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...Cunningham, the dancer-choreographer, were among the innovators living there. If it can be said that advanced art in America through the '50s and early '60s had one single native guru, that man was Cage: at once the most avant-garde and the most transparent of composers, the Marcel Duchamp of music, the man who erected combinations of silence and random sound into an aesthetic strategy in order to give art the inclusive density of life. It was Cage's example that prompted Rauschenberg to formulate his much-quoted remark that "painting relates to both art and life...
Fogg Art Museum: The Fogg just opened a Jacques Villon retrospective his week), which one could almost subtitle "The Adventures of Marcel Duchamp's Smarter Brother." Whatever their relative merits, Villon was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. He was not a revolutionary like his brother, but continued to refine his chosen visual style--Cubism--throughout a long career. His color sense and sophistication produced work that Issboth elegang and exciting. See the show for a study break, if nothing else. Boston City Hall, Government Center, Boston: An Arab celebration of costumes, artifacts, photographs, mosque designs, Islamic prints...
...modern art. The plain metal foot borne upward on its ornate, gilded and enameled pedestal Is surrealist in its incongruity. Our uncertainty about its contents-not only whether Mary Magdalene's foot is in it, but also whether it contains a real foot of any kind-recalls Marcel Duchamp's A Bruit Secret, two metal plates sandwiching a ball of twine inside which a small "thing," forever unidentified, rattles when shaken...
Like Marcel Duchamp, Villon and the futurists, Kupka seized the threat by the horns, using photographs to revise his practice as a painter. In a figure painting entitled Planes by Colors, Large Nude, 1909-10, Kupka had taken the un inhibited color of Fauvism and given it a dense, architectural solidity (it seems right that the model's pose, monumental as it is, should mimic that of Michel angelo's Leda). The problem was now to set those planes in motion; for that, Kupka resorted to one of the great novelties of the time, the high-speed sequential...
...known to have influenced Picasso's own sculpture, and Nadelman's place among the progenitors of Cubism is assured. Exhibition after exhibition of his work sold out, and he moved to New York on the eve of World War I. In the '20s Nadelman and Marcel Duchamp were the male sex symbols of transatlantic culture...