“The Art of Chess” at London’s Saatchi Gallery
September 2012
The game of chess has always fascinated the world’s intellectuals, artist Marcel Duchamp among them. In 1944, he curated a show for the New York gallerist Julian Levy, “The Imagery of Chess,” incorporating pieces by such giants as Alexander Calder, André Breton and Man Ray (as well as a musical piece by John Cage). Now, London’s Saatchi Gallery is showing an homage of sorts [...]
TAGS: Alexander Calder, André Breton, Barbara Kruger, Gavin Turk, John Cage, Julian Levy, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan, Saatchi Gallery, Sue Nobel, Tim Webster, Yayoi Kusama, “The Art of Chess” Damien Hirst


























