Around the House: Green theme at craft show Aug 10, 2008
"AltCraft," according to the press packet, is about utilizing "DIY practices and creative repurposing of materials." We're thinking ReadyMade. The show opens Friday night with a panel discussion on "The Politics of Craft," with a limited number of seats available only by RSVP. The $12 panel admission includes wine and snacks, and a VIP pass for the show on the weekend, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 15-16 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 17. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art's progress, to look back in wonder Jul 18, 2008
Rene Block's 1990 The Readymade Boomerang was a magnificent exhibition, which attempted to trace the influence of early modernism to the present day. The budget didn't quite stretch to match the vision, but Block's show proved to be incredibly influential on a generation of Australian artists. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Wee exhibit, big scandal Jun 23, 2008
a replica of Mercel Duchamp's original 'readymade' Bicycle Wheel ... It was the first of what he called his "readymades". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pegasus adds document management and KPI dashboards to Opera II Feb 7, 2008
The Executive Dashboard is a browser-based interface that can display up to nine separate data measures (from a readymade menu of 30 options) within a browser window. The system has been designed so that people running both FoxPro and SQL Server versions of Opera II will be able to set up measures that draw from the the underlying transactional data. (Accounting Web, UK)
Art Basel Miami Beach Dec 16, 2007
You could see sculptures by Franz West, Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, Marcel Duchamp (a readymade titled Bilboquet) and Lee Bontecou (a crop of small biomorphic sculptures at New York's Knoedler gallery). On the photography front, there was Rodney Graham's Three Musicians, being sold by Chicago dealer Donald Young. (Globe and Mail)
Craig-Martin, Who Taught Damien Hirst, Makes Comeback in Solo Show at 66 Dec 7, 2007
He seeks ``a very impersonal line'' to make his work ``as readymade and as manufactured as the object itself. . (Bloomberg -- UK)
Its Turner Prize time again Sep 29, 2007
This looks like another dumb readymade, a back-of-the-napkin idea from another spoilt contemporary artist but theres far more to it than that. Love it or loathe it, the work is a nodal point for a handful of intersecting trendy theories of contemporary art. (Financial Times)
Bits of Concorde nostalgia up for sale Sep 29, 2007
Indeed, parts of the Concorde collection, which has been on display in Toulouse since the beginning of September, evoke the aesthetic of Marcel Duchamp's "readymade" sculptures, which the avant-garde French artist composed from bicycle wheels, panes of glass and other found objects. The sale in Toulouse is the third to be dedicated to Concorde ephemera since the supersonic jet stopped flying in May 2003. (International Herald Tribune)
Making it a photo finish Sep 16, 2007
How to do it: Invest in simple wooden frames that come with built-in mats, or pair your frame with a readymade mat that matches the perimeter of your frame. The most classic look is a black or wood-tone frame with a crisp white mat. (Montana Standard, MT)
* Letter: Get rid of petrol vehicles now May 9, 2007
Cheap supplies of motors and lithium cells from China, and a large readymade domestic market would make EVs affordable for everyone. Two things are lacking: superstar designers who can produce the kind of eye-catching products that (for example) the French and Italians are famous for; and a government willing to defy big oil and big corporations. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
- Jonathan Jones May 1, 2007
Johns' Flag, the true source of every contemporary readymade, says everything you need to know about the story of art since 1950. To admire contemporary art is to admire America; anyone who believes differently is kidding themselves. (Guardian Unlimited)
- What is life like in Ikeatown? Apr 2, 2007
As Ikea's readymade homes hit the UK, Steve Rose travels to Sweden to sample life in a 'flat-pack' village. Monday April 2, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited)
Meredith Corporation Board Declares Dividend Jan 30, 2007
The Meredith Publishing Group features 26 subscription magazines -- including Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, More, Fitness, American Baby and ReadyMade -- and publishes over 200 special interest publications under approximately 80 titles. Meredith owns 14 television stations, including properties in top-25 markets Atlanta, Phoenix, and Portland. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Too many memories? Jan 26, 2007
It struck Libeskind, who won the competition to masterplan the rebuilding of Ground Zero, as a readymade monument. Libeskind won the battle among architects to redesign this vast site, but when it comes to the memorial, Lin has won the war. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bears against bombs Jan 16, 2007
Is State Britain a protest, a readymade, a simulation or an appropriation. It is all these things - an installation, an institutional critique, an example of relational aesthetics. (Guardian Unlimited)
Do Not Touch Nov 20, 2006
The next stop was a Duchamp readymade. Parsa s depiction was brief: It is an actual bicycle wheel with its forks still in, turned upside down and thrust into a white four-legged wooden stool. (New Yorker)
Magritte goes on show in a surreal Los Angeles setting Nov 18, 2006
Speaking of conceptual art, his work as an exhibition designer is not far from Duchamp's notion of an "assisted readymade," which involves tweaking a found, or readymade, object. Only in this case, it's the museum space itself. (International Herald Tribune)
* Jeff Koons:subversively normal Nov 16, 2006
Some critics interpreted his work as a critique of consumer-capitalism: he had returned the Duchamp-inspired readymade to its status as a product. For others, such as Benjamin Buchloh, Koons was "only pretending to engage in a critical annihilation of mass-cultural fetishization." In reality, he was acting out what Walter Benjamin had predicted for capitalist society: the cultural need to compensate for the lost aura of art and artist with "the phony spell" of the commodity and the star. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
- Gordon Burn meets Jeff Koons Nov 11, 2006
