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hyperallergic: In the ’60s, photographers anxious about the art form’s legitimacy set out to distinguish fine art from documentary practices. Photographer Duane Michals has shattered these preconceptions about photography throughout his career. Profiled in Storyteller, a book by Linda Benedict-Jones, released by Carnegie Museum of Art to coincide with last year’s retrospective of the same…
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Nina Paley passes on Netflix DRM and thousands of dollars [2010]
mostlysignssomeportents: Nina Paley was approached by Netflix to offer her amazing animated feature Sita Sings the Blues on their streaming service. Sita retells the saga of Rama and incorporates some vintage jazz, to marvellous effect. In order to clear this old jazz music, Paley had to go through an enormous rigamarole, and this experience has…
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Can a hole be art? A district court in the German city of Mannheim decided it can’t, Die Welt reports. In 2006 the artist Nathalie Braun Barends created the site-specific installation HHole for Mannheim—a hole drilled through several stories of the museum. The institution, which is currently being expanded with a new building, has decided to…
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«This photograph of a drain pipe attached to a miter box documents one of the most famous examples of American Dada. The sculpture God, a readymade in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp’s upended urinal entitled Fountain, has traditionally been attributed to Schamberg, a talented photographer and painter who blended machine imagery and abstraction. Recent scholarship…
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Art historians and academics have pointed out that in 1917 Duchamp wrote to his sister, recounting how ‘one of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture’. Duchamp revealed that this model of urinal wasn’t even in production at the factory where he claimed to have…
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First Action: “The Letter”
whoisrmutt: “The Letter” (Smoking Gun) Starting April 11, 2015 Commemorating the anniversary of the letter, sent by Marcel Duchamp to his sister, April 11, 1917. Instructions Print or order from http://www.zazzle.com/whoisrmutt the R. Mutt sticker. (Allow 1 week for delivery.) Print copies of the letter http://whoisrmutt.com/theLetter.pdf front and back on natural fiber paper such as…
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mikerugnetta: arpeggia: Ad Reinhardt was an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. Most famous for his “black” or “ultimate” paintings, he claimed to be painting the “last paintings” that anyone can paint. [wikipaintings.org] Image source: afterimagegallery.com, revierpassagen.de, Le.Mat, Mark Notari ultimate morning