Tag Archives: Marcel Duchamp
On the Misunderstood “Privilege of Art”
In the wake of Marcel Duchamp’s celebrated and oft-misunderstood debunking of the myth of the sacred artwork, is it still possible to ask what “Art” signifies in our contemporary cultural context? That is to say, is art necessary in a globalized and confusing world? Does art name an external object of perception (“objet d’art”) as […]
Beyond the Wall: Outsider Art Goes Inside
This past October, famed UK street artist Banksy spent a month in New York City, leaving behind 31 provocative works in public spaces scattered throughout the city’s five boroughs. Each new piece threw the press and public deeper into the kind of frenzy usually reserved for pop culture events like a new Harry Potter book […]
Objects of Desire: The Lost Art of Challenging Art
As a repository of Dadaist ideas, the brilliant show at Blain/Di Donna, Dada and Surrealist Objects, represents what constitutes artistic re-interpretation. It brings back into focus the bankruptcy of contemporary artistic initiatives as nothing more than shameless re-invention. The “objects” in this elegantly-mounted show represent imaginative artifacts created between 1920 and 1969 (save for the […]
