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 ...

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 ...

One of the most controversial artworks sparking debates over authorship, and even inspiring numerous unauthorized replicas produced by artists, craftsmen, and commercial manufacturers is Marcel ...

PARIS – A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” – a porcelain urinal – with a hammer, police said. Duchamp’s 1917 piece – an ordinary white, porcelain ...

A photograph shared on social media in March 2024 showed a real urinal for women. The photograph was authentic and it depicted a real object. However, the urinal was part of an art installation. There ...

A Frenchman who attacked and damaged “Fountain,” a urinal declared a work of art by Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp, was ordered on Tuesday to pay a fine of $262,700. A Paris court also gave Pierre ...

What, we wonder, would Peter Simple have had to say about Pierre Pinoncelli, the 77-year-old—what to call him? artist? provocateur? crank?—who at the Centre Pompidou recently took a hammer to the ...