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Repository 202: DaDa and MeMe | The Internet Gives Back
A little over a month ago, a student of art history and psychology at Vanderbilt University found my work online. She is writing a paper on Dada, feminism and the influence of Duchamp on female artists. I’m honored to be a part of the dialog, and I’ll share with you the work she was particularly interested in, and my initial responses to her questions. For those of you unfamiliar with Dada, please know that it was a fierce and fun…
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Repository 197: Primal Art | Notes on the Medium of Scent
The following article was published today at Temporary Art Review. I’m honored to be a contributor to their publication, and if you have not browsed the writings there, check it out. Meanwhile on scent art: Art is in transition: that is one certain fact. And it is one more reason why it would be vain to attempt anything in the nature of pontifical judgement on its immediate manifestations. We should be content with the fact that art is alive –…
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Repository 186: What We Call Love | Love is All We Need
This past Fall my husband and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary in Ireland. In Dublin we were able to see the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s current show, up through February 2016, titled “What We Call Love”. This ambitious show celebrates visual artists’ take on the ever-changing idea of love from the Surrealists to Louis Bourgeois and Jim Hodges. While our ideas of love change throughout time, the feeling is always the same. There were three pieces in…
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Repository 169: Perfume No. 31 | How to Scent an Exhibition
I just received a package of reconnaissance for my ongoing scent, parfumerie and all things alchemical project. The most intriguing was a recent “art exhibit” fragrance launched by JCrew. They did not go the anemic grass and floral bomb route as other mid-tier retailers have done in the past. Instead they went a more intellectual route by collaborating with a fragrance boutique “Arquiste”, and based the fragrance on the “Exhibition by 31 Women” by Peggy Guggenheim in 1943. That’s right,…
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Repository 155: The Betrayal of Tradition | Chua Ek Kay
“Tradition has been created by serious people who considered life a serious business and that it was necessary to produce serious things so that serious posterity would understand everything that these people, serious for their epoch, had done. I wanted to get rid of that …” – Marcel Duchamp A short sunset post for the week reflecting on the importance and challenges of betraying tradition. Chua Ek Key (1947-2008) was a Chinese ink painter from Singapore. Chinese ink painting is…
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Repository 105: Bon Mots | Marcel Duchamp on the Lazies and Tasty Affairs
I just completed the book, “The Afternoon Interviews”, a republishing of interviews by Calvin Tomkins of Marcel Duchamp. The beginning of the book is a current interview with Tomkins and Paul Chan from 2011 where Tomkins recalls his introduction to Duchamp. The second part of the book are the republished interviews with Duchamp from the late 50’s and early 60s. Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1960. He continues to report for them, and…
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