The reality is more powerful than art? Well…

The other day I watched stuff turn into art when I saw Tracey Emin assemble My Bed, one of the most controversial ready-mades ever created. At the start of her installation there was a mattress on a plinth and two tables of carefully bagged objects. By the time she’d finished, […]

A century of Dada

A century ago the world was two years into an apocalyptic war: and 1916 saw it turn more murderous yet with the Battle of the Somme, killing almost 20,000 British soldiers on its first day alone. That same year a group of mostly German pacifists in exile in neutral Switzerland […]

Duchamp and the creative act

Marcel Duchamp made a presentation in Houston (Texas) in 1957 in front of the Conference of the American Federation of the Arts. This presentation was published in the magazine Art News (volume 56, n 4, summer 1957), and we are going to present what was his theory on the creative […]