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...worked closely with the Pope said that loosening rules on the Latin rite has been a long-time personal goal of Ratzinger, who had led what turned out to be failed negotiations in the early 1980s to bring back into the fold the followers of the breakaway French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who have defied the reforms of the Second Vatican Council...
...concealment, distortion and deception techniques begin. But it was art, not military science, that led the way. "Armies realized they could put artists' knowledge of form, perspective and color to use," says James Taylor, historian at the Imperial War Museum. So the dislocations of Cubism (Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp served as camoufleurs) were a huge influence, as were the visual disruptions of Vorticism in the Dazzle patterns applied to Allied ships during World War I. Dazzle made it hard for the enemy to get a fix - a trait that could also help explain the rebellious appeal of camouflage patterns...
...Pasternack is hopeful for the future of art and garbage, citing the past success of Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 work Fountain, which was “essentially a toilet bowl that he found in the garbage. A mass-produced urinal. He put his name on it and it went into a museum...he questioned ‘what exactly...
...teasing out the deep connections that run through seemingly disparate artistic ideologies.MULTIPLE MADNESSIn the exhibition, both Beuys and the Fluxus artists made use of the “multiple,” a term referring to a type of art that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades.”While Duchamp used industrially produced objects (i.e. a urinal) to break down the boundaries between “art” and ordinary commodities, Fluxus artists took Duchamp’s idea of the “readymade?...
WHAT'S THE CRAZIEST THING IN YOUR COLLECTION? Are you ready for this? It's called the Airborne Snotty vase. It's by Marcel Wanders. He used a special camera to photograph a sneeze. So the vase is a sneeze. When I first saw it, I thought it was the weirdest, creepiest thing...