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I'm working on a very art-themed podcast which should be ready for release this Friday. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be a supporting player in…
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MuseumsArt Insanity: The elegant audacity of the Armory Show of 1913, the daring exhibit that awed and outraged America
January 11, 2013
The monster within the Armory's 'Chamber of Horrors': Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2 PODCAST The Armory Show of 1913 was the mainstream debut of modernist art -- both European and American -- to New York City audiences. Galleries had previously devoted…
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