What Happened to Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain,’ The World’s Most Famous Missing Urinal?
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In 1917 Marcel Duchamp created his famous ‘Fountain,’ a urinal that was also ‘readymade’ work of art. Reproductions might survive, but the original has long been lost.
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Almost exactly 100 years ago to the day, Marcel Duchamp conceived of a shocking work of art that packed some big ideas into a seemingly simple
