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...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...
...Appellation Wine & Spirits have started devoting themselves solely to organic and biodynamic offerings, and sommeliers at restaurants across the country are creating wine lists that exclusively feature these ecologically sustainable wines. More important, some of the world's greatest vintners have signed on to the biodynamic craze, including Domaine Marcel Deiss of Alsace and Italy's Emidio Pepe. Alain Dugas, winemaker at France's Chteau La Nerthe--where wine has been produced almost continuously since 1560--began experimenting with biodynamics on 20 of its Chteauneuf-du-Pape acres 10 years ago. Why the sudden urge to tinker with...
...rest of us, perhaps it's enough to drop the odd smart reference to June 16, 1904 (that's Bloomsday for Joyce fans, or, dear nonreaders, the day Ulysses takes place), the evocative aroma of madeleines (nostalgia muffins to novelist Marcel Proust), or George Eliot (remember, she was a woman). Bayard argues that the real secret to knowledge, cultivation and passionate reading lies in avoiding the traditional, linear approach to books. "Books aren't so much made to be read, as they are to be lived with," he says. Hey, doesn't that remind you of something Franz Kafka once...
...Antique Perhaps pinching ideas from grandma's parlor, or else the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dutch master Marcel Wanders delivers a witty take on chintz. His New Antique collection for Capellini is cool yet cozy - some combination. "We can no longer fall in total awe at a tube being bent," he declares, explaining his elegantly playful antimodernism. www.capcon.it...