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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Bicycle Lane Icon Philadelphia Nude Descending a Staircase

Cycle lane Philadelphiaフィラアデルフィアの自転車専用レーン

Having just come from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we were struck by the similarity of a Center City bike lane icon to Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2).

Duchamp's work was a sensation at the Armory Show of contemporary art in February 1913 held in New York; it now resides in the Philadelphia Museum.

The Cubist work was bought at the Armory Show for three hundred dollars, and then later repurchased by Walter Arensberg, who was a patron of the Art Museum.

Today, the work has reappeared in modified form on the streets of Philadelphia, where it is ubiquitous if not quite as sensational.

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