![]() (Disclosure – I have donated to this project). He intends to solicit donations from 1 million individuals, which he will present as a bundle of cash as a work of sculpture. Appropriating the philanthropic model of a non-profit organization, Nelson invites people to support him with donations of $1. For example, Dan Nelson has recently initiated Make an Artist a Millionaire. In the Bay Area, where the market for contemporary art is slow even at the best of times, artists have often turned to variants on Duchamp’s model. ![]() The work is an overt comment on speculation in the art market, a phenomenon which benefited Duchamp both as speculator and as artist. Along the right edge is a row of stamps, each denoting an investor in Duchamp’s gamble. The print is designed to look like a roulette table. His hair is whipped up with shaving lather to resemble the messenger god’s winged helmet. Monte Carlo Bond bears an image of the artist as the Roman god Mercury, photographed by Man Ray. In 1924, Duchamp proposed a project in which he invited investors to contribute to a fund, which he would use to play roulette in the casinos of Monte Carlo. In light of my ongoing ruminations on the economy’s effect on artists, one work especially stuck in my mind. ![]() ![]() Last week, I went to see Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp ![]()
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