When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it's been painted? A block of marble once it's been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), the answer was much more direct and far more radical ...

Artist and sculptor Marcel Duchamp might be most famous for his Modernist painting Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2, but his true passion may have been chess. After retiring to pursue an almost monk ...

Marcel Duchamp inside the exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, with his artworks “Fountain” (1950, replica of lost 1917 original) and “Bicycle Wheel” (1951, ...

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Marcel Duchamp redefined the word “art” with his Readymades. Now, nearly 100 years later, artists Bryan Cera and Scott Kildall have made it possible to reproduce one of the conceptual artist’s ...

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 ...

A bicycle wheel mounted on a stool, a metal bottle rack, a snow shovel with an inscription: Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) turned such ordinary objects into one of the most consequential ideas in ...