Museums in Miniature: Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell will open September 26, 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. The exhibition explores the use of collage, assemblage, and staged tableaux by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell as plays on the notion of an exhibition space. Evocative juxtapositions, absurdities, and rebuses abound in Cornell’s work, demonstrating the enduring influence of Duchamp’s practice, and of Surrealism more broadly, during the second half of the 20th century.

Duchamp will be represented by MCASD’s The Green Box (1934) a compendium of manuscript notes, drawings, and photographs documenting the development of his major work, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23), and….”

Read the rest of the original article here: Duchamp at MCASD and see the full size image of this picture, courtesy of the Norton Simon Museum:

We all loved this show, which is thoughtfully presented in the galleries at the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Building @ 110 Kettner in downtown San Diego. Eight different artists were commissioned to travel to eight different UNESCO World Heritage Sites

“… around the globe and create new work informed and inspired by by their experiences in these diverse cultural and natural regions.”

The exhibition features newly commissioned works by Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, and six other leading contemporary artists.

We were honored to frame the 20 children’s drawings for Xu Bing’s installation, which has an interesting and functional web component you can check out from home.

Jason, Tom and I were all especially taken with Dario Robleto’s lush and intricately constructed casework displays, which are like tiny museums-within-museums, each with its own distinct focus on a specific component of the human experience. Exquisite craftsmanship infuses each of these new pieces with the intrigue of a rare archaeological find.

Remember to check this out when you’re downtown this fall, the show runs through February 1 , 2009.