Barnett Newman’s 1946 painting Pagan Void stares you down at the start of “L’Âge atomique: Les artistes à l’épreuve de l’histoire” (The Atomic Age: Artists Put to the Test of History), a visual tour ...

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 ...

French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp is another great artist who had a pretty prominent funny bone. The quote "Humor is the only reason to live" is attributed to Duchamp, and he embodied it ...

The race for the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp is heating up as the shortlist for this year’s edition has just been announced. Four artists – Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen, Lionel Sabatté, and Xie Lei ...

From the signed urinal to "Nude Descending a Staircase", Marcel Duchamp continues to influence contemporary art. A new exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, shows the extent of the his ...

Fabricated in Germany at the end of the 19 th century, the models reminded him of abstract sculptures by artists such as Constantin Brancusi. They also called to mind Marcel Duchamp, whose artwork ...

Marcel Duchamp took a urinal out and just put it into the gallery and said, 'That's art.' So from that point on, I think artists started to realise that you didn't have to have a canvas ...

Haim Steinbach is an Israeli-born American artist known for his precise arrangements of found objects on shelves. Working within the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, Steinbach explores the role of the ...