Love isn’t a word, or a concept, that one usually associates with Marcel Duchamp, the modernist master of irony and distance, but love—love of the mind and what it can do, love of bodies and play, ...
EL PAÍS English on MSN: Marcel Duchamp, the creator who made art without his hands
Contemporary art always brings out visceral feelings about the definition of art — to some people, a wheel sitting on a stool could never be considered art. As a foil to this belief, Marcel Duchamp ...
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 ...
Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a sweeping survey at MoMA is an arresting reminder. Critic’s Pick Marcel ...
A hundred years ago, in 1925, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) had long returned from New York back to Paris. His Readymade phase was pretty much over, just as he had abandoned painting for more than half a ...
Marcel Duchamp’s original “Fountain” sculpture vanished within days of its 1917 appearance. He later introduced these versions in response to demand. In 1963, Duchamp gave permission for a critic in ...
A Vast Collection that Predates MoMA An exhibit on the Société Anonyme, an “experimental museum” founded by Marcel Duchamp and other artists and that served as a model for the Museum of Modern Art, is ...