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 ...

Marcel Duchamp in a 1968 photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Gelatin silver photograph. (Henri Cartier-Bresson/Cathy Carver/Promised Gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) ...

Marcel Duchamp: An art pioneer and his ambiguous inspirations January 13, 2013 More than 12 years ago The Duchamp-inspired set pieces that Jasper Johns designed for a 1968 Merce Cunningham ballet ...

Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal as a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists in New York in 1917 to see if they would live up to their vow to accept anything into their galleries.

A D.C. couple have bequeathed the Hirshhorn one of the most important privately owned troves of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the French-born iconoclast who redefined the very idea of what makes art.

Marcel Duchamp is probably the most famous prankster who is also taken seriously as an avant-garde artist. Best known for tipping a urinal on its back to transform it into a modern sculpture, the ...

Then Hopps mounted the first Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 1963. ... One of the great art theorists, Duchamp was also a sly prankster. “I think he liked that slippage,” Norris says, ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Association Marcel Duchamp, and the Centre Pompidou pooled their respective archives for the project. Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by May Ray, around 1919.

Known for his snake- and skull-shaped jewelry, the iconoclastic designer who died in 2023 also left behind an astonishing ...

Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp.The film breaks down Duchamp’s ideas and ...

Art & Exhibitions Meet the 4 Artists Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Now Showing at the Centre Pompidou. Four artists contending with identity and migration have made the shortlist.