In October 1961, Marcel Duchamp explained the inscriptions he attached to his readymades in the lecture “Apropos of ‘Readymades’”: “The sentence instead of describing the object like a title was meant ...

The French artist Marcel Duchamp is widely known for his readymades. Even those who don’t know who Duchamp is probably know about his work called The Fountain. However, his artistic journey ...

The race for the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp is heating up as the shortlist for this year’s edition has just been announced.

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 ...

Marcel Duchamp left a lasting mark on art history ... s influence if we look at the repetitive positions. Duchamp’s ...

This year, for the first time since the creation of the prize in 2000, the exhibition will not be held at the Centre Pompidou ...

¹ It was six months after Marcel Duchamp had left for America ... Duchamp drawings and paintings (from Henri-Pierre Roché), and a collector of readymade replicas and Duchamp ephemera. “Much of it hasn ...

Exhibition 'celebrates the iconography and symbolism of breasts', with works by Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Duchamp and Laure Prouvost The Duchamp research portal uses archival ...

Marcel Duchamp, the outstandingly influential ... Among Duchamps’ hallmark inventions, as well as a key influence on contemporary art was his concept of the readymade object. He created these out of ...

One of the most famous examples is Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," an inverted urinal simply signed "R. Mutt," which he argued elevated the otherwise prosaic object into a "readymade" sculpture.

A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement ...