Portable chess set invented by Marcel Duchamp (1943) (All images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise specified) BRIGHTON, UK — Swapping out pieces in a game of chess is only a smart move ...

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 ...

Artist and sculptor Marcel Duchamp might be most famous for his Modernist painting Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2, but his true passion may have been chess. After retiring to pursue an almost monk ...

Last year artists Scott Kildall and Bryan Cera collaborated on a project called "Readymake: Duchamp Chess Pieces," which reconstructed a chess set designed by Marcel Duchamp with a 3D printer. The ...

BRIGHTON, UK — Swapping out pieces in a game of chess is only a smart move provided you hold the most on the board, or at least the strongest position. But a new show at the Barbican in London ...

Marcel Duchamp redefined the word “art” with his Readymades. Now, nearly 100 years later, artists Bryan Cera and Scott Kildall have made it possible to reproduce one of the conceptual artist’s ...

California’s surreal 1960s truly began one Los Angeles morning in '63, when pioneering dadaist Marcel Duchamp met stark naked Eve Babitz. Duchamp had by then semiretired from art to play chess. Babitz ...

Conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp was known for his "readymades," which declared everyday objects to be works of art -- most notably "Fountain," a public urinal on a pedestal. Duchamp was also ...

In 2014, Scott Kildall and Bryan Cera, both 3D-fabrication artists in the United States, gave the world something they considered a gift and homage: a re-creation of Marcel Duchamp’s personal ...