The French artist Marcel Duchamp is widely known for his readymades. Even those who don’t know who Duchamp is probably know about his work called The Fountain. However, his artistic journey ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

These readymades, everyday objects Marcel Duchamp deemed as works of art, expanded the possibilities of what an artist could do and what art could be. The verbal aspect of readymades – whether the ...

Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both historical events and the modernist explosion that blanketed the early 20th century. Art of the Possible isn't simply ...

On the wintry streets of Manhattan, the foot traffic to see the greatest art exhibition ... of ninety Duchamp items collected by Mary Sisler, a buyer of early Duchamp drawings and paintings (from ...

In 1917, at an exhibition at New York’s Society of Independent Artists, Marcel Duchamp showed ... Duchamp upended the hierarchy of the art world. It was a fearsome, revolutionary joke. Since the age ...

From the signed urinal to "Nude Descending a Staircase", Marcel Duchamp continues to influence contemporary art. A new exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, shows the extent of the his ...

the Prix Marcel Duchamp exhibition won’t be held at the Centre Pompidou (which is currently undergoing renovations). Instead, the exhibition will be hosted by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris ...

Often displayed in playful positions, the artist has said that the starting point for her life-sized bear works were inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s "readymades." "My thinking does not come from the ...