RE: tangent on Duchamp

[Cathy.Ross-Burdin (Ross-Burdin, Cathy)]

For the curious - Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors Even" 
(the
official title of the "Large Glass") is
on permanent exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, along with
his drawings for the glass and his "explanations" (such as they are) for 
each
element (the bachelors, the chocolate grinder, etc.). My favorite tidbit is 
about the
glass breaking during shipment and Duchamp deciding that the cobweb of 
cracks enhanced
the piece and so insisted
that it be glued in place that way.

The Philly museum has one of the world's largest Duchamp collections
(located in the room right next door to the Brancusi sculptures), including
"Nude Descending a Staircase."  and several other glass structures (smaller 
in
scale that "The Bride..."). Actually, their
entire "modern" collection is noteworthy.
For those in SoCal, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena has an interesting
collection of Duchamp's notebooks.

I highly recommend the New Yorker piece - it was quite interesting. I figure 
those
glitzy ads pay the rent so that they can continue to publish those wonderful 
Roz Chast
 cartoons and extensive pieces about people who would never make it to the 
pages of
People.

cathy