In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lépine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day. In between a stand of instant vegetable ...
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 ...
Marcel Duchamp, “À propos de jeune soeur” (1911) oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / Art ...
A few years ago, speaking before a seminar on contemporary aesthetics in Houston, Marcel Duchamp proposed a somewhat surprising definition of the spectator’s role in that mysterious process known as ...