Artists are often secretive creatures, hesitant to disclose too much, and none more so than Marcel Duchamp, who spun slipperiness into an art form. But I think Duchamp may have given the game away ...

For a 1953 Dada exhibition, Marcel Duchamp designed a one-page catalogue meant to be crumpled up and tossed in the trash. Marcel Duchamp, “Dada 1916–1923 / Sidney Janis” (1953) (all images courtesy ...

The French American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made a splash when his Fountain, an impishly repurposed porcelain urinal, was rejected by a major New York art show in 1917. But while he became a ...

A French man has been ordered to pay a large fine for cracking one of Marcel Duchamp's most famous works of art with a hammer. The man says Duchamp would have approved of his "performance art." A ...

Grandparents often tend to that which has been orphaned in children, those parts of us that are neglected, thwarted or in rebellion against the parental bond. The relation between Marcel Duchamp, the ...

This is Marcel Duchamp, at age 78, in a single frame from one of Warhol’s “Screen Tests”, the four-minute filmed portraits that Warhol made by the hundreds in the mid 1960s, mostly by pointing his ...

MONA Lisa with mustache? Check. Bicycle wheel on stool? Got it. Autographed urinal? You bet. Marcel Duchamp and gang are back in what’s bound to be the biggest museum blockbuster this summer: “Dada,” ...

The artists Marcel Duchamp and May Ray had a close friendship that lasted over five decades, resulting in dozens of collaborative artworks that shaped Dadaism and modern art history forever. But, when ...

The curious thing about the readymade is that I’ve never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There’s still magic in the idea .. . . Opulently inked on top-shelf ...

“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste," proclaimed Marcel Duchamp, Dada master and the man behind everyone's favorite urinal. The phrase only begins to ...

Composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a Dada pioneer who mixed music with other sounds. His 1917 ballet, Parade, has dance hall tunes with typewriters, foghorns, rattles, and revolver shots written into ...