Holiday sales events at warehouses, outlets Oct 12, 2009
Gather the makings for your own creations, or simplify your life and buy a readymade arrangement ... Highlights: Framed art prints priced at $9 to $159; prints and posters at $1 to $18; framed beveled mirrors at $59 to $99; and readymade frames at $5 to $15. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Photo Release -- World Renowned Pop Artist Nelson De La Nuez Partners With Fredrix(R) Print Canvas to Promote Archival Quality Fine Art Canvas Line Sep 18, 2009
Fredrix(R) Print Canvas is based in Lawrenceville, GA and is owned by Tara Materials, Inc. which also manufactures Fredrix(R) Artist Canvas, along with a full line of readymade frames sold as Tara(R) Picture Frames and Tara(R) Fine Frames. Contact. (Primezone Releases)
* Take a closer look Sep 9, 2009
Some of the sculptures in The Great Form Without Shape hark back X both formally and thematically X to Tsais 2006 exhibit Still Life, which was composed of a series of sculptures made from readymade and natural objects that wouldnt look out of place in an IKEA catalogue. One featured a twig placed over a ball made from iron wire set atop a wooden pedestal; another consisted of long bamboo poles tightly arranged in and sticking out of a. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
* Truth to power Aug 16, 2009
Johns, who treated the American flag as a readymade and was more concerned with giving it a painterly surface, similarly witnessed an era of national becoming ... His personal ideas of bringing together found objects, or readymades, and Chinese antiques, however, had not yet come into its own. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Tarting up for fashion week Aug 5, 2009
Readymade, simple, wearable. You see Tart is a label that is somewhat overlooked by those who love the intrigue of the conceptual and the drama of the ball gown. (iAfrica.com)
Andrea K. Scott: Song Dong’s “Waste Not,” at MOMA. Aug 3, 2009
Song persuaded his mother to help him order the chaos into this ramshackle readymade a humble monument to deprivation, attachment, evanescence, and loss. Duchamp s bicycle wheel (visit it on the museum s fifth floor) would surely approve. (New Yorker)
Who Needs a Resort? Swim in a Dumpster Jul 22, 2009
An article about the trend in the design magazine ReadyMade sparked a flurry of Internet commentary. A recent Dumpster pool party in a rented lot along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal attracted artists and filmmakers, and made the front page of The Arts section of the New York Times. (ABC News -- Business)
Exhibit is a fun way to take in the trash Jul 9, 2009
The idea came into vogue in the early 20th century, when such artists as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started recycling newspapers and the like in collages and Marcel Duchamp dubbed a urinal Fountain and called it readymade art. It has never really gone out of style, and in recent years heightened focus on the environment has given it a particular cachet. (Boston Globe)
Store owners create a custom lifestyle Jul 2, 2009
Until January, he served as the projects editor at ReadyMade magazine, which has a strong DIY focus ... The wall behind their sectional, set up as a rotating art gallery, was featured in ReadyMade ... Wold, a Bay Area furniture designer who specializes in reclaimed and reused materials, constructed it for a ReadyMade article. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Read Indepth Article Jun 28, 2009
In a sense the video is a readymade self. The snippets are twisted and taken out of their original context to tell Peter Harriss story. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009, Ron Silliman, Sillimans Blog Jun 4, 2009
In this sense, pure conceptualisms readymade properties capitulate to and mirror the easy consumption/generation of text and the devaluation of reading in the larger culture ... The readymade emphasizes the subject nature of aesthetics by reducing art to pure object ... The readymade is thus the most aestheticized object, existing only as art. (Harper's Magazine)
