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Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY

On the evening of February 26, some of the great and the good of the art and publishing worlds gathered at the Marshall Chess Club to celebrate the publication of Calvin TomkinsMarcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY
Afternoon Interviews author Calvin Tomkins and Dodie Kazanjian.

Located just across the street from the brownstone where the artist once resided and where the interviews took place, the club's walls are lined with photos of Duchamp (he spent a large amount of time at the club), interspersed with other players including Bobby Fischer.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY
Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni.

Indeed the historical location made Duchamp’s sentiment (quoted by Tompkins in the book), "Not all artists are chess players, but all chess players are artists," particularly poignant; throughout the night, several groups sat down to play, while the event was in full swing.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY
Frederic Tuten and Badlands Unlimited Publisher, Paul Chan.

Amongst the guests that evening were Paul Chan, artist and founder of Badlands Unlimited (the publisher of these interviews); Tobias Meyer, Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s; art collector and advisor Mark Fletcher; artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham; Carol Greene of Greene Naftali Gallery; Eve MacSweeney and Dodie Kazanjian from Vogue; art collector and patron, Charles De Gunzburg and his wife, Dia Chairwoman, Nathalie De Gunzburg; Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director, Museum of Modern Art; Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director at the New Museum; independent curator and High Line Art Director Cecilia Alemani; Michelle Kuo, Editor of Artforum and novelist Frederic Tuten.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY
Charles and Natalie de Gunzburg with Carol Greene.

The event was covered by The Wall Street Journal, Women's Wear Daily and Vogue.com.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY
Dodie Kazanjian and New York magazine senior art critic, Jerry Saltz.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY
MoMA's Kathy Halbreich.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY
Mark Fletcher and Tobias Meyer.

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY

Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

Badlands Unlimited
Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 110 pgs / 10 b&w.