The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to examine the genesis, construction, and reception of Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1° The Waterfall, 2° The Illuminating Gas), Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic final masterwork. Duchamp (1887-1968) constructed Étant donnés in complete secrecy over a period of 20 years, from 1946 to 1966, during which he publicly claimed to have gone "underground" and given up art for chess. It was not until after his death on October 2, 1968 that the work was discovered in his studio. The multi-media ass...

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a special installation devoted to the art of British artists Gilbert & George who have created all their art together since the late 1960s and are known for their dramatic, large-scale colorful pictures. Drawn from the Museum collection and supplemented by additional loans, Gilbert & George (May 2-November 2, 2008) includes 13 pictures indicative of the major phases of their art from the 1970s and 1980s. On view in the Alter Gallery (Gallery 176, first floor), the installation is the fifth in the Museum’s Notations series.

Gilbert (born 1943) and George (born 1942) me...

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