Opinion
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
Marcel Duchamp
Podcast
Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little Secrets
Hrag Vartanian and author Eunsong Kim discuss the hidden power imbalances behind some of the most prominent pieces of 20th-century conceptual art.
News
Roosevelt’s Critique of "Nude Descending a Staircase" and Other Gems in Duchamp Archive Are Now Online
The new online archive hosts 18,000 digitized documents and almost 50,000 photographs related to the artist's life and work.
Art
The Hirshhorn Shows Off Its New Duchamp Collection
The Hirshhorn Museum, which previously had only one work by Duchamp, now ranks near the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art as holding the most prominent public collections of his work.
Books
An Art Historian’s Ode to His Mentors, Including Leo Steinberg and Beatrice Wood
Francis M. Naumann's Mentors is an accessible and richly detailed celebration of intense cross-generational exchanges.
Art
Eight Women Visual Artists Use Duchamp's Provocation as a Springboard
Marcel Duchamp's “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even” provides a provocative foundation for an exhibition of female artists who riff on the liminal spaces between ideas and events.
Books
Bringing Back from Obscurity a Jamaican Photographer Who Worked with Duchamp
Enacting a posthumous reassessment, the book Percy Rainford: Duchamp’s “Invisible” Photographer has poignantly rescued the neglected artist Percy Rainford from erasure.
Books
A New Book Probes Duchamp's Last Hours of Life
Duchamp's Last Day is a bravo performance capturing the ephemerality of life and the physicality of art.
Art
Imaging a City of Marcel Duchamp's Readymades
Have you ever accidentally walked into an occupied bathroom? That incredulous shock of embarrassment is precisely what the Swiss Institute's new exhibition conjures.
History
50 Years Ago Today, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage Played Chess
Spoiler alert: Cage lost … twice.
Books
Dada’s Holy Grail
Marcel Duchamp’s zines leapt from their lair to entertain artists and educate the public.
Art
Dalí and Duchamp’s Lasting Friendship, and the Art It Might’ve Inspired
For the first time, an exhibition explores these artists' friendship and the visual parallels within their distinct work.