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 entry to the New York City art scene caused an eruption of outrage—exactly as he had hoped.

The Museum of Modern Art has an impressive Marcel Duchamp show right now, and Gagosian is showing him, too. What can one still say about him that hasn’t been said? Let’s see. I come to Duchamp with an ...

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 ...

"Robert Lebel, a French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp's often hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, ...

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 ...

His fame as the inventor of the readymade has often eclipsed his aesthetic beginnings ...

A painter who early on shifted into conceptual provocation with his ‘Readymades’—including, infamously, a urinal—the French artist gets his first retrospective in the U.S. in more than 50 years.

De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), série B, ca. 1935–1940 Created 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' (Philadelphia Museum of Art), causing an uproar at New York City's ...

It’s astonishing, I thought—as I toured the brain-teasing, patience-testing, must-see survey devoted to the work of Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art (his first North American retrospective ...

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 ...