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02/08/2017

I just came across these amazing contemporary Ta***ic illustrations from Rajasthan. "The progeny of seventeenth-century illustrated religious treatises," as Amazon explains, "these drawings have evolved into a distinct visual lexicon designed to awaken heightened states of consciousness and are im...

12/07/2011

Discover Hahn-Bin and The Renaissance of Classical Music !!!
http://marcelduchamp.net/news.php?id=709

Twenty-three year old Hahn-Bin is staging a coup. In his opinion, classical music has been held too long by the hegemonic forces of alienating traditionalism - despite the fact that many famous composers of the past were, as Hahn-Bin coined them in an interview on the NBC Today Show, examples of "a ...

12/06/2011

Artist chews off her own arm for Art Basel!! (or does she really?)

The title of Jillian Mayer's video submission to Art Basel may be inspired by Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q., but her grotesque content certainly takes matters a step further. In H.I.L.M.D.A., a section from Love Trips: A Triptych on Love, Mayer chews off her own arms. Actually, she only physically c...

12/05/2011

Everyday Art - Haiku traffic signs http://marcelduchamp.net/news.php?id=707

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11/30/2011

"Maestro, see you in another 50 years." http://www.marcelduchamp.net/news.php?id=704

11/29/2011

Any Duchamp fans familiar with Xiamen Dada? We recommend you find out....: http://marcelduchamp.net/news.php?id=703

11/18/2011

Amazing exhibit of pieces from Rauschenberg's private collection at the Gagosian:

The legendary Texan multimedia painter, Robert Rauschenberg's work is currently on display at the Gagosian Gallery at 980 Madison Ave in Manhattan. For the exhibition, the Gagosian collaborated with the Rauschenberg Foundation to display pieces from Rauschenberg’s private collection featuring works...

11/15/2011

"N**e Up-Ending a Hairpiece!"

In a recent blog entry, visual poet Geoff Huth wrote about the different ways that people come to experience art--when they’re standing directly in front of a painting. Some of us might like to share every thought we have with our companions and devote long minutes to each and every piece on displa...

11/13/2011

Contrast: Hans Ulrich Orbst's "Posthastism" and Even Slower Poetry

There hasn't exactly been a shortage of art movements defined by manifestos that grapple with the role of "speed" in art creation or thought. Take, for example, the Even Slower Poetry manifesto published on a Blogspot in June, 2009. Here is a selection:

11/11/2011

We think this is VERY FUNNY Mr Duggan:

11/10/2011

if you still haven't read 2666 by Roberto Bolano.....

"The idea, of course, was Duchamp’s. --- All that exists, or remains, of Duchamp’s stay in Buenos Aires is a ready-made. Though of course his whole life was a readymade, which was his way of appeasing fate and at the same time sending out signals of distress. As Calvin Tomkins writes: As a weddi...

11/08/2011

Check Out: "Too close to Duchamp's Bicycle" by Les Liens Invisibles (2010)

What is Les Liens Invisibles? Apparently, it is an “imaginary” partnership between a pair of Italian artists, Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini, who focus on creating net art subversive media based art. They have been gaining notoriety an exhibition space in places like the Venice Biennale a...