MoMA, Mezzanine, Theater 3
The Celeste Bartos Theater
Join acclaimed artists Alex Da Corte and Lynn Hershman Leeson, alongside art historian Bradley Bailey, as they reflect on Marcel Duchamp’s subversive deployment of an alter ego and his expansive views on art and authorship.
This event launches Duchamp Talks: Artists on Artists, the first in a series of conversations on the occasion of the exhibition Marcel Duchamp, in which contemporary artists and Duchamp experts alike reflect on his category-defying life in art and his legacy for 21st-century artists. Exhibition curators Michelle Kuo and Ann Temkin will introduce the evening and serve as moderators.
Bradley Bailey is an associate professor in and program director of the art history department at Saint Louis University. His numerous publications on Marcel Duchamp include the book Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess (2009), which he co-authored with Francis M. Naumann and Jennifer Shahade.
Alex Da Corte is a multidisciplinary artist known for his Pop-informed sensibility and embrace of theatricality. Da Corte’s videos, sculptures, paintings, and installations ruminate on personal and cultural politics and the complexities of the human experience.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is an artist and filmmaker known for her work investigating the relationship between human identity and technology, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression.
Michelle Kuo is chief curator at large and publisher at MoMA.
Ann Temkin is MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.
