Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic paintings (some specifically for the boudoir) now sit in major art museums around the world, a reminder [...]
Posted in tags a-z | Also tagged andy warhol, ang lee, chris golas, christopher davison, erotic art, gabriel martinez, louise bourgeois, marilyn minter, movies, pete checcia, r. crumb, rubens, tony ward |
Explicit views of women’s pudenda have never been in short supply in New York City but one found them on 42nd St. (before Disney arrived), not in established art galleries. Inspired by Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, Francis Naumann began collecting work for an exhibition and when it grew too large, enlisted David Nolan to join [...]
Posted in national | Also tagged allyson mitchell, anna c. chave, beatrice wood, beth b., carol cole, carolee schneeman, cathy de monchaux, chuck close, david nolan gallery, étant donnés, eve ensler, faith wilding, francis naumann gallery, gustave courbet, james siena, jay de feo, judy bamber, judy chicago, mel kendrick, mira schor, nancy grossman, peter saul, sarah davis, the origin of the world, v-day, vagina monologues |
Duchamp studies are a thriving industry in academe and his work continues to have a major influence on artists, so it was no surprise that the first annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), devoted to Duchamp’s final work, would attract a full house. The enthusiasm was such that by [...]
Posted in talks | Also tagged anne d'harnoncourt, david hopkins, francis naumann, jeff koons, jeff wall, mark kostabi, mary reynolds, michael taylor, peter matisse, philadelphia museum of art, ray johnson |
By libby | September 3, 2009
Marcel Duchamp’s final masterpiece Étant Donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art historical conundrum, inviting speculation, adoration, revulsion and religious pilgrimages, sometimes all of these reactions at once. The peephole installation, which permanently resides in the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a reclining nude, legs splayed for a nearly full-Monty view, the figure [...]
Exhibitions devoted to a single work of 20th century art are extremely rare, and Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), on view through November 29, 2009 is exemplary.
Marcel Duchamp, joker that he was, would certainly be amused at the thought that he’s the subject of an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, of all places. And a lively and fascinating exhibition it is! At least one federal institution is taking a liberal attitude to immigration, albeit legal, as Duchamp became a [...]
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Alexander Calder Necklace (1930), brass wire, ceramic and cord loop, 15 3/4 in., photo © Maria Robledo, courtesy of Calder Foundation, N.Y. Calder made this for his mother as a 64th birthday present and wrote her that he’d found the fragments of ancient pottery along the parapets of the citadel in Calvi, Corsica. The Philadelphia [...]
Rachel Perry Welty Let there be Cuties (2008) fruit stickers and archival adhesive on paper, 11″ x 11″, courtesy Gallery JoeOld City is full of interesting work at the moment. Libby’s already covered the array of artists at Gallery Joe and I second her enthusiasm although she only gave brief mention to Rachel Perry Welty’s [...]
Olafur Eliasson 360̊ room for all colours (2002) stainless steel, projection foil, fluorescent lights, wood and copntrol unit, private collection courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, all photographs courtesy MoMA, © Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson’s art is unapologetically built of smoke and mirrors. If you love the part of The Wizard of Oz where the [...]
The Surrealists staged some of the most outrageous and imaginative art exhibitions of the Twentieth Century: in 1938 Marcel Duchamp hung the ceiling of the International Surrealist Exposition with coal sacks and one gallery, strewn with leaves and moss, contained a pond; for the opening the guests were handed flashlights to illuminate the artworks hung [...]
