Duchamp's

In a general sense, the sometimes baffling works in this catalog are perhaps best appreciated in the context of Marcel Duchamp's signed urinal.

Jules Siegel: It's Art, But Is It a Book? Jules Siegel 2012

In a general sense, the sometimes baffling works in this catalog are perhaps best appreciated in the context of Marcel Duchamp's signed urinal.

Jules Siegel: It's Art, But Is It a Book? Jules Siegel 2012

Any museum-goer who has peeped through the eyeholes in the rough wooden-door façade of Marcel Duchamp's "Etant Donnés" 1946-66 and caught sight of that work's sprawling, naked, female mannequin will get a sense of what espying Eiko and Koma feels like.

In a Place of Dreams and Dreamers Robert Greskovic 2011

As I looked around the gallery walls, I found myself thinking about Paul Klee, about Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase," and about a whole range of late twentieth century American painters.

Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station Peter Clothier 2011

But unlike Duchamp's work, which might draw titters or guffaws when its bare lady is found lying on the underbrush of its setting, "Naked" presents itself as contemplative and quiet.

In a Place of Dreams and Dreamers Robert Greskovic 2011

The occasion was the opening of Duchamp's first American retrospective, in 1963, at the old Pasadena Art Museum.

When the West Coast Went Pop Peter Plagens 2011

In a recent phone conversation, she noted that toy pianos "fit well with an artistic sensibility that values ordinary, everyday objects, like Marcel Duchamp's ready-made art."

Artists Playing With Toys Stuart Isacoff 2011

Francis Picabia 1879-1953 was Duchamp's pal before Marcel made himself into a scandal.

The Good, the Bad and the Inspiring Peter Plagens 2012

In his studio, which takes up most of his home, Reed has hung a reproduction of Marcel Duchamp's 1915-23 "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even," a piece known more commonly as the Large Glass.

Paul Reed, the last of the Washington Color School, is still painting 2011

As I looked around the gallery walls, I found myself thinking about Paul Klee, about Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase," and about a whole range of late twentieth century American painters.

Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station Peter Clothier 2011