‘Finding the right move’: Marcel Duchamp and his passion for chess
As we prepare to auction a pipe Duchamp presented to a close friend and chess opponent, Jack Castle looks at his love affair with a game that he believed shared values with art
On 10 March 1944 two men — both refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe —sat down for a game of chess. One was Marcel Duchamp, painter of Nude Descending a Staircase no. 2 (1912) and the Dada pioneer, the other was George Koltanowski, a Belgian-born chess master and seasoned tournament player. [Read more …]
The largely unseen masterworks of Alexander Calder created during his 1955 voyage to India — offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 10 May at Christie’s New York
In 1954, Alexander Calder received a letter from Gira Sarabhai, beginning an extraordinary journey and a lifelong friendship. Her letter offered the artist an opportunity to become part of the thriving creative hub that, thanks to the patronage and vision of the Sarabhai family, was changing the cultural landscape of Ahmedabad, in western India, during the 1950s. [Read more…]
This is an incredible resource for those who work on 60’s but no only. There is a jewel hidden behind this name: it is not only a Warhol database, but also a really complete resource for me who is more interested by Abstract Expressionism, under this complicated URL : http://www.warholstars.org/abstractexpressionism/abstractexpressionism.html. Everything is organized by years (from 1800-1899 to 1980+), by artist names, by organiztions / exhibitions, etc.
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Voici une ressource incroyable pour ceux qui travaillent entre autre sur les années 60. Et il y a un bijou caché derrière ce site : ce n’est pas seuelement une base de données exhaustive sur Warhol et le microcosme qui gravite autour de lui, mais aussi une ressource d’une richesse incroyable pour moi qui suis plus interessée par l’Expressionnisme Abstrait, sous l’URL compliquée http://www.warholstars.org/abstractexpressionism/abstractexpressionism.html. Tout y est hyper-organisé par années (depuis 1800-1899 à 1980 et plus), par noms d’artistes, par organisations et expositions, etc.
Jetez-y un œil et n’hésitez pas à laisser un commentaire à Gary, il le mérite vraiment !
Texte de référence « L’art en train de se faire » : entretien avec Didier Schulmann, conservateur au Musée national d’art moderne,
et Agnès de Bretagne, bibliothécaire, responsable des périodiques à la Bibliothèque Kandinsky