On February 28, 2021, the New York Landmark Preservation Commission approved the design and construction of a five-story family townhouse at 110 West 88th Street in the Central Park West Historical ...
He acquired a great patron in Walter Arensberg and made good friends with Man Ray, Florine Stettheimer (whom Andy Warhol ...
Marcel Duchamp has been very much in the news this year – and not just because 2017 was the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition of his most scandalous "readymade" sculpture, a mass-produced ...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s creation of the iconic readymade work Fountain, an exhibition of Saâdane Afif’s The Fountain Archives opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris ...
To set the tone, I am topping and tailing these thoughts with a fragment of writing I found buried in Duchamp’s notebooks. Originally, it appeared in The Box of 1914—an early collection of Duchampian ...
An upturned urinal with the words ‘R. Mutt 1917’ written on it, Fountain (1917) marked a seminal moment in the history of Western art, with the act of declaring a found object to be an artwork ...
When Marcel Duchamp went to purchase some plumbing at J.L. Mott Iron Works in 1917, he wasn't looking for anything special. He just wanted to buy a urinal, preferably portable and small enough to fit ...