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

Tucked away in a dark nook of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary wing lies one of the most confounding works of art of all time. It is perverse, bizarre, funny, poignant, sad, ...

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 ...

Portable chess set invented by Marcel Duchamp (1943) (All images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise specified) BRIGHTON, UK — Swapping out pieces in a game of chess is only a smart move ...

Cover of Duchamp’s Last Day by Donald Shambroom, published by David Zwirner Books (photo by Kyle Knodell, courtesy David Zwirner) On October 1, 1968, Duchamp died at age 81, quietly and unexpectedly — ...

MoMA's giant exhibition looks for a new reason to return to the 20th century's most-cited artist. Replica of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1950). Photo: Ben Davis. In between these two juicy scandals, ...

The exhibition, which takes up the museum’s entire sixth floor, is too vast to absorb in one go. Duchampian idea after Duchampian idea stimulates thought after thought of your own, and it’s important ...

A hundred years ago, in 1925, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) had long returned from New York back to Paris. His Readymade phase was pretty much over, just as he had abandoned painting for more than half a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Born into an artistic family in northern France in 1889, Suzanne Duchamp was exposed early in life to key movements of the early 20th-century avant-garde, including Cubism and Dada. But she also ...

I’m watching a flickery, tantalisingly brief video-clip of Marcel Duchamp being interviewed in 1966 for BBC Two’s Late Night Line-Up, by Joan Bakewell. It has the feel of an unlikely encounter: on the ...