Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...
In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lépine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day. In between a stand of instant vegetable ...
One of the most controversial artworks sparking debates over authorship, and even inspiring numerous unauthorized replicas produced by artists, craftsmen, and commercial manufacturers is Marcel ...
Cover of Duchamp’s Last Day by Donald Shambroom, published by David Zwirner Books (photo by Kyle Knodell, courtesy David Zwirner) On October 1, 1968, Duchamp died at age 81, quietly and unexpectedly — ...
Marcel Duchamp's 'readymades,' enormously influential in twentieth century art, are questioned by Rhonda Roland Shearer, who says artist altered or made all of objects and then cunningly covered up ...
This stately Georgian home in Washington, D.C., is filled to the brim with art. But its owners may be hard-pressed to describe the artworks' visual qualities. "They're not beautiful," said Aaron ...
A classically structured and refreshingly straightforward documentary film, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible in fact does the impossible — temporarily taming the wild, revolutionary, subversive ...
Modern art’s most influential trickster was hatched from the controversy surrounding “Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)” “Art questions are of absolutely no interest to me now,” said Marcel Duchamp ...
The Box in a Valise/Boite en Valise (Series E) From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rose Sélavy by Marcel Duchamp, 1963 © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris ...
“Consider the practical effects of the objects of your conception. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object." Charles Sanders Peirce, Popular Science ...
After a few years disrupted by Covid, the Marcel Duchamp Prize – France’s leading award for young artists—was given to Paris-based Mimosa Echard, whose work intertwines nature and consumer culture.