The nominees for France’s biggest art prize, the Prix Marcel Duchamp, have been announced. The five artists shortlisted for the €90,000 prize, which includes €35,000 for the winner, are the Malagasy ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

Four finalists have been nominated for the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize: Xie Lei, Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabatté. The 25th edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize will be held at the Musée ...

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 ...

The shortlist for the prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s top contemporary art award, has been revealed. Four artists are vying for the €90,000 prize, to be announced later this year. The race ...

The famed nude chess match at Pasadena Art Museum is a story of art and vengence. In 1963, days after the opening of Marcel Duchamp's retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, Eve Babitz posed for the ...

In 1915, Marcel Duchamp bought a snow shovel at a hardware store in New York City. He inscribed his signature and the date on its wooden handle. Tonight, the fourth version of this classic “ready-made ...

Joan Bakewell looks back on her interview with legendary French artist and sculptor Marcel Duchamp, just months before his death in 1968. Show more Joan Bakewell remembers her interview with legendary ...

Choisne’s work, infused with mysticism, explores the connections between the personal and the universal and often addresses sociopolitical issues. Judges praised her winning installation as combining ...

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 ...