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Marcel Duchamp

The Best Art Pranks Ever

Posted 04.02.2012 | Arts

Ever since Marcel Duchamp hung a toilet bowl in a museum gallery, the overlap between artists and pranksters cannot be denied. Whether done by art...

10 Alter-Egos Of Famous Artists

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.27.2012 | Arts

Attention and behold: Marcel Duchamp... as a lady! Or, not exactly. This is more than just a giddy Surrealist in a pretty hat and a little rouge. This...

EVA & ADELE On Their Lifelong Collaboration

Posted 02.21.2012 | Arts

You've probably seen them at a gallery at some point, but then again, this Austro-German duo is arguably its own moving museum. Meet the living works ...

PHOTOS: Outrageous Art: A Primer

Posted 12.30.2011 | Arts

With so much argument over Marni Kotak the woman who gave birth in an art gallery last week, it seemed only right to put things in perspective with so...

Ingenue Interview -- Chloe: Chasser Croiser/The Surreal and Its Echo

Nicole Garton | Posted 12.13.2011 | Arts
Nicole Garton

ChloƩ's style, poised between genres and aesthetics, reflects a unique eclecticism which has led her to become one of the most sought-after leaders of the contemporary electronic scene.

PHOTO: Guess The Artist!

Posted 12.12.2011 | Arts

Who painted this lady sitting in the bathtub? Was it an Impressionist piece, or simply an impression of one? The answer may surprise you. Vote now...

Own Duchamp Or Abramovic's Pad... For A Hefty Price

artinfo.com | Posted 12.04.2011 | Arts

Looking to buy? The homes of two bona-fide art celebrities are currently on the market, according to Curbed. First, the minimalist SoHo pad of perform...

Rebels in Paradise by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Jane Chafin | Posted 10.02.2011 | Arts
Jane Chafin

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp's recently released Rebels in Paradise: the Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s introduces all the major players of the 60s Los Angeles art scene in straight-forward prose.

Review of Rebels in Paradise

Michael Roth | Posted 10.01.2011 | Books
Michael Roth

Rebels In Paradise has some interesting things to say about the development of a distinctive Los Angeles gallery world, with its connections to the entertainment industry and the burgeoning museum culture.

WATCH: Photographer Bettina Rheims Channels The Surrealists

Michael Kurcfeld | Posted 07.24.2011 | Arts
Michael Kurcfeld

Surrealism is eternal. The quaintly comical provocations of the original Surrealist gang of the 1920s have been so absorbed into high and low culture...

10 Famous Destroyed Works Of Art

businessinsider.com | ArtDaily | Posted 07.18.2011 | Arts

The most impressive works of art often took months or even years to complete. Artists pour their knowledge, creativity and emotions into their proj...

Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat

David Galenson | Posted 06.04.2011 | Arts
David Galenson

The Sound of Sleat will delight anyone interested in the inner lives of artists who consider their work, and their lives, as a quest to create images as beautiful as those they see in nature.

Jerry Saltz On 'Unpainted Paintings'

New York Magazine Art Review | Jerry Saltz | Posted 05.28.2011 | Arts

The history of modernism reads like an aesthetic Book of the Dead. At the first glimmering of photography, painter Paul Delaroche fretted, "From today...

Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 05.28.2011 | Green
Mitchell J. Rabin

Despite common assumptions and practices that have permeated our psyches for some time now, the Earth, as our Native peoples have always said, cannot be owned.

The Reluctant Gallerists

Dorothy Spears | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Dorothy Spears

If the art dealers Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan were to impart one essential bit of wisdom to aspiring gallerists, it would probably be this: ...

Stranger Than Fiction: The Fantastic Worlds of Marcel Dzama

David Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
David Coggins

Marcel Dzama is the most renowned draftsman of his generation. But that distinction is not enough: he also makes sculptures and dioramas, directs mus...

Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Barbara Probst Solomon

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

A Nonsense Holiday: Today Begins International Dadaism Month

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Today marks the beginning of one of the weirdest holidays you'll ever hear of: International Dadaism Month. The declaration was made on December 27,...

Public Art or, How the Internet Is Rocking the Art World

Donna Fish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Donna Fish

You know how the Internet has revolutionized the music world? How YouTube has plucked individuals out of obscurity and made them household names? Now it is the art world's turn.

Liverpool Biennial Director Lewis Biggs on Why Conceptualism Is Out and Materiality Is In

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Marina Cashdan

In 2008, the city of Liverpool was named Europe's Capital of Culture. Lewis Biggs can take a lot of credit for that achievement.

On the Culture Front: Arcade Fire, The Original Copy, The Black Keys and A Little Night Music

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Chris Kompanek

Both Arcade Fire and The Black Keys sound as good, or better, live, so I try to catch them when they come into town.

Saluting the Met's Gay Gala!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Michael Henry Adams

Few places are as influential as art museums. Filled with revered treasures, they help to define for us notions of beauty and significance that can transform our lives.

Art Versus Entertainment: The Gap is Essential

Bill Lasarow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Bill Lasarow

The encounter between artist and audience is far more ambiguous and problematic in the art world than in the entertainment industry in spite of about a half century of critical and art world exertions to that distinction.

Chicago's Big Shoulders Get an Eyeball to Match

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Victoria Lautman

On July 7, when Chicago-based artist Tony Tasset unveils his two public commissions on State Street for the Chicago Loop Alliance, viewers will be anything but neutral.

UNCOLLECTIBLE ART: Top Ten Challenging Contemporary Works

artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

In the second part of a two-part series, ARTINFO takes a brief look at five artists whose work presents particularly complicated logistical challenges...