About
Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville-Crevon, France in 1887, and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France in 1968. Public collections include Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Menil Collection, Houston; Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Major retrospective exhibitions include Pasadena Museum of California Art (1963); Tate, London (1966); Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1977); and Palazzo Grassi, Venice (1993).
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Still Life, Still
Harry Thorne reflects on Brian O’Doherty’s recording of Marcel Duchamp’s heart.
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Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2023
The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.
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Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2022
The Fall 2022 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Jordan Wolfson’s House with Face (2017) on its cover.
Isabelle Waldberg
Jacquelynn Baas profiles Isabelle Waldberg, writing on the sculptor’s many friendships and the influence of her singular creations.
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Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2020
The Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #412 (2003) on its cover.
Museum Exhibitions
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Gertrude Stein et Pablo Picasso
September 13, 2023–January 28, 2024
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
museeduluxembourg.fr
This exhibition explores the friendship between Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein, two icons of the twentieth century. Both moved to Paris in the early 1900s, and their status as foreigners affected their roles in the city’s bohemian community as well as their artistic freedom. Examining their closeness and inventiveness, the exhibition considers a century of art, poetry, music, and theater through key figures such as Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and others.
Pablo Picasso, Femme aux mains jointes (étude pour Les Demoiselles d’Avignon), 1907, Musée national Picasso–Paris © Succession Picasso 2023. Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso–Paris)/Mathieu Rabeau
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The Dream of the Museum
November 11, 2021–April 23, 2023
M+, Hong Kong
www.mplus.org.hk
The Dream of the Museum examines the concept of found objects to show how artists use cultures as source material to update tradition. Beginning with four pioneers of contemporary art—Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Nam June Paik—the exhibition brings together work by twenty-seven artists from across geographies and generations, including Hao Liang and Andy Warhol, who explore chance and found objects in their work.
Hao Liang, Eight Views of Xiaoxiang—Dazzle, 2015 © Hao Liang. Photo: courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
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Apariencia desnuda
El deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun
May 19–September 29, 2019
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
www.fundacionjumex.org
Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, this exhibition, whose title translates to Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, explores the work of both Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons.
Jeff Koons, Grotto, 2000 © Jeff Koons
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Action<–>Reaction
100 Years of Kinetic Art
September 22, 2018–January 20, 2019
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
www.kunsthal.nl
Action<–>Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art covers a wide range of kinetic art and offers visitors an opportunity to experience work that appeals to all of the senses. The exhibition is a revival of the successful 2013 Paris exhibition Dynamo. Work by Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and Carsten Höller is included.
Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1963 © 2018 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York