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Man Ray and Duchamp were collaborators and lifelong friends, none of which might have happened without a 1915 tennis match. An initial language barrier didn’t hold the artists back from a ...
Four finalists have been nominated for the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize: Xie Lei, Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabatté. The 25th edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize will be held at the ...
2025 is the right year to directly inquire about Duchamp’s significance in contemporary art. “Does Marcel Duchamp still matter and why?” was a question that many artists around the world, as ...
Left: Photograph by Alfred T. Palmer of Carnegie Steel Furnaces in 1941 (image via Wikimedia Commons); Center: Photo by Beatrice Wood of Louise Arensberg, Walter Arensberg, and Marcel Duchamp in ...
But of all the crazy things Eno has said — and is said to have done — none surpasses his story of allegedly peeing in Duchamp’s iconoclastic masterpiece. Eno had been fascinated with the ...
French artist, Marcel Duchamp, famous for his readymakes, turned chess games into Dadaist performance art. He turned the game into Dadaist performance art. Price Database. 23 June 2025.
To Duchamp, gender was no less of a malleable part of self-representation. Only the year before, he drew a mustache and goatee on a cheap postcard of the Mona Lisa.The appropriative work was ...
Alreadymade, its title inspired by Duchamp’s concept of the “readymade”—wherein an ordinary object is elevated to the status of a work of art—extends beyond mere attribution, prompting ...
The Duchamp Opera House's new owners, John and Mike LeBlanc, a father and son duo from St. Martinville had a connection to the building.
A long-running debate over the authorship of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain has recently been reignited by two British art historians. New research from Glyn Thompson, a former professor of art ...