Marcel Duchamp, Reactionary? A MoMA Retrospective Exposes The Radical Artist’s Bourgeois Yearnings

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

Marcel Duchamp and His Women

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

And the Most Influential Modern Artist Is …

Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a sweeping survey at MoMA is an arresting reminder. Critic’s Pick Marcel ...
The New York Times

In 1917, He Made a Urinal Into Art. We’re Still Discussing.

Marcel Duchamp changed the face of culture in the 20th century, and beyond, with an unconventional sculpture that challenged how we think of art. This 1917 photo by Alfred Stieglitz shows “Fountain” ...
Observer

Marcel Duchamp at MoMA: Five Revelations From the Artist’s First North American Survey in Over 50 Years

Installation view: “Marcel Duchamp” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Museum of Modern Art, New Yo Raised in Blainville-Crevon, a small town in northwestern France, he began drawing and ...
The New Yorker

The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp

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, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See How Marcel Duchamp Broke the Rules and Shocked the Art World Again and Again

In November, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million. For some, Comedian, as Maurizio Cattelan’s creation was known, was a clever work of genius. David Galperin, head of contemporary art ...
Hyperallergic

I’ve Got the Post-Duchamp Blues

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