Marcel Duchamp means different things to different people. To some, he fathered the readymade, to others, he turned the role of the artist on its head. To Willem de Kooning in 1951, he was a ‘one-man ...

The acclaimed Swiss visual artist and writer Daniel Spoerri died on November 6 at the age of 94. We look at his life and ...

After a tense week of competition and a food fight among the Surrealists, which contestants will advance to the next round of the Great Artists’ Bake Off?

Hrag Vartanian and author Eunsong Kim discuss the hidden power imbalances behind some of the most prominent pieces of ...

Maurizio Cattelan’s 'Comedian' was purchased by crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun at a Sotheby’s contemporary auction in New ...

The French artist Marcel Duchamp is widely known for his readymades. Even those who don’t know who Duchamp is probably know ...

Everyone knows what collecting is. We know it from childhood: stones, shells, stickers… Artists and designers, too, are fascinated by things and like to experiment with them.

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 ...

Exhibition 'celebrates the iconography and symbolism of breasts', with works by Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Duchamp and Laure Prouvost The Duchamp research portal uses archival ...

The work of two painters, Marcel Duchamp's cubist Nude Descending a Staircase and Henri Matisse's unconventional Blue Nude, draw particular condemnation -- both painters are attacked in the press ...