When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it's been painted? A block of marble once it's been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), the answer was much more direct and far more radical ...

Marcel Duchamp inside the exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, with his artworks “Fountain” (1950, replica of lost 1917 original) and “Bicycle Wheel” (1951, ...

Only the bold believe themselves free from the old gambling adage ‘the house always wins’ and Marcel Duchamp was one such individual: never short of self-confidence and always eager to subvert the ...

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s creation of the iconic readymade work Fountain, an exhibition of Saâdane Afif’s The Fountain Archives opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris ...

It is 53 years since the last major US survey of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). So, despite his ubiquitous influence, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York this month is long ...

Marcel Duchamp redefined the word “art” with his Readymades. Now, nearly 100 years later, artists Bryan Cera and Scott Kildall have made it possible to reproduce one of the conceptual artist’s ...