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 ...
In the early 20th century, Marcel Duchamp stirred up controversy in the art world by displaying what he termed “readymade” art — everyday objects, like the urinal in his famous Fountain, displayed ...
A century before a banana duct-taped to a wall blew up the very definition of art, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, an upside-down, prefabricated porcelain urinal mounted on a pedestal and signed with a ...
Visiting Monte Carlo in the early 1920s, Marcel Duchamp persuaded himself that he could beat the casinos at their own gambit. “I believe I have eliminated the word chance,” he informed the French ...
The warmth you’ll feel on your second or third viewing of “Marcel Duchamp” will come from the realization that Duchamp jettisoned the artist’s ego—the “I” that demands attention and equates success ...
Marcel Duchamp inside the exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, with his artworks “Fountain” (1950, replica of lost 1917 original) and “Bicycle Wheel” (1951, ...
Installation view: “Marcel Duchamp” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Museum of Modern Art, New Yo Raised in Blainville-Crevon, a small town in northwestern France, he began drawing and ...
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