.
Russell painting stolen
HELENA — Police say burglars broke into a private club in Helena and made off with thousands of dollars worth of art, including a painting by the famed artist Charlie Russell.
Rock Hall Annex takes visitors on a magical history tour and makes a pitch for Cleveland
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens New York site NEW YORK -- One of the first things you see at the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC is a 10-minute film of iconic performers...
Mariah, Madonna And Me: The Top 10 Turkeys Of 2008, In Bigger Than The Sound
Mariah, Madonna and me: The top 10 turkeys of 2008, in Bigger Than the Sound.
Christopher Nosnibor's latest project tackles questions of authorship, plagiarism and the cult of personality head on.
Excerpt ...notions of literature' and then signing a limited number of copies, I'm reasserting the same sentiments expressed by Marcel Duchamp with his readymades.' Signed / numbered copies of ...
The Quick and the Dead
Excerpt ...to turn them into sculpture parks. "You know what I want when I die? I want my ashes dumped inside a bronze sculpture of Marcel Duchamp playing chess alone. There'll be an empty chai...
Urban Outfitters designs an L.A. mini-mall with scenesters in mind
Space 15 Twenty is built around one-off fashion installations, art exhibitions and emerging labels. And that's just for starters. Urban Outfitters is turning the mini-mall into a scenester hangout....
Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'polls'
Original graphic by Dave Meslin for Who Runs This Town? recoloured by Jonathan Goldsbie.
Time Off: Cultural Events Around Europe
Excerpt ...by French photographer Gisèle Freund (1908-2000), including images of Walter Benjamin, James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Duchamp, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and George Be...
Susan Hiller: a sceptical spirit?
The artist's ghostly artworks send shivers down my spine, but is her preoccupation with the paranormal just an artistic masquerade?
Susan Hiller: a sceptical spirit?
The artist's ghostly artworks send shivers down my spine, but is her preoccupation with the paranormal just an artistic masquerade?
Jewelry by Alexander Calder goes on show in New York
Best known for colorful mobiles and monumental "stabiles," the American-born sculptor Alexander Calder also made unpretentious and elegantly simple personal jewelry, using brass, precious metals an...
New Edward Hopper exhibition focuses on women
Edward Hopper was 31 when the 1913 Armory Show opened in New York. If thrilled to be included among the 300 European and American artists in the largely modernist spectacle, he failed to record it,...
The Novelist in His Literary Labyrinth
Roberto Bolaño?s five-part posthumous magnum opus is grounded in the real chronicle of unsolved sex crimes in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with hundreds of women dead and the of their killers still uncle...
The Novelist in His Literary Labyrinth
Roberto Bolaño?s five-part posthumous magnum opus is grounded in the real chronicle of unsolved sex crimes in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with hundreds of women dead and the of their killers still uncle...
My life in art: I was bitten by Jeff Koons's dog
I hate fireworks. They're expensive, even more disappointing than a Bob Dylan gig and are gratuitously noisy. The unexpected bangs make me jump and petrify my dog. Tonight we will be going to bed t...
Surrealist Masks - Creepy Wearable Sculptures (GALLERY)
Excerpt ...these quirky wearable sculptures which are tailored, original designs that masters of Surrealism such as Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp would be very proud of. Rasmussen owns a c...
Book retells adventure of local hero
That "America's Oskar Schindler" hailed from Ridgewood may be a surprise to some people. That his biographer should hail from Arkansas is a bit of a surprise — even to her.
The Centre Pompidou salutes Futurism ~ The First Avant-garde Movement of the 20th century
Excerpt ...than 200 works and documents. All the Futurist painters, as well as Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Félix Del Marle, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Frantiek Kupka, Fernand Léger,...
Art meets advertising
By Dorothy Shinn Beacon Journal art and architecture critic Who pays attention to commercials?
Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Day Sales Are Highlighted By Established Artists
Damien Hirst (b. 1965), Afterworld, signed, titled and dated 'Afterworld 2007 Damien Hirst' (on the reverse), Butterflies and household gloss enamel on canvas, diameter: 48 in. (121.9 cm.). Execute...
Murals and Marriage
Famed Mexican artist Diego Rivera is known best for two things: his monumental murals and his tumultuous marriage to fellow artist Frida Kahlo. But like every great painting, and like every great l...
