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 ...
A century before a banana duct-taped to a wall blew up the very definition of art, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, an upside-down, prefabricated porcelain urinal mounted on a pedestal and signed with a ...
In the early 20th century, Marcel Duchamp stirred up controversy in the art world by displaying what he termed “readymade” art — everyday objects, like the urinal in his famous Fountain, displayed ...
"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, ...
Something about art disgusted Marcel Duchamp. Expression, taste, aesthetic intention—anything that gave off a whiff of the precious, he recoiled from. He was modern. He relished the impersonal ...
Visiting Monte Carlo in the early 1920s, Marcel Duchamp persuaded himself that he could beat the casinos at their own gambit. “I believe I have eliminated the word chance,” he informed the French ...
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 ...
Installation view: “Marcel Duchamp” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Museum of Modern Art, New Yo Raised in Blainville-Crevon, a small town in northwestern France, he began drawing and ...
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