| Centuries Before Duchamp, Spanish King Elevated Chess Strategy to Occult Art |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-02-11
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The deep affinity between chess and Marcel Duchamp is well known. It's not only that picture of him playing with a nude Eve Babitz, or the striking, abstract set he designed with his friend Man Ray, or even his official decision to abandon art production for a period of 20 years whilst cultivati
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| How to Buy a Lawrence Weiner |
By Maria Goldverg
posted: 07-01-11
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If Hannah Weiner wrote a poetics that bore witness to a her schizophrenic environment, a spectacle of linguistic topologies, Lawrence Weiner—member of the Postminimalist Conceptualism movement from the 1960s with others including artists Robert Barry and Sol LeWitt—actively constructs hi
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| An Epitaph for Immortality: Dali on Potsdamer Platz |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 06-28-11
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After crumpling up that poster of The Persistence of Memory for post-college interior redecoration, the specter of an anti-Salvador Dali backlash presents itself. It's all too easy to decide that the wax-mustachioed Spanish showman was a commercial, cliched hype-machine and somehow your adolesce
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| Virtual Duchamp and The Paradox of Art Spaces |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 06-26-11
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Earlier this month I wrote about the journalist Yoav Sivan, who submitted a Duchampesque art concept to the Columbia Arts Initiative exhibition at Lincoln Center: calling his work "The Restroom of King Francis," he proposed to build a replica of the Louvre hall that contains the Mona Lis
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