The readymade, “Fountain” attributed to Marcel Duchamp from 1917. Photo by Alfred Stieglitz, in public domain from Wikimedia Commons.

In 1917 Marcel Duchamp created his famous ‘Fountain,’ a urinal that was also ‘readymade’ work of art. Reproductions might survive, but the original has long been lost.

In November, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million. For some, Comedian, as Maurizio Cattelan’s creation was known, was a clever work of genius. David Galperin, head of contemporary art ...

Some Aesthetic Decisions: A Centennial Celebration of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (Skira) is the catalogue of an exhibition of the same name that was up for much of last year at the NSU Art Museum ...

1887 Marcel Duchamp born in Normandy. 1911 Duchamp meets Francis Picabia (1879-1953) at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. As Duchamp remembered, "Our friendship began right there." ...

In April 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp created his most controversial work: a gleaming, porcelain urinal pockmarked with holes and inscribed with his pseudonym “R. Mutt” on the front. Duc… ...

In 1917, Parisian painter Marcel Duchamp famously pioneered the conceptual artistic movement of the “readymade” by displaying a piece named Fountain — a porcelain urinal signed with the moniker “R.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s creation of the iconic readymade work Fountain, an exhibition of Saâdane Afif’s The Fountain Archives opened at the Centre Pompidou ...

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is an upside-down urinal with ‘R. Mutt 1917’ written on it, and seeing it changed the way Danielle So looked at ordinary objects and artworks.

Marcel Duchamp’s 100-year-old urinal is still a rush, a new exhibit at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale argues. Here are eight photos from the new show.

In April 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp created his most controversial work: a gleaming, porcelain urinal pockmarked with holes and inscribed with his pseudonym “R. Mutt” on the front. Duchamp ...