Some critics interpreted his work as a crit-ique of consumer-capitalism: he had returned the Duchamp-inspired readymade to its status as a product. For others, such as Benjamin Buchloh, Koons was "only pretending to engage in a critical annihilation of mass-cultural fetishisation". (Guardian Unlimited)
Found objects find new attention: Hirshhorn Gallery exhibit brings detritus to life Nov 9, 2006
The readymade, or found object is back, but this time it is much more colorful, and in some cases, much less meaningful. It's the art world's way of bringing back the legging. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
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- Brian Logan Sep 9, 2006
4' 33"What is it? Experimental composer John Cage's most famous work: slightly over four-and-a-half minutes of silence.Do say: A profound anti-musical meditation on the impossibility of silence. An audio counterpart to the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenberg, using silence to reflect ambient sound just as Rauschenberg's paintings change according to the environments in which they are hung.Don't say: Have you copyrighted this piece, John? I think I owe you money, because I performed it 104... (Guardian Unlimited)
Can you tell what it is yet? Aug 22, 2006
Everyone now "knows" Marcel Duchamp invented something called "the readymade" ... Picasso is a conceptual artist who thought with the body, and we urgently need to remember his alternative tradition of the readymade. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bike sculpture built for 300 Aug 13, 2006
Deconstructing the bicycle's basic structure has fascinated artists at least as far back as Marcel Duchamp, who made his first "readymade" in 1913 by fastening a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool painted white. "To set the wheel turning was very soothing, very comforting," the French artist once explained. (Toronto Star -- GTA)
In a world where the primeval past and gritty modernity live side by side, Indian artists attempt to illuminate both Jul 6, 2006
"Assisted Readymades/Alternative Solutions" (2003-04) consists of a triple-decker handcart made into a kind of rickshaw by the addition of a large tricycle ... Marcel Duchamp coined the term "assisted readymade" to name manufactured objects that, after slight modifications, he presented as works of art ... In the Western art setting, exempted from use, Mukhopadhyay's objects qualify as assisted readymades and ready-made allusions to Duchamp. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Creating art from simple objects Jun 1, 2006
For attractive deck and garden areas, ReadyMade book shows how to make a take-out chandelier from plastic bowls and cutlery ... If you can't find what you're looking for at Ikea and you're not interested in dropping a month's pay on boutique furniture, ReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything is for you ... Co-authored by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne, who in 2000 created ReadyMade, the magazine for people who like to make things, this anthology of essays and projects is organized by... (Toronto Star -- Life)
Stadium Arcadium May 21, 2006
Unlike the pop they produced last time, here there are more throwbacks to those pre-megastar years, such as the aggressively needling Readymade, the Fleetwood Mac-meets-Van Halen Torture Me and the slapbass-happy Charlie and Storm in a Teacup (possibly salves for bass player Flea, who felt so superfluous after the last album he considered quitting). In keeping with its predecessor, Stadium Arcadium shows a marked preference for craft over inspiration (as in the ponderous Slow Cheetah and Strip... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Cool babies, hip moms and pops May 15, 2006
" Still, she concedes that "it's hard, trying to maintain some semblance of yourself after having kids, with all the readymade accessories out there. You don't want to buy into that whole industry and wear what other moms are wearing and push what other moms are pushing. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Martha's Got a Brand New Mag Apr 25, 2006
Its closest rival is ReadyMade, the funky bimonthly magazine that has turned how-to into high art ... With that kind of passion and expertise, Blueprint might give magazines like ReadyMade reason to redecorate. (BusinessWeek)
Now Granny has a brand-new groove Apr 8, 2006
The success of Martha Stewart and do-it-yourself magazines such as ReadyMade from San Francisco along with the continued popularity of flea market and EBay shopping indicate a move away from stark modernism to handmade individualism, she adds. "There has been a resurgence in personalized crafts. People are crocheting and joining knitting circles where they can make cozies for their iPods.". (Los Angeles Times)
Young names to shine at spring art auction Feb 26, 2006
His most promising work is a large five panel work, Oil on canvas, 120 by 72", estimated at 35 lakhs to 40 lakhs On display will also be works by Subodh Gupta, who has in the past wooed the west with his surreal /pop iconographic style. It has sentimental references to an innocent village life or gleaming, barely concealed aspirations of upward mobility.Title: Just for your informationArtist: Barun ChowdhuryGupta does not judge but simply depicts the imperfect and everyday world as he sees it.... (Hindustan Times)
Of Crafts and Causes Feb 23, 2006
At many a chain bookstore, ReadyMade magazine's new book, , isn't tucked away in the "Crafts" section, but stacked four high on the front display table ... ReadyMade magazine, which started publishing in 2001, released its eponymous resource book in December, just in time for the deluge of holiday shoppers simultaneously over-consumed and broke ... " Phew! For a second there it sounded as if we should put down our crafts and organize around that.Glossy, modernist ReadyMade sits on the design end... (AlterNet.org)
Subversion with a smile (Thomas Singer) Feb 18, 2006
The National Gallery of Art's "Dada" show (opening tomorrow and running through May 14) presents works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, collage and readymades drawn from the dada centers of Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York and Paris ... His fame -- or infamy -- only grew larger with his further provocations: "Fountain," the men's urinal he purchased at a hardware store and unsuccessfully tried to show as a readymade sculpture at the 1917 exhibition of the New York Society of... (Washington Times)
Counterpoint: The silence of liberal Muslims Feb 12, 2006
Sunday, February 12, 2006. The silence of liberal Muslims. (Hindustan Times, India)
