Charles Stuckey
Charles Stuckey is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail.
April 2026Books
Francis Naumann’s Impossible: The Love Affair between Marcel Duchamp & Maria Martins, and the Artwork it Inspired
Francis M. Naumann has been among the leading scholars of Marcel Duchamp’s art and life for decades, including his consequential interactions with Brazilian artist, Maria Martins, who kept a studio in New York during the 1940s. A thoroughly illustrated little monograph, entitled Impossible (after one of her sculptures), provides an account of the romance between Duchamp and Martins alluded to in his letters to her.
The New York branch of Luxembourg + Co. is presenting an idiosyncratic, but most provocative, selection of Man Ray’s so-called “Objects.” The exhibition has been organized to explore and hopefully to justify his approved proliferation of his unprecedented plastic Dada poems (none surviving in its original version) as replicas and multiples.
