Category Archive: Art & Artists
04/01
April Uprising, 1973
On April 1, price 1973, Yoko Ono and John Lennon held a press conference to tell the world about their imaginary place, a conceptual country called Nutopia, a place where the only law was the cosmic law. In those days…
03/29
Missing Mitsou
A friend reminded me this morning of one of my favorite treasures, the book Mitsou, by the painter Balthus. When Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, aka Balthus, was 11 he started his first major artwork, a series of 40 pen-and-ink…
03/24
Duchamp’s legendary languor
I’ve been deeply impressed by an academic article I recently stumbled across all about the legendary laziness of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). His readymades—found-object sculptures like the infamous urinal “Fountain”—hint at this. Still, Duchamp managed to find the patrons to support…
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