The Trouble With Memoirs
Excerpt ...my grandfather with a bit character named Dr. Gerschizhvesky in his novel "Ada"); had got himself thrashed at chess by Marcel Duchamp; was propositioned on an airplane by Marlene Die...
Neue Nationalgalerie Presents Cult of the Artist: Jeff Koons - Celebration
Balloon Dog Red, high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 121 x 143 x 45 inches. 307.3 x 363.2 x 114.3 cm, 5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red), 1994-2000. © ...
The unsung system that makes walking possible
The vestibular system, a paired set of tiny sensory organs tucked deep into the temporal bone on either side of the head, is key to our understanding where we are and what we're doing.
More than a dozen Fairfield County and Westchester County restaurants are offering some of their finest French ...
A Night in Paris / Une Nuit à Paris on Friday, Nov. 7, to support the Bruce Museum in Greenwich.
1000 artworks to see before you die: Michelangelo
Without him, we wouldn't see artists as geniuses. We would just see them as useful decorators
Dennis Hopper: Remembering the way it was
Excerpt ...Angeles for $75 and in 1963 unscrewed the entrance sign of the Green Hotel in Pasadena (it shows a pointed finger) and got Marcel Duchamp to sign it, thereby collaborating on a Ducha...
The Unappreciated, Holding Our Lives in Balance
The vestibular system is a Joe Sixth-Sense, laboring in anonymity and frequently misunderstood.
Lucerne Museum of Art displays a Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective
Excerpt ...each individual photograph contains within itself the conceptual space of the respective series as a whole. The of Marcel Duchamp and of American Minimal and Conceptual Art have been...
Artists beginning with D
The only painting of fairies that's truly convincing? While incarcerated in Bedlam after murdering his father, Dadd spent nine years working on this spellbinding image. And it's not just down to th...
Q&A with "I Am My Own Wife" playwright Doug Wright
John Moore's full Q&A from 2006 with "I Am My Own Wife" playwright Doug Wright.
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Announces Richard Avedon Exhibition for 2009
Richard Avedon, Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, May 6, 1957. AMSTERDAM.-
Heritage art: Museum to host two exhibits
Two upcoming exhibits at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art will not only give viewers the sensory experience of looking at fine art, but also provide them with an insight into the beginnings of moder...
Diana and Actaeon. The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body Opens in Dusseldorf
Eric Fischl, Bad Boy, 1981, Öl auf Leinwand, 167,5 x 244 cm. Privatsammlung, Courtesy Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich. Courtesy: Eric Fischl. DUSSELDORF.-
You Call That Art?
Appreciating the unconventional.
Whitney Museum Presents a New Look at Alexander Calder
Prima Donna, Woman with Bow, and Horse from Calder's "Circus" 1926-31. Mixed media , dimensions variable.
Exploring Surrealism, a New American Century and the Manipulation of Film Stock
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis unveiedl a historical and contemporary look at surrealism, a cultural movement rooted in the 1920s.
Social Souvenir
Excerpt ...represented in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark's collection. Artists such as Yoko Ono, Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp and Per Højholt on 300 T-shirts that are exhibi...
Centre Pompidou Marks the Centenary of the Publication of Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto
Umberto Boccioni, La Risata, 1911 [Le Rire]. Huile sur toile 110,2 x 145,4 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Don de Herbert et Nannette Rothschild, 1959. Digital Image © 2007, The Museum of ...
This Week in Art Openings: Christoph Draeger, Yuichi Higashionna & Berlinde de Bruyckere
Excerpt ...is fascinated with disaster, and so is Christoph Draeger. In this exhibition, Draeger takes the work of iconic artists Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Hitchcock and Michelangelo Antonioni and...
Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms Opens at The Hayward Gallery in London
Bibbe Hansen, who appeared in the Andy Warhol films 'Prison' and 'Restaurant', observes part of the works of art made by the artist on view at the Hayward Gallery in London. Photo: EFE / Andy Rain.
Thomas Sutcliffe: A simpler way to keep our hospitals clean
NHS administrators and hospital directors have been warned that they could face prosecution for manslaughter if their negligence is proved to have led to a death from MRSA or any other hospital acq...
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/6/2008
Excerpt ...life-size camel sculptures as ânovelty art.â Aside from meeting some of the most famous artists of our time, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, Tuckerâs personal story involves ...
