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  • A MoMA Retrospective Proves Duchamp Was More Sincere Than He Seems

    The first rooms of MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp retrospective almost dare the visitor to find in his early paintings some hint of the artist’s future travesty of those mediums. The picture with which the show opens—a placid scene of the artist’s two older brothers, Gaston (Jacques Villon) and Raymond, engrossed in a game of chess—telegraphs Duchamp’s read more

    A MoMA Retrospective Proves Duchamp Was More Sincere Than He Seems