Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Artists manipulate the newspaper! 100-year history traced in "Shock of the News"

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Raoul Hausmann, Salomo Friedländer (Mynona), 1919. Newspaper, woodcut and journal clippings on silver Japanese paper, 25.5 x 21.2 cm (10 x 8 3/8 in.). Collection Merrill C. Berman. WASHINGTON, DC.- Since 1909, major artists from nearly every art movement have co-opted, mimicked, defused, undermined, memorialized, and rewritten newspapers. Shock of the News will examine the myriad manifestations of the "newspaper phenomenon" through 65 collages, paintings, drawings, sculptures, artists' newspapers, prints, and photographs by European and American artists, from F. T. Marinetti and Pablo Picasso to the Guerrilla Girls and Robert Gober. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, East Building, from September 23, 2012, through January 27, 2013, the exhibition will also include the large-scale multimedia installation To Mallarmé (2003) by Mario Merz. With two exceptions, the 60 artists in the exhibition will each be represented by one exemplary work. "Artists pursuing various agendas have transformed the disposable daily paper into compelling works of art. Shock of the News promises to shape our understan ... More