Duchamp in California Regular Merchandise Oscar Hadwiger’s highly detailed wood

Oscar Hadwiger’s highly detailed wood models of fantastical architecture

smoking guns

the Tirs (“shooting paintings”) and Nanas (“dames”)

Massachusetts and the Whitney Museum of American Art

Duchamp in California Regular Merchandise Oscar Hadwiger’s highly detailed woodMarcel Duchamps first retrospective in 1963, curated by the youthful and energetic curator Walter Hopps, was a singular moment in twentieth century art history. This chronicle of its conception and execution reveals an ascendant cultural history of Los Angeles in the early 1960s. A reawakening to Duchamps impact on contemporary thought was on full display first in Californiaaccompanied by a remarkable cast of artists, curators, critics, gallerists,