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 ...

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 ...

Unravelling some lesser-known details about an international art revolutionary, we acquaint you with the figure of another. Marcel Duchamp, the outstandingly influential, idiosyncratic figure of 20th ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 world’s armchair art historians, conceptual art aficionados and chess buffs are in luck. An expansive online research portal centred on the life and work of the artist Marcel Duchamp has been ...

“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 ...