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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marcel Duchamp’s prankster anti-art resonates a century after the Society of Independent Artists rejected his urinal sculpture titled "Fountain" in a New York City exhibition. The committee didn’t ...
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 ...
In April 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp created his most controversial work: a gleaming, porcelain urinal pockmarked with holes and inscribed with his pseudonym “R. Mutt” on the front. Duchamp’s work, ...
Art museums are my happy place. Growing up a 40-minute Metro ride away from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., I spent my childhood frequenting the hallowed hallways of Renwick Gallery, ...
In the spring of 1917, when Europe’s armies were mired in bloody stalemate, Marcel Duchamp, a young sculptor who had fled France to join the roiling New York art world, took a porcelain urinal, ...