News
Gagosian to Debut New Gallery With Duchamp’s “Readymades”
The exhibition will run concurrently with the artist's first United States retrospective in over 50 years at the Museum of Modern Art.
Marcel Duchamp
Interview
Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History
“The art world changed,” scholar Thierry de Duve told us on the occasion of MoMA’s new show. “Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is the message that brings us the news.”
Opinion
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
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.