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, “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 ...

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

The artwork of Marcel Duchamp is getting ready to leave Philadelphia -- temporarily. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is bringing together its collection of work by the acclaimed French-American artist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern art’s most influential trickster was hatched from the controversy surrounding “Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)” “Art questions are of absolutely no interest to me now,” said Marcel Duchamp ...

Over the last three decades, Aaron and Barbara Levine have amassed an impressive melange of conceptual and minimalist art. But, they jokingly say, they loathe calling it a “collection.” “When you get ...

A classically structured and refreshingly straightforward documentary film, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible in fact does the impossible — temporarily taming the wild, revolutionary, subversive ...