The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, received a gift of 98 works of kinetic art from the collection of the David Bermant Foundation in Santa Barbara, California. The substantial ...

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 ...

As a cavalry doctor with the 11th Cuirassiers during World War I, Raymond Duchamp-Villon knew equine anatomy well. As a sculptor, and one of the triumvirate of brothers that included Painter Jacques ...

Marcel Duchamp, “The Green Box,” 1934, gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Cathy Craver, Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society, ...

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 ...

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 ...