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 ...

Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...

PHILADELPHIA — Marcel Duchamp served for many years as both a prince and court jester to modern art in the 20th century. While creating some well-known works, he also punctured pretensions with jokes, ...

Around holiday time, you’ve got to envy the Norwegians. They’ve got real candles on the tree, gobbets of pork fat for Christmas dinner (these are euphemistically known as “ribs”) and aquavit to feed ...

Tucked away in a dark nook of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary wing lies one of the most confounding works of art of all time. It is perverse, bizarre, funny, poignant, sad, ...

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 ...

During the last two decades of his life, Marcel Duchamp appeared to have given up art for chess, publically claiming he had gone underground. But hidden in his New York apartment was the final, ...

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 ...

Modern art’s most influential trickster was hatched from the controversy surrounding “Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)” “Art questions are of absolutely no interest to me now,” said Marcel Duchamp ...

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 ...