Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...

This stately Georgian home in Washington, D.C., is filled to the brim with art. But its owners may be hard-pressed to describe the artworks' visual qualities. "They're not beautiful," said Aaron ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Association Marcel Duchamp, and the Centre Pompidou pooled their respective archives for the project. Portrait of Marcel Duchamp ...

Contemporary art always brings out visceral feelings about the definition of art — to some people, a wheel sitting on a stool could never be considered art. As a foil to this belief, Marcel Duchamp ...

Portable chess set invented by Marcel Duchamp (1943) (All images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise specified) BRIGHTON, UK — Swapping out pieces in a game of chess is only a smart move ...

Usually, I hate hearing inside jokes. They come off as self-important, obnoxious, and most importantly, not funny. Those who enjoy them most have been in on it from the start, and if you had to be ...

Visionary curator Walter Hopps (1932-2005) pulled Pasadena into the front ranks of contemporary art in the early 1960s with two landmark exhibitions at the old Pasadena Art Museum, now the Norton ...

Nothing could have been more brazenly heretical than Marcel Duchamp's shameless decision in 1917 to buy an ordinary urinal and display it as his own work of art. Nothing could have been more brazenly ...

I’m watching a flickery, tantalisingly brief video-clip of Marcel Duchamp being interviewed in 1966 for BBC Two’s Late Night Line-Up, by Joan Bakewell. It has the feel of an unlikely encounter: on the ...

“Can we try to define art? We have tried. Everybody has tried. In every century there is a new definition of art, meaning that there is no one essential that is good for all centuries.” Marcel Duchamp ...