Marcel Duchamp means different things to different people. To some, he fathered the readymade, to others, he turned the role of the artist on its head. To Willem de Kooning in 1951, he was a ‘one-man ...

From the signed urinal to "Nude Descending a Staircase", Marcel Duchamp continues to influence contemporary art. A new exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, shows the extent of the his ...

I admit it, I was wrong. When I said a couple of weeks ago that for the past century artists have failed to outwit and outdo Marcel Duchamp (the French conceptual artist who placed a urinal in a ...