In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s creation of the iconic readymade work Fountain, an exhibition of Saâdane Afif’s The Fountain Archives opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris ...
This month marks the centennial of the display of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s first Readymade, the sculptures that were created from everyday objects and would change the direction of art history. In ...
On February 28, 2021, the New York Landmark Preservation Commission approved the design and construction of a five-story family townhouse at 110 West 88th Street in the Central Park West Historical ...
An upturned urinal with the words ‘R. Mutt 1917’ written on it, Fountain (1917) marked a seminal moment in the history of Western art, with the act of declaring a found object to be an artwork ...
Today, April 1, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is reviving an old art joke — one that still reflects serious issues of contemporary art. One hundred years ago — in April 1917 — the artist Marcel ...
We owe to our British cousins the term “piss take,” meaning mockery of, say, the pretentious, the self-venerating, the toxically earnest. But it was a Frenchman who delivered what might have been ...
In April 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp created his most controversial work: a gleaming, porcelain urinal pockmarked with holes and inscribed with his pseudonym “R. Mutt” on the front. Duchamp’s work, ...
A classically structured and refreshingly straightforward documentary film, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible in fact does the impossible — temporarily taming the wild, revolutionary, subversive ...
Three men met for lunch in New York early in April 1917. They were the American painter Joseph Stella, Walter Arensberg, a wealthy collector later obsessed by the notion that Bacon wrote Shakespeare, ...