Marcel Duchamp

"Dennis Hopper Double Standard" opened Sunday at the Geffen Contemporary, the Museum of Contemporary Art's Little Tokyo warehouse. A sense of melancholy hangs over the late Hollywood maverick's photographs, paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works....

It was a year ago, late on a June gloom Venice afternoon, when I last sat down with Dennis Hopper. We had been working for more than 18 months on a publication of his photographs for Taschen Books. It was our last meeting before the book went to print,...

Ever since Marcel Duchamp put a urinal on a pedestal and signed it with a pseudonym in 1917, artists have been poking fun at the pretensions of the art world. But within the hallowed halls of museums and galleries, you’re......

Memory rather than vision seems to be the animating engine for Katie Herzog's paintings. The past shapes their present. Five recent, very disparate works are at Actual Size Gallery. One playful picture shows a childhood playroom. Another is composed of......

The subset of bicycle-themed works in classical music is small. We have nothing as artistically central as Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made of a bicycle wheel. More typical of music might be an obscure 19th century British composer Stanislaus Elliot’s “...

The art world takes itself very seriously. Make that very, very seriously. What little laughter can be heard between the white walls of the museum typically comes at the expense of art by people who don't understand it. Far rarer are chuckles that erupt...

If you like paint, you'll like "Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain," the artist's 40-year retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. It's awash in the stuff. Thick, brightly colored paint oozes like mortar from...

In 1913, the Art Institute did something astonishing. It opened its hallowed halls to an exhibition so radical that it would forever alter the course of art-making in the United States. The event was the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better...

Beauty Is Embarrassing Monday, Jan. 21, 10 p.m., on PBS's Independent Lens, check local listings   Wayne White says "fuck" a lot. He paints the word "fuck" a lot, too. White, the subject of the excellent and entertaining documentary Beauty is...

The Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America Through July 14, Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven, (203) 432-0600, artgallery.yale.edu   Katherine Dreier (1877-1952), who lived in West Redding and Milford, and among whose close...

Paris’ Centre Pompidou, one of the world’s leading contemporary and modern artmuseums, has for the first time joined forces with a public artmuseum in China. The exhibition “Electric Fields: Surrealism and Beyond — La...

At the Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park, the title of the exhibition "Lost (in L.A.)" pretty much describes how I felt when looking at its many sculptures, installations, videos and a few paintings. Thematic art exhibitions are sometimes...