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 ...

MONA Lisa with mustache? Check. Bicycle wheel on stool? Got it. Autographed urinal? You bet. Marcel Duchamp and gang are back in what’s bound to be the biggest museum blockbuster this summer: “Dada,” ...

A French man has been ordered to pay a large fine for cracking one of Marcel Duchamp's most famous works of art with a hammer. The man says Duchamp would have approved of his "performance art." A ...

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For a 1953 Dada exhibition, Marcel Duchamp designed a one-page catalogue meant to be crumpled up and tossed in the trash. Marcel Duchamp, “Dada 1916–1923 / Sidney Janis” (1953) (all images courtesy ...

Contemporary art always brings out visceral feelings about the definition of art — to some people, a wheel sitting on a stool could never be considered art. As a foil to this belief, Marcel Duchamp ...

Dada artist Marcel Duchamp put a urinal on a gallery wall and it was art. In a piece he called “L.H.O.O.Q.,” a French pun on the phrase “She has a hot behind,” Duchamp drew a mustache and goatee on a ...

Whenever a new school of painting and sculpture arises, somebody is bound to ask, "but is it art?" Almost a century later, you can still find people asking that question at Washington, D.C.'s National ...

“Can we try to define art? We have tried. Everybody has tried. In every century there is a new definition of art, meaning that there is no one essential that is good for all centuries.” Marcel Duchamp ...