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One of the Most Famous Images of the 20th Century Is Going Up For Auction

by Hakim Bishara February 24, 2022February 25, 2022

Man Ray’s surrealist portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse, “Le Violon d’Ingres” (1924), could become the most expensive photograph ever sold.

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The Seductive Misogyny of Man Ray

Avatar photo by Johanna Sluiter March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

There’s something deeply violent lurking below the surface of Man Ray and Fashion, an aspect made all the more troubling by a curatorial strategy of omission.

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Marie Cuttoli, the Entrepreneur Who Brought Modern Art to the Textile Industry

by Ilene Dube July 23, 2020November 5, 2020

Cuttoli recruited artists like Picasso and Man Ray to design textiles for her workshops in Algeria and shop in Paris, bringing Modernism to a broader audience in the early 20th century.

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Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan on Their Surreal Soundscapes for Man Ray’s Silent Films

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau February 10, 2020February 13, 2020

Jarmusch and Logan’s SQÜRL — which they describe as an “enthusiastically marginal rock band” — weaves a trippy musical accompaniment to four silent films by Man Ray.

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How Surrealism’s Playful Aesthetic Was Deeply Political

by Ela Bittencourt September 16, 2019December 21, 2022

The Surrealists’ insistence on irrationality was not a sport, but an attempt to engage in the political debates of their time.

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Was Man Ray the Inspiration Behind the Black Dahlia Murder?

Avatar photo by Zachary Small March 28, 2019March 28, 2019

Steve Hodel believes his father — a friend of the surrealist — committed the grizzly Hollywood murder as an emulation of the artist’s techniques.

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Dada’s Holy Grail

by Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle February 18, 2018February 19, 2018

Marcel Duchamp’s zines leapt from their lair to entertain artists and educate the public.

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Entangled Objects Through the Ages, from Sorcerers’ Amulets to Voodoo Dolls

by Joseph Nechvatal August 14, 2017August 14, 2017

The latest show at La Maison Rouge is a collection of hexing creations that are difficult to disentangle and fully interpret.

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The Power of Protest Art, from Goya to Polke

by Joseph Nechvatal November 22, 2016November 23, 2016

In Soulèvements, an ahistorical exhibition of art made for and about acts of protest, works either make their political agendas self-evident or embed them in their formal properties.

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Reader’s Diary: Man Ray’s ‘Writings on Art’

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky June 19, 2016June 20, 2016

Jennifer Mundy acknowledges in her Preface to Man Ray’s Writings on Art that, compared to his friends Duchamp and Picabia, he has come to be seen as something of a lightweight.

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Posters Portend the Mortal Hazards of Modernity

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 8, 2016February 11, 2016

MIAMI BEACH — For every skyscraper, zeppelin, airplane, or even lightbulb that demonstrated the progress of technology from the late-19th to mid-20th century, there were countless human bodies mangled, maimed, and electrified along the way.

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The Pompidou’s Permanent Collection, Reinstalled Along the Lines of Art Theory

by Joseph Nechvatal October 30, 2015November 3, 2015

PARIS — Where the newness of art comes from (when it comes) is something of a conundrum.

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