Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The prize was launched by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) in 2000. Since 2016, proposals by the four nominated artists have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou ...

When Marcel Duchamp presented a urinal as art, he changed modern culture forever. This video explains the shock, controversy and lasting impact of Fountain, the work that challenged what art could be ...