“Not all artists are chess players, but all chess players are artists,” declared Marcel Duchamp, a renowned painter whose Nude Descending a Staircase took the world by storm in 1913. Within five years ...
Portable chess set invented by Marcel Duchamp (1943) (All images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise specified) BRIGHTON, UK — Swapping out pieces in a game of chess is only a smart move ...
From Duchamp to Damien Hirst, chess has long inspired the big names of the art world. Alastair Sooke reports In 1927, Marcel Duchamp, the French-born trail-blazer of conceptual art, married a young ...
In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp claimed to no longer be making art, and began to devote considerable time to chess. He’d grown up battling with his older brothers, Raymond and Jacques, and in his later ...
Chess challenges the mind’s abilities, as well as the body’s stamina. Chess is mental and physical, but can it be conceptual? If you’ve ever taken a modern art course, your professor likely talked ...
One South Side artist has spent the past 20 years bringing strangers together through outdoor chess in downtown Chicago. With a small audience watching, Cecil Locke reached across the chess table to ...
During a postcollege stint as a blackjack dealer in Atlantic City, freelance writer Hallman discovered the chess community that thrives in dealer lounges. There he met 39-year-old chess master Glenn ...
"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to ...
One South Side artist has spent the past 20 years bringing strangers together through outdoor chess in downtown Chicago. With a small audience watching, Cecil Locke reached across the chess table to ...
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