Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea. In recent years, New York¹s midtown gallery scene has found itself fighting for attention with its younger, hipper West 20s sibling. The epicenter of the art world two decades ago, the radius around 57th street is still the home to nearly 70 art galleries. Several of these are headquartered in the Read More
The painter Don Joint is in love—in love, that is, with marble. Mr. Joint’s recent efforts in oil, on display at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, are the result of a chance encounter with a still-life painted on marble by the 18th-century Dutch artist Gerard van Spaendonck. Attracted to the tactile qualities of white marble—its Read More
The painter Don Joint is in love—in love, that is, with marble. Mr. Joint’s recent efforts in oil, on display at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, are the result of a chance encounter with a still-life painted on marble by the 18th-century Dutch artist Gerard van Spaendonck. Attracted to the tactile qualities of white marble—its Read More
“Marcel Duchamp,” writes Francis M. Naumann, “professed an aversion to any form of artistic repetition.” Like so many other of the arch utterances one encounters in Mr. Naumann’s latest opus on the artist, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Henry N. Abrams, $70), this deadpan reference is itself Read More
Arturo Schwarz is a 75-year-old Egyptian-born poet, anarchist and former Trotskyist who has resided in Milan since the 1940′s. In addition to numerous works on alchemy and cabala, he is also the author of The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp , a two-volume catalogue raisonée that was originally published in 1967 and reissued in an Read More
