Art
Deciphering Duchamp's Clues
The Turkish-American artist Serkan Özkaya and the novelist Augustus Rose discuss their fascinations with Duchampian detective work at Postmasters Gallery on Wednesday.
Marcel Duchamp
News
For Centennial of Duchamp’s “Fountain,” Some Museums Will Offer Free Admission with a Password
Dropping the right name could get you into a museum for free on Sunday, April 9.
Books
From Seminal Fluid to Sassy Scribbles: The "Non-Art" Works of Marcel Duchamp
Even after digesting this considerable amount of ostensibly transitory disclosure, Duchamp remains an unadulterated, irreverent enigma.
Art
The Power of Protest Art, from Goya to Polke
In Soulèvements, an ahistorical exhibition of art made for and about acts of protest, works either make their political agendas self-evident or embed them in their formal properties.
Art
Duchamp's Spinning Optical Experiments
In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lépine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day.
Art
Highlighting the Invisible Labor of Art Objects
The tension between design and art derives from the utility ascribed to the former vying with the elusiveness that characterizes the latter.
Art
A Mother Lode of a Show About Motherhood
MILAN — The most startling pairing in The Great Mother, an exhibition that tracks the iconography of motherhood in art and popular culture from 1900 to 2015, is a sculptural stand-off between Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte.
In Brief
Arkansas Tells Artist to Stop Putting Toilets in Her Yard
Nearly 100 years after Marcel Duchamp made "Fountain," bathroom plumbing fixtures are still way too edgy for Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Interview
A Chess Set in Homage to Marcel Duchamp, with Mustaches
Last year artists Scott Kildall and Bryan Cera collaborated on a project called "Readymake: Duchamp Chess Pieces," which reconstructed a chess set designed by Marcel Duchamp with a 3D printer.
Art
From Duchamp to Hipsters, the Art of Selling Air
Are you tired of your local air? If so, a bag of atmospheric gases from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, could be yours if you have thousands of dollars to burn.
Art
The Dada Catalogue Marcel Duchamp Designed to Be Thrown Away
For a 1953 Dada exhibition, Marcel Duchamp designed a one-page catalogue meant to be crumpled up and tossed in the trash.
Art
From Pulp to Pop, Seven Centuries of Book Art
PARIS — Pliure (meaning “fold” in French) is a book-based small show, tastefully curated by Paulo Pires do Vale, about the artistic metamorphosis of books (those folded paper things).