He was going to test the independence of this “Independent” group.
Marcel Duchamp
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Bathroom Humor ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also…
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No one would have played along if Duchamp pointed at the urinal in situ and said it was art.
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Back in 1993, in what to my own mind may count as the single most inspired feat of performance art of all time, Pinoncelli had urinated into the sculpture as it lay on display in Nîmes, France.
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Garcia referrs to his works as a “pseudo-spiritual-technology” that suggests Christianity and science can find some points of agreement only because the machines don’t work.
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Hong Kong to Beijing: an Art Fair, Ai Weiwei’s Complex, Monolithic Skyscrapers, the Forbidden City, and More!
Much of the art in China is in a dialogue between East/West and the absorption of modern art history. Duchamp! He seemed to be everywhere.
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Katie Wynne‘s A chain of non-events at Lawndale is an installation of various bits of crap semi-connected to one another. I don’t say “crap” in a pejorative way. I use it in the way…
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The ever-ready PR department at the Dallas Museum of Art informs us that one of their pieces, Gerald Murphy’s 1924 Razor, will be featured on a postage stamp commemorating the…
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In celebration of the Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this fall, Calvin Tomkins spoke at the Menil in conversation with director Josef Helfenstein. Because of the occasion, their discussion centered around…
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London’s Metropolitan Police Art Squad is investigating an incident at the Tate Modern in which a man scrawled words in black ink in a corner of Rothko’s Black on Maroon…
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Tumbleweeds We don’t have New York’s density, or Chicago’s architecture, or Los Angeles’ mythologized spaces. We don’t have San Francisco’s prices, Aspen’s lack of oxygen, Austin’s lack of pigment, and…