Tate St. Ives Presents Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Heimo Zobernig (b.1958), Untitled, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, © Archive HZ. ST. IVES, UK.-
Documentary spins fascinating portrait of Louise Bourgeois
'Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine," a fascinating documentary, connects biography with art history.
Creator as Icon: Berlin Explores the 'Cult of the Artist'
Excerpt ...as an author of aesthetic creation. The roster for the exhibit ranges from early-20th century artists like the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp to more recent practitioners like Martin Kippenb...
News Briefs
The explicit exhibit, "AGENCY: Art and Advertising," will open the 2008-2009 season for the McDonough Museum of Art. It will run through Nov. 8, and will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m...
Princeton University Art Museum Premieres Jasper Johns Exhibition
Jasper Johns, American, born 1930. Light Bulb I, 1958. Sculp-metal, 11.4 x 17.1 x 11.4 cm. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, gift of Mrs. Jack M. Farris. Photo: © Jasper Johns...
On this day in hIstory - Oct. 2
Excerpt ...Mexico City just days before the Olympic Games are due to begin. 1968 - Kelly Willis was born. Country singer.1968 - Marcel Duchamp dies (b. 1887). French painter and sculptor. 1970...
Ahead of the game
One might easily make the case that Marcel Duchamp (born 1887) more than anybody else is at the bottom of pretty much everything going on in the art world right now. His influence, first felt with ...
What is art?
Excerpt Over the past year, the art on “Feel Art Again” has ranged from the traditional masters (Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, both shown above) to the highly controversial (DuanPen, Mar...
Reasons That We?ll Always Have Paris
Three upcoming exhibitions focus on the symbiotic relationship between New York and Paris.
Trash or treasure: The designer objects made of rubbish
The phrase "green is the new black" is thrown around with great enthusiasm but, like any trend, will this 21st-century impulse towards green living soon start to look and sound dreary and outdated?...
Historical turn at Sydney biennale
The opening of the 16th Biennale of Sydney in June arrived on the heels of a national controversy in Australia, after police had removed works from an exhibition of renowned photographer Bill Henso...
Galleries and Exhibits
ARTISTS' UNION GALLERY: Through Aug. 24: Charmed, a members exhibit. Noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays, and noon to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 330 S. California St., Ventura. 643-3012; http:/...
George Nelson's bold look went beyond future schlock
The Vitra Design Museum at Weil am Rhein in Germany is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Nelson's birth with a retrospective of his work, opening Sept. 13.
17 Miami artists get display in `exhibition in print'
At a time when contemporary art seems dominated by either technological high-jinks or reinterpretations of found objects, the 2008 southern edition of New American Paintings (Open Studios, $20) is ...
17 Miami artists get display in `exhibition in print'
At a time when contemporary art seems dominated by either technological high-jinks or reinterpretations of found objects, the 2008 southern edition of New American Paintings (Open Studios, $20) is ...
17 Miami artists get display in `exhibition in print'
At a time when contemporary art seems dominated by either technological high-jinks or reinterpretations of found objects, the 2008 southern edition of New American Paintings (Open Studios, $20) is ...
The 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube
Among millions of clips is a treasure trove of rare and fascinating arts footage lovingly posted by fans
Esfahani-Smith: Do You Sea What I Sea?
Excerpt “I saw five nights a noble moonrise over a noble beach. I also went to the shore before sunrise and saw the sun rising like Venus from the sea.” American-born landscape painter Dwight T...
"Yoko Ono ~ Between the Sky & My Head" Exhibition Featured at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Excerpt BIELEFELD, GERMANY -Yoko Ono, born in 1933 in Tokyo, is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art. In 1952, she became one of the first women in Japan to study philosophy. In 1953 she took ...
Charlotte Higgins on cycling
Excerpt One night, my friend Paul and I were admiring our bikes as they leaned against the pub railings. "Beautiful, aren't they," he said fondly. "Two triangles and two circles." Marcel Ducham...
Money Talks on This Phone
Excerpt The blogosphere is abuzz about a very unusual iPhone application for sale in the iTunes store: "I Am Rich," an app that costs $999.99 and does nothing but display a blinking red light o...
Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes
Excerpt This is the first exhibition to examine the genesis, construction, and reception of Etant donnes: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'eclairage (Given: 1° The Waterfall, 2° The Illuminating ...
Changing Art Forever: Marcel Duchamp
Excerpt (“Church at Blainville,” “Sundays,” “Portrait of the Artist’s Father,” “Nude Descending a Staircase”) Four readers requested a post on Marcel Duchamp, one of the most controversial and ...
July 28 Todays Notable Birthdays
Excerpt Is July 28th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on July 28th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion? If today is your birthday, then you are in exc...
Today is Monday, July 28, the 210th day of 2008 with 156 to follow.
Excerpt Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator of the Peter Rabbit stories, in 1866; surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp in 1887; co...
The art of repurposing - with elegance
Excerpt Think of Alexander Calder, and the first thing to come to mind would likely be the suspended abstract sculptures that silently orbit above the heads of museumgoers around the world. Tho...
Rarely seen Alexander Calder jewelry on display in Philadelphia
Excerpt Think of Alexander Calder, and the first thing to come to mind would likely be the suspended abstract sculptures that silently orbit above the heads of museumgoers around the world. Th...
Municipal Art Society Party for Preservation 7/15
Excerpt From MAS: Galapagos is New York’s newest and most exciting example of how preservation can go green. Many people are careful about recycling newspapers, plastic bags and bottles, but fe...
DJ Spooky, "Sound Unbound"
Excerpt DJ Spooky's brand of audio-collage transcends his labors as archaeologist and cuckoo. With dozens of sound sources including Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Raymond Scott, Sun Ra, and Mort...
Art to wear, if you dare: Calder jewelry on view
Excerpt PHILADELPHIA — Think of Alexander Calder, and the first thing to come to mind would likely be the suspended abstract sculptures that silently orbit above the heads of museum-goers aroun...
Art to wear, if you dare: Calder jewelry on view
Excerpt PHILADELPHIA — Think of Alexander Calder, and the first thing to come to mind would likely be the suspended abstract sculptures that silently orbit above the heads of museumgoers around...
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia Exhibit at Museo Nacional D'Art de Catalunya
Excerpt BARCELONA - This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picab...
Habitats | Lincoln Center: Sacrificing Space for Scenery
Excerpt “IT’S a view with an apartment,” said Mark Del Vecchio of his home on the 42nd floor of a beige brick behemoth near Lincoln Center. Indeed, the panorama, which stretches from the Statue...
In the eye of the beholder One man's garbage may be this artist's next piece
Excerpt Bilingual a sculptural wall hanging comprised of old furniture, beads and Caribbean shakers. Lady in the Red Polka Dot Dress an old mannequin painted and decorated "to show something a...
“Sparks!” exhibit shows how Nelson-Atkins has spent 9 million
Excerpt It’s a shock to see big galleries of contemporary art with room to breathe at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.But that’s what you get with “Sparks!” the long-a...
Kunsthalle Bielefeld Presents 'POP' Originator Richard Hamilton ~ Virtual Spaces
Excerpt BIELEFELD, GERMANY - The Kunsthalle Bielefeld presents Richard Hamilton. Virtual Spaces, on view May 25 to August 10, 2008. Richard Hamilton, born in 1922 in London, is one of this cent...
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
Excerpt It may be the least of the many things that Robert Rauschenberg will be remembered for. But in summing up the great legacy of the artist, who died on May 12 at 82, let's pause to rememb...
Artist waxes nostalgic with new works
Excerpt By JEREMY D. BONFIGLIO Tribune Staff Writer SOUTH BEND Heath Yenna hasnt given up on collage. Hes just taken it a step further. For Wax Nostalgic: An Exhibition of New Paintings at The ...
Olafur Eliasson's Anti-Sublime Enchantment
Excerpt P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City Through June 30 Photos from the show by Eudie Pak "Art is about communication,' I reminded a painter friend as s...
Olafur Eliasson's Anti-Sublime Enchantment
Excerpt P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City Through June 30 Photos from the show by Eudie Pak "Art is about communication,' I reminded a painter friend as s...
Datebook
Excerpt Through the end of this month, visitors will have the chance to catch the work of Kesang Lamdark, a Tibetan-born artist who was raised in Switzerland and studied in New York. The free e...
