This controversial sale has drawn comparisons to other groundbreaking works in art history, like Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (a porcelain urinal) and Damien Hirst’s shark preserved in formaldehyde.

Warhol’s best art comes straight out of the conceptual experiments of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp ... the way Duchamp’s urinal became the sculpture called Fountain. 6. Warhol’s four ...

In the Dada decade, Marcel Duchamp could shock people by exhibiting a urinal turned upside down and calling it Fountain. Seeing it for the first time today, hardly anvone would flinch—although a ...

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 ...

Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in February from a Palestinian group show at Palo Gallery to Takuro Kuwata at Salon 94. Art fans, here’s your bucket list of the standout ...

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Clockwise from top left: Bianca Bondi, courtesy the artist; Xie Lei, photo: Margot Montigny; Eva Nielsen, courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann; Lionel ...

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 ...

The quartet of sculptures include Colbert’s alter ego pop lobster in a series of guises, encased in a urinal, popping out of a Campbell’s Soup can, bedecked with sunflowers and festooned with flowers.

It resumed Wednesday morning as a “small sluggish lava flow,” and then increased into a fountain that appeared to be 200 feet (60 meters) high, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.