On February 28, 2021, the New York Landmark Preservation Commission approved the design and construction of a five-story family townhouse at 110 West 88th Street in the Central Park West Historical ...

This month marks the centennial of the display of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s first Readymade, the sculptures that were created from everyday objects and would change the direction of art history. In ...

In the spring of 1917, when Europe’s armies were mired in bloody stalemate, Marcel Duchamp, a young sculptor who had fled France to join the roiling New York art world, took a porcelain urinal, ...

In April 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp created his most controversial work: a gleaming, porcelain urinal pockmarked with holes and inscribed with his pseudonym “R. Mutt” on the front. Duchamp’s work, ...

In 1990, musician-artist Brian Eno went to a plumbing store in New York and walked out with a couple of feet of clear plastic tubing. Back in his hotel room, he reinforced the tubing with galvanized ...

An appeals court in Paris may soon have to actually answer the generally rhetorical question: But is it art? Pierre Pinoncelli was convicted of vandalizing one of the famous urinals signed by Dadaist ...

The White House Renovation Is Underway. Next Up, a Presidential Yacht NYU Law School Clinic Attempting to Obtain Copyright for a Forest That Second Trump-Putin Summit ...

A court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp’s famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, rejecting the defendant’s contention that he had increased the value of the ...

A white gentlemen's urinal has been named the most influential modern art work of all time. Marcel Duchamp's Fountain came top of a poll of 500 art experts in the run-up to this year's Turner Prize ...