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Interview with a Cat (Transcript)

by Marcel Broodthaers
Posted 3/29/11

Recorded at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, Düsseldorf, 1970 Marcel Broodthaers: Is that one a good painting?…Does it correspond to what you expect from that very recent transformation which goes from Conceptual Art to this new version of a kind of figuration, as one might say? Cat: Miaow. MB: Do you think so? Cat: Miiaaw..mm..miauw..miauw. MB: And yet this colour is very clearly redolent of the painting that was being done in the period of abstract art, isn’t it? Cat: Miaaw..miaaw..miiaw..miaw. MB: Are you sure it’s no... [more]

Play Van Abbe

by Andrea Alessi
Ulay / Abramovic, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Sarah Charlesworth, Thierry De Cordier, Robert Delaunay, Braco Dimitrijevic, Barry Flanagan, Hamish Fulton, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Holzer, ANSELM KIEFER, Surasi Kusolwong, Richard Long, Christina Lucas, Klaus Mettig, Piet Mondriaan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Marko Peljhan, Pablo Picasso, Oliver Ressler, David Robilliard, Martha Rosler, Katharina Sieverding, Gerrit van Bakel, Erwin van Doorn, Erwin van Doorn & Inge Nabuurs, Jan Vercruysse, Andy Warhol, Yang Zhenzhong at Van Abbemuseum February 26th, 2011 - August 20th, 2011
Posted 3/7/11

Something unusual is happening to visitors’ attentions in the Van Abbemuseum’s fourth and final installment of Play Van Abbe, an 18-month exhibition program considering artists and exhibition makers as diverse “players” within the museum. The current exhibition adds further players to the roster, putting the museum-going behaviors of viewers up for scrutiny. There’s no shortage of art that relies on or even exploits the viewer, but here it’s the exhibition using its visitors. The artw... [more]

The Salty Atmosphere of Moby Dick

by Andy Ritchie
Kenneth Anger, Matthew Benedict, Mark Bradford, Marcel Broodthaers, Angela Bulloch, Tom Burr, Tacita Dean, Marcel Dzama, Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, John Gutmann, Susan Hiller, Evan Holloway, Peter Hutton, Colter Jacobsen, BRIAN JUNGEN, Buster Keaton, Rockwell Kent, Mateo Lopez, Jorge Macchi, Kris Martin, Henrik Olesen, Paulina Olowska, Damián Ortega, Jean Painlevé, Kirsten Pieroth, Adrián Villar Rojas, Richard Serra, Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Orson Welles at CCA Wattis Institute September 22nd, 2009 - December 12th, 2009
Posted 10/12/09

With Moby-Dick, the Wattis presents the second of three shows rousting the spirits of great American literature. Although painted like a Nautica bedroom set with navy walls and white text, each room conjures the salty atmosphere of a heaving ship with alternately droning and ranting snippets from Orson Welles's recitation of Moby Dick. These elements (whale, walls, and Welles) attempt to interlace work from thirty-three international artists—no small feat. Of course, I don't envy the... [more]

Gold-diggers

by Natalie Hegert
Tonico Lemos Auad, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Isabelle Cornaro, Ligia Dias, Marcel Duchamp, Fang-Ntoumou, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Isa Genzken, Fabrice Gygi, Mona Hatoum, Georg Herold, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Sigmar Polke, Seth Price, Richard Prince, Wolfgang Tillmans, Danh Vo, Heimo Zobernig at Galerie Chantal Crousel February 21st, 2009 - April 11th, 2009
Posted 3/15/09

Bijoux de famille Exhibition view Photo credit: Florian Kleinefenn "I am very fond of gold, because it is symbolic.I look at gold in a disinterested way;Gold is like the sun, it is unalterable." Marcel Broodthaers "I believe enormously in eroticism, because it is something truly general throughout the world, something that everyone understands. It replaces, if you wish, what other Literary Schools call Symbolism, Romanticism. It could be another "ism", so to speak. I don't... [more]

Artist Books

by Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
Francis Alÿs, Giovanni Anselmo, Lars Arrhenius, Darren Bader, John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, IAIN BAXTER&, Thomas Bayrle, Larry Bell, Dara Birnbaum, Marcel Broodthaers, Fernando Bryce, Luca Buvoli, John Cage, Sophie Calle, Merlin Carpenter, Matthew Chambers, Shaoxiong Chen, Larry Clark, Sean Dack, Hanne Darboven, Tacita Dean, Mark Dion, Marcel Dzama, Yara El-Sherbini, Olafur Eliasson, Brian Eno, Neil Farber, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robbert Flick, Tom Friedman, Liam Gillick, Pamela Golden, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Ann Hamilton, Robert Heinecken, Arno Hintjens, Patrick Hoet, Dennis Hollingsworth, Rebecca Horn, David Horvitz, Adam Janes, Brian Kennon, Robbie Kinberg, Edwin Klein, Alison Knowles, Jutta Koether, Harmony Korine, Barbara Kruger, Brendan Lott, Nick Lowe, Euan Macdonald, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Matthew Monahan, Robert Morris, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Jorge Pardo, A. R. Penck, Asher Penn, Raymond Pettibon, Tom Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Michael S. Riedel, Pipilotti Rist, Dieter Roth, Francesc Ruiz, Raul Ruiz, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Peter Schmidt, Lara Schnitger, Jim Shaw, David Shrigley, Jorge Simes, Michael Snow, Haim Steinbach, Telfer Stokes, Calvin Sumsion, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, Richard Tuttle, Jan Voss, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, David Weiss, Fischli & Weiss, Benjamin Weissman, Pae White, Christopher Williams, Bobbi Woods, Christopher Wool at MOCA Pacific Design Center October 19th, 2008 - March 1st, 2009
Posted 1/5/09

MOCA at the Pacific Design Center currently has an exhibition of artist books. Unfortunately the books are under glass vitrines, but you CAN watch the pages turn through MOCA's website at: http://www.moca.org/openbook/sequences.php - a virtual read. The exhibition features books by Sigmar Polke, Keith Haring, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Snow, Ray Johnson, Andy Warhol, Hans-Peter Feldman, Paul McCarthy/Jason Rhoades and more. This exhibition does point out the issue with showing artist b... [more]

A Voyage on the Gold Coast

by Erik Wenzel
Marcel Broodthaers at The Arts Club of Chicago September 25th, 2008 - December 19th, 2008
Posted 10/27/08

Hidden away at Chicago’s most secretive major exhibition venue is an installation of some of Belgian conceptualist Marcel Broodthaers’ (1924-1976) most significant work. The exhibit at the Arts Club presents the much-discussed Décor: A Conquest (1975) along with Plaque en plastiques, vacuum formed plastic pieces that mix Rene Magritte, way finding signs and pedagogical texts with bland results, and Tableau Bateau (1973) an excellent meditation on an amateur naval painting.Décor: A Conquest i... [more]