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 ...

A Frenchman who attacked and damaged “Fountain,” a urinal declared a work of art by Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp, was ordered on Tuesday to pay a fine of $262,700. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

FOUNTAIN OF INSPIRATION: Duchamp dared to sign a urinal and call it artSuccession Marcel Duchamp/Paris and DACS, London 2007 The new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern features three heavy hitters, ...

An appeals court in Paris may soon have to actually answer the generally rhetorical question: But is it art? Pierre Pinoncelli was convicted of vandalizing one of the famous urinals signed by Dadaist ...

Past time -- Marcel Duchamp's audience of artists -- Expressions of Dadaism -- Robert Motherwell and the Dada painters and poets -- Layers -- A clearer image -- The Dada strain -- An anti-Dada ...

"This box set contains facsimile editions of 'The Blind Man (Nos. 1 & 2) and 'rongwrong, ' seminal New York Dada magazines edited by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood in ...

It is amusing to speculate about what Marcel Duchamp, the doyen of Dada, would have made of his appearance in twenty-first-century Afghanistan. That happened as part of a cultural outreach program ...

It was April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who’d found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for ...

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 ...

The Dada movement that erupted throughout Europe alongside the First World War was a convulsive artistic response to a culture that had created the horrors of poison gas and trench warfare. And ...