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 ...

This month marks the centennial of the display of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s first Readymade, the sculptures that were created from everyday objects and would change the direction of art history. In ...

When Marcel Duchamp presented a urinal as art, he changed modern culture forever. This video explains the shock, controversy and lasting impact of Fountain, the work that challenged what art could be ...

When Marcel Duchamp went to purchase some plumbing at J.L. Mott Iron Works in 1917, he wasn't looking for anything special. He just wanted to buy a urinal, preferably portable and small enough to fit ...

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Word is leaking out, as it were, about how a simple art-historical fact can get you free admission to more than a dozen museums worldwide on April 9, courtesy of Dada master Marcel Duchamp. But you’ll ...

A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” — a porcelain urinal — with a hammer, police said. Duchamp’s 1917 piece — an ordinary white, porcelain urinal ...

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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, ...

Critics tend to declare that Marcel Duchamp's urinal, entitled “Fountain”, is the most important artwork of the 20th century. Yet its standing as a collectable object has always lagged behind its ...