In November, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million. For some, Comedian, as Maurizio Cattelan’s creation was ...

The readymade, “Fountain” attributed to Marcel Duchamp from 1917. Photo by Alfred Stieglitz, in public domain from Wikimedia Commons. June 14 2021 10 min read Share. Tweet Share Share Email Copy.

In 1917 Marcel Duchamp created his famous ‘Fountain,’ a urinal that was also ‘readymade’ work of art. Reproductions might survive, but the original has long been lost.

The US will get its first Marcel Duchamp retrospective in more than half a century next year, in what is already poised to be ...

Contrary to popular belief, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain was not actually seen in the First Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York City, which opened 100 years ago this Monday ...

AMES, Iowa – The fact that an ordinary urinal could have a profound impact on the art world may sound preposterous, but the influence of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” is undeniable, says Justin Remes, ...

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, (1917). Photo: Courtesy of Tate. This thesis was strongly disputed in a pair of articles published in Burlington Magazine in 2019 by Dawn Adès and Bradley Bailey.

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, (1917). Courtesy of Tate. His reaction wasn’t dissimilar from that of Duchamp’s contemporaries. The board of the Society of Independent Artists, to which Fountain was ...

ChatGPT to Saâdane Afif: “Marcel Duchamp still matters because Fountain, 1917, turned the agony of artistic tradition on its butt, challenging the way capitalism endlessly repackages creativity ...

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain came top of a poll of 500 art experts in the run-up to this year's Turner Prize which takes place on Monday. Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) was second, with Andy ...