The next year, Duchamp mounted a bicycle wheel onto an upside-down fork fixed to a wooden stool. He enjoyed the way the ...

A bicycle wheel mounted on a stool, a metal bottle rack, a snow shovel with an inscription: Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) turned such ordinary objects into one of the most consequential ideas in ...

133.4 x 61 x 38.6 cm. (52.5 x 24 x 15.2 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

The story of modern kinetic art begins a century ago, when Marcel Duchamp thought to mount a bicycle wheel on a stool. He found it comforting to watch the turning wheel, and when he first displayed ...

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 ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

The Museum of Modern Art has an impressive Marcel Duchamp show right now, and Gagosian is showing him, too. What can one still say about him that hasn’t been said? Let’s see. I come to Duchamp with an ...

In 1912, a young Cubist painter, Marcel Duchamp, entered his painting, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. This was the preferred venue for exhibiting radical ...