Marcel Duchamp

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Hot performances brighten the Coens' clever but feckless 'Burn After Reading' ** 1/2 B urn After Reading , Ethan and Joel Coen's return to way-out comedy after the rewarding rigors of No Country for Old Men , involves...

Trash or treasure: The designer objects made of rubbish

The phrase "green is the new black" is thrown around with great enthusiasm but, like any trend, will this 21st-century impulse towards green living soon start to look and sound dreary and outdated? There is an army of...

Historical turn at Sydney biennale

The opening of the 16th Biennale of Sydney in June arrived on the heels of a national controversy in Australia, after police had removed works from an exhibition of renowned photographer Bill Henson in late May. Police...

George Nelson's bold look went beyond future schlock

Aug 31, 2008

George Nelson's bold look went beyond future schlock : It was praised by Business Week for a "sense of daring in design," and by Esquire for "a new liberality in the use of space." "Seeing these designs, one wonders why...

Stockholm art gallery guide: August 29 - September 5

Online: http://www.thelocal.se/14014/ Stockholm art gallery guide from Urban Outfitters is playing host to an exhibition of the work of Swedish fashion genius Lovisa Burfitt. In an installation prepared in conjunction...

Painter to Poet: Dorothea Tanning

American artist Dorothea Tanning celebrates her 98th birthday today, so in her honor and at the request of reader Peter, we’ll take a look at her life and artwork, particularly her 1942 self-portrait, “The Birthday.” 1....

Installation, digital art join mainstream

Indian art buyers and aficionados are developing an interest in solid three-dimensional art. The exhibits and the sales trend at the just concluded India Art Summit 2008 were proof that installation art and sculptures...

Locating Propriety in the Inappropriate

There is something appropriate in finding Zach Feuer Gallery open for business in mid-August with a Phoebe Washburn installation, when the rest of Chelsea is a ghost town. Seeing this Dadaistic riff on productivity in a gallery...

"Yoko Ono ~ Between the Sky & My Head" Exhibition Featured at Kunsthalle Bielefeld

BIELEFELD, GERMANY -Yoko Ono, born in 1933 in Tokyo, is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art. In 1952, she became one of the first women in Japan to study philosophy. In 1953 she took composition courses at Sarah Lawrence...

Video artists take the temperature of our region at Seattle Art Museum

By REGINA HACKETT P-I ART CRITIC Is the projector on the blink? Lewis, who will represent Canada in the 2009 Venice Biennale, is one of 17 artists in "Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest" at the Seattle Art Museum....