Tag: Duchamp

  • A MoMA Retrospective Proves Duchamp Was More Sincere Than He Seems

    The first rooms of MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp retrospective almost dare the visitor to find in his early paintings some hint of the artist’s future travesty of those mediums. The picture with which the show opens—a placid scene of the artist’s two older brothers, Gaston (Jacques Villon) and Raymond, engrossed in a game of chess—telegraphs Duchamp’s read more

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  • Gagosian to Open New Upper East Side Gallery with a Duchamp Show, a Rarity in a Commercial Setting

    Having been kicked out of its longtime home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Gagosian is starting over in the neighborhood with a new space on the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the same building where it formerly had a multilevel gallery. Because Gagosian is such a force within the art industry, the inauguration of read more

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