An appeals court in Paris may soon have to actually answer the generally rhetorical question: But is it art? Pierre Pinoncelli was convicted of vandalizing one of the famous urinals signed by Dadaist ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1586): It’s probably safe to say that The Bride, painted by Marcel Duchamp in 1912, is the most straightforwardly precious work in the fabulous “Dadaglobe Reconstructed” show at the ...

Sotheby’s is pleased to offer a collection of 20th-century artists’ book, focusing principally on Marcel Duchamp, but also including Man Ray, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, and Georges Hugnet.

Conceptual Artist as Vandal: Walk Tall and Carry a Little Hammer (or Ax) French performance artist Pierre Pinoncelli is arrested after taking small hammer to Marcel Duchamp artwork Fountain, ...

It is amusing to speculate about what Marcel Duchamp, the doyen of Dada, would have made of his appearance in twenty-first-century Afghanistan. That happened as part of a cultural outreach program ...

It was April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who’d found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Digitized sound recording, 0.484 GB, of a lecture by sculptor and painter Marcel Duchamp at the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, N.Y., ...

When a piece of art or performance is designated as avant-garde it sometimes translates to out-there, off-putting, or intimidating. (Consider Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain or dadaism’s abstractions of ...

Scrapbooks compiled by Mrs. Marcel Duchamp containing: ca. 15 letters and telegrams to Marcel Duchamp, 1947-1967; poems sent to Duchamp from admirers; an essay on Duchamp by Guy Beatrice, 1954; ...

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 ...