The French American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made a splash when his Fountain, an impishly repurposed porcelain ...

While “the strangest work of art in any museum” is still on view, other Duchamp pieces have made their way to New York City.

The institution renamed itself in honor of a readymade whoopee cushion by Marcel Duchamp discovered in its archives.

Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...

Around holiday time, you’ve got to envy the Norwegians. They’ve got real candles on the tree, gobbets of pork fat for Christmas dinner (these are euphemistically known as “ribs”) and aquavit to feed ...

During the last two decades of his life, Marcel Duchamp appeared to have given up art for chess, publically claiming he had gone underground. But hidden in his New York apartment was the final, ...

This stately Georgian home in Washington, D.C., is filled to the brim with art. But its owners may be hard-pressed to describe the artworks' visual qualities. "They're not beautiful," said Aaron ...

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 ...

In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lépine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day. In between a stand of instant vegetable ...

Marcel Duchamp’s dialogues are arguably as important to modern art as Socrates’ dialogues were to ancient philosophy, fundamental documents of their field that raised questions for generations to come ...

It was a simple, metal bottle rack, purchased in a department store, that forever changed the evolution of the art world. “Bottlerack” (1914) was Marcel Duchamp’s first piece of “ready-made” art, as ...