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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The French-born artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) stirred controversy with his provocative pieces that questioned the very concept ...

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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 ...

Marcel Duchamp, “The Green Box,” 1934, gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Cathy Craver, Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society, ...

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 ...

39.4 x 34.9 x 6.7 cm. (15.5 x 13.7 x 2.6 in.) Arturo Schwartz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1970, no. 311a, pp. 511-13 Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp, The Box in a Valise: de ou par ...

WASHINGTON - Over several decades in the middle of the past century, scholars, critics and knowledgeable art lovers realized that the wellsprings of modern art did not all flow from Picasso. Equal in ...

When Visual Artists Make Music Musical works by Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein and Laurie Anderson all feature in an exhibition in Vienna that explores intersections between two art forms.

Marcel Duchamp, “Boîte-en-valise (de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy)” (photo by Charles Duprat; courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac) Elena Filipovic, ‘The Apparently Marginal Activities of ...

When the video game Bloodborne dropped players into the deep end and ignored their cries for help, it joined a tradition of challenging work that outraged audiences. By Ethan Davison The padlock-style ...