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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Four finalists have been nominated for the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize: Xie Lei, Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabatté. The 25th edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize will be held at the Musée ...

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 ...

Topsy-turvy went the urinal, and the modestly scaled, infinitely scandalous art landmark “Fountain” was born. Up went the snow shovel, dangling from a ceiling, and suddenly the world had another new ...