Visual arts calendar, April 24-30
Excerpt ART EVENTS ART ON THE HILL: More than 30 artists display and sell their work, music by the Overtones (11 a.m.-1 p.m.) and children’s make-and-take art area. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sou...
MoMA Exhibits Book/Shelf
Excerpt The Museum of Modern Art presents Book/Shelf, an exhibition that explores an expanded notion of the illustrated book. The exhibition features approximately 70 works from the Museum's co...
Free Bird
Excerpt A new collective blog called Il-Manoċċa was launched yesterday by a group of Maltese men seeking an alternative outlet for their progressive I equate most white wines with cat piss but ...
Kirkland Arts Center's new exhibition "Weldon Butler: Visual Abstractions" spans a range of his work
Excerpt Talk about inspiration: When Weldon Butler first tuned in to art as a kid in Philadelphia, the stuff he was exposed to at his local art museum included greatest hits of the 20th century...
LACMA Organizes Major Exhibit of Chicano Art
Excerpt Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: A large exhibition of Chicano art opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this Sunday. The show explores how a branch of art produced by Mexican-American acti...
Woe is Whitney: Biennial is a dreary montage of headline blues
Excerpt The Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2008 Biennial exhibition is a worthy but trying affair. Featuring works by 81 artists, this latest roundup of talents and trends is filled with mark...
Movie Review | 'The Cool School': Birth of Los Angeles Art, Assisted by Hip Midwives
Excerpt The Ferus Gang, featured in the documentary "Cool School," directed by Morgan Neville. “The Cool School,” a breezy, lively documentary about a thin slice of the Los Angeles fine art sce...
I’m EschaConning — Are You?
Excerpt I sure as hell wish I was Eschaconning - what a great line up ! i went to ther 1st Escha con,now im busy here locally back then there were few progressive voices…now we have a gigantic ...
There is no difference between life and death
Excerpt This photo shows John Cage and Daisetz Suzuki in 1962. Now playing is Cage's 36 Mesotics re and not so re Marcel Duchamp which is dedicated to the Japanese video artist Shigeko Kubota a...
at the galleries
Excerpt NEW YORK—These days at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), security guards are sporting spiffy new vests designed by veteran French artist/theorist Daniel Buren, with their broad, vertical...
MOMA CHILD
Excerpt March 8, 2008 -- SO many museums, so little time - and so few that please parent and kid alike. But that's what the Museum of Modern Art has done with two new shows: "Color Chart" and "...
Marcel Duchamp: Anything Goes
Excerpt The new exhibition at London's Tate Modern features three heavy hitters, the Frenchmen Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, and the American Man Ray. They are associated with the Dada an...
The weekend's television choices
Excerpt Fireman Sam Five, 7.55am This channel’s justly popular Milkshake! strand brings new episodes of an old favourite to Five’s legions of young viewers. In today’s animated antics in Po...
Tate Modern Presents Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray & Francis Picabia Exhibition
Excerpt LONDON - Tate Modern presents Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, on view through May 26, 2008. This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figure...
'It takes the piss out of the critic'
Excerpt Jonathan Jones ponders the meaning of one of the most influential pieces of 20th-century art, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, on show at Tate Modern If you need help using the site: userh...
'Seeing the City' offers in-depth view of N.Y.
Excerpt On New Year's Eve 1916, French artist Marcel Duchamp, famed for his painting "Nude Descending the Staircase" (1912), climbed to the top of New York's Washington Square Arch, along with ...
Irving Penn photographs in Morgan Library exhibit
Excerpt The Morgan exhibit is made up entirely of photos Penn made on assignment for Vogue and other publications over his 60-year career. Many of these images are the very ones that spring to ...
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Excerpt This provocative exhibition presents three colossal 20th century artists who changed the course of art forever - Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptualism and creator of the "readymad...
Core77 Broadcasts: Ze Frank at Core77 Offsite NYC
Excerpt In this video, Ze kicks off the day by introducing Marcel Duchamp's The Creative Act, and breaking down the triad of players in the metaphoric room--here, Designer, Object, and Audience...
Modern art makes a splash
Excerpt It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time, not even a century ago, when no one much cared about modern art in America. There was no Museum of Modern Art, no gallery district in Man...
Picasso: No. 1 With a Palette
Excerpt We all know who's the most celebrated artist of the century. The question is: why him? Source Info Newsweek
