On February 28, 2021, the New York Landmark Preservation Commission approved the design and construction of a five-story family townhouse at 110 West 88th Street in the Central Park West Historical ...

Almost exactly 100 years ago to the day, Marcel Duchamp conceived of a shocking work of art that packed some big ideas into a seemingly simple porcelain package. The influence of Fountain remains ...

Marcel Duchamp has been very much in the news this year – and not just because 2017 was the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition of his most scandalous "readymade" sculpture, a mass-produced ...

Fountain (left), a urinal that Marcel Duchamp presented as art in 1917, as seen in a 2008 exhibition at Tate Modern in London. To its right is period publicity of the same era that presented ceramic ...

In 1990, musician-artist Brian Eno went to a plumbing store in New York and walked out with a couple of feet of clear plastic tubing. Back in his hotel room, he reinforced the tubing with galvanized ...

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 ...

An upturned urinal with the words ‘R. Mutt 1917’ written on it, Fountain (1917) marked a seminal moment in the history of Western art, with the act of declaring a found object to be an artwork ...

To set the tone, I am topping and tailing these thoughts with a fragment of writing I found buried in Duchamp’s notebooks. Originally, it appeared in The Box of 1914—an early collection of Duchampian ...

A classically structured and refreshingly straightforward documentary film, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible in fact does the impossible — temporarily taming the wild, revolutionary, subversive ...