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 ...

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

Marcel Duchamp means different things to different people. To some, he fathered the readymade, to others, he turned the role of the artist on its head. To Willem de Kooning in 1951, he was a ‘one-man ...

Portable chess set invented by Marcel Duchamp (1943) (All images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise specified) BRIGHTON, UK — Swapping out pieces in a game of chess is only a smart move ...

Usually, I hate hearing inside jokes. They come off as self-important, obnoxious, and most importantly, not funny. Those who enjoy them most have been in on it from the start, and if you had to be ...

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, ...

The career of Marcel Duchamp offers a rare instance of chaos theory as applied to the history of art. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been foreseen ...

Introduction. Drawing on art and artists -- 1. Critiques of the ocular : Duchamp and Paris Dada -- 2. The spectacle of film : Duchamp and Dada experiments -- 3. Endgame strategies : art, chess, and ...

Nothing could have been more brazenly heretical than Marcel Duchamp's shameless decision in 1917 to buy an ordinary urinal and display it as his own work of art. Nothing could have been more brazenly ...