Love isn’t a word, or a concept, that one usually associates with Marcel Duchamp, the modernist master of irony and distance, but love—love of the mind and what it can do, love of bodies and play, ...

MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp show made me long for those simpler times when "eliminating the artist's hand" provided a pathway back to the true self.

Loaded with masterpieces including Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase, the Museum of Modern Art shows Duchamp at his ...

After nearly four decades, the king of the art dealers says goodbye to his perch at 980 Madison—and moves to the ground floor in the same building. The first show? That big bang of conceptual art: ...

Otherwise it’s perfect – wittily written and packed with many fascinating characters besides the ever intriguing Marcel ...

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

It’s astonishing, I thought—as I toured the brain-teasing, patience-testing, must-see survey devoted to the work of Marcel ...

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, ...

In his 1995 book The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp, historian Jerrold E. Seigel wrote that, for the French sculptor and painter, “the absence of habit was an important condition of freedom.” Indeed ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...