Something about art disgusted MarcelDuchamp... The next year, Duchamp mounted a bicycle wheel onto an upside-down fork fixed to a wooden stool ... Duchamp left behind a legacy that people either love or loathe ... Duchamp played chess starting in childhood.
A painter who early on shifted into conceptual provocation with his ‘Readymades’—including, infamously, a urinal—the French artist gets his first retrospective in the U.S. in more than 50 years ... .
Duchamp was a transcontinental nomad, at home everywhere and nowhere, and inclined to “travel light,” according to his biographer, the late Calvin Tomkins... “Duchamp was a handsome Norman,” wrote Peggy Guggenheim in her memoir, Out of This Century.
Duchamp and Rauchemberg at Gagosian... The fact that these readymades are themselves replicas only further complicates and subverts conventional ideas of artistic integrity, originality and authorship that Duchamp spent his career dismantling.
After nearly four decades, the king of the art dealers says goodbye to his perch at 980 Madison—and moves to the ground floor in the same building. The first show? That big bang of conceptual art. MarcelDuchamp....