Marcel Duchamp | HOW TO SEE “Readymades” with MoMA curator Ann Temkin

One hundred years ago this month, Marcel Duchamp changed the art world forever by unveiling Fountain—a urinal presented as a "readymade" work of art. MoMA Chief Curator Ann Temkin explains how Duchamp forced us to rethink the role of art and the artist.

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[superfly]

Saw the Duchamp bike wheel with my old dad. He walked over and gave it a spin. I think he did the right thing, but I’m glad none of the guards spotted us. (Good thing it wasn’t the urinal)

[emmalichious]

Marcel is my great, great, great grandfather. I have been doing research on my family and all of this is so interesting. My grandfather is George Duchamp and it’s all so amazing.

[empithre]

"When I discovered ready-mades I thought to discourage aesthetics. In Neo-Dada they have taken my ready-mades and found aesthetic beauty in them. I threw the bottle-rack and the urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty"

[budtaylor]

The largest collection of art by Marcel Duchamp is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It's incredible. Also included are works by his siblings, artists as well.

[FedeVox]

As an art historian, a teacher of contemporary art and a big “fan” of Duchamp I want to thank you for this AMAZING video: it is just the perfect way to understand the immense contribution of Duchamp

[abyssssbmusic]

i kind of like how the bicycle wheel has in common with a unicycle, that it's a seat and a wheel, but without the function of the chair and without the function of the wheel

[wendirogers]

This is one of the best of the MoMA videos

[murraykriner]

The highlighted piece has long fascinated me from the time I first viewed it in a text book many years ago. I really appreciate your clear and utterly plain explanation of his work being more about the creative process from initial inception to the methodical placement of sundry everyday item assembled in a set manner. The biggest smile was your remarks about just the act of proclamation transforming it into a work that defies not only imagination but any criticisms as well. Would send a critic to a local neighborhood bar to question if they really knew Art at All. Brilliant.

[ap]

Duchamp was all about challenging thinking and redefining, rethinking the idea of art. His work was more an exercise of thinking rather than an exercise of craft. The artist as a person with thought processes. The people who cannot see that what he did is an art have a particular and rather traditional definition of art. What is art to you?

[msarassavargas]

when the question "why is it art" comes up. just the discussion if it makes it art. one of the reasons why i love duchamp and Dada

[jojovcpb]

I do that sometimes when I get really stoned. I just took a huge work of art. It was effortless and magnificent all simultaneously.

[intelligenceservices]

He wanted to take 'art' off it's high horse, mainly for himself I think, because although he spoke freely about his reasons, the public would only enshrine him as a precious and rare readymade himself.

[karinliane]

Thanks to introduce the. Ready made,
Madame. !
💯🕯️🌹♥️🌹🕯️💯

[rickmumma]

This is one of my favorite rooms at MoMA.

[idecantwellbarnes]

Thank you for this excellent talk. I love my virtual visits to MoMA.

[maxdoubled]

Woah. Yall are blowing my mind right now. Keep these videos coming. Yall are great!!!

[swicheroo]

What an unfortunate subtitle: How to see. The whole business of the avant garde art project, and specifically the Dada movement, is to unsee our ways of seeing.

[nanwilder]

Excuse me Ann, but a “collage” is a 2-Dimensional work on a flat substrate, like a painting. The Ready-mades are 3-Dimensional works, aka assemblages. Not collage, assemblage.
I have adored the “artist’s brain” of Marcel DuChamp since I first saw his Ready-mades in Art History books as a teenager, long ago... His intelligence and humor still shine for me, in a world where many, still, do not “get” him. Thank you for your presentation !

[fastfoodart]

love art. love dadaisme...love duchamp

[ktmcgoogle]

I love duchamp, such a unique take on art and the world