This stately Georgian home in Washington, D.C., is filled to the brim with art. But its owners may be hard-pressed to describe the artworks' visual qualities. "They're not beautiful," said Aaron ...

In November, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million. For some, Comedian, as Maurizio Cattelan’s creation was known, was a clever work of genius. David Galperin, head of contemporary art ...

In his 1995 book The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp, historian Jerrold E. Seigel wrote that, for the French sculptor and painter, “the absence of habit was an important condition of freedom.” Indeed ...

The show opens tomorrow and brings 100 portraits and self-portraits of the artist to the museum. The works, which include photographs, paintings and film, explore Duchamp’s legacy and the way it has ...

"Published on the occasion of the exhibitions: Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, May 6-August 16, 2009; Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master, Francis M. Naumann ...

A hundred years ago, in 1925, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) had long returned from New York back to Paris. His Readymade phase was pretty much over, just as he had abandoned painting for more than half a ...

Marcel Duchamp, “Boîte-en-valise (de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy)” (photo by Charles Duprat; courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac) Elena Filipovic, ‘The Apparently Marginal Activities of ...