Marcel Duchamp Redux @ The Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon). This commemorative exhibition, Marcel Duchamp Redux, contains a dozen works acquired in the time since that survey. Duchamp's dynamic, subversive conceptual bent is on display in a series of drawn-over reproductions (like the infamous Mona Lisa-with-a-mustache), "rotoreliefs" that haven't been on view since 1963, and images of the original retrospective, which Duchamp himself attended. – Alexx Shaw

Lecture: Marcel Duchamp, Surrealism and the Making of Étant donnés October 25 @ 4.00PM

Marcel Duchamp began work on his diorama-like assemblage when he was actively involved in Surrealist exhibition design and closely aligned with the aims and ideals of André Breton’s exiled group in New York. Michael Taylor, Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, examines Duchamp’s final work, titled Étant donnés, 1946–66, now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, within the context of Surrealism.
Free with Museum admission.

Portrait of an Artist: Marcel Duchamp - A Game of Chess (1963)

Portrait of an Artist: Marcel Duchamp - A Game of Chess is an interview segment with French artist Marcel Duchamp, leader of the Dada movement and pioneer of ready-made art. Filmed in black-and-white, this interview was held at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1963. Duchamp discusses his theories on the game of chess, his expatriate status in America, and his decision to stop working after 1923. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide