Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess

Larry List is an independent writer and curator of Dada, Surreal and chess-related art. His exhibitions include The Imagery of Chess Revisited, The Art of Chess, Man Ray & Sherrie Levine, and John Cage & Glenn Kaino. He has written catalogue essays for the Noguchi Museum, the Menil Collection, the Tate Modern, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many others.

'Artist Man Ray combined flashes of inspiration with methodical application. No wonder that he was drawn to the game of chess, which demands both. It was Larry List's inspired idea to investigate the chess-related aspects of Man Ray's multifaceted career, and he has plumbed the subject with a thoroughness worthy of the master, giving us many enlightening—and entertaining—insights.' - ARTHUR LUBOW, contributor to the New York Times and the New Yorker, author of Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows