So, in honor of the great painter, sculptor and writer, we have a preview of some of such facts, courtesy of publisher Thames & Hudson. Behold, 9 things you didn't about Marcel Duchamp.

A French Appeal Court ruled Friday that a man who attacked Marcel Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal with a hammer does not have to pay $260,000 US in damages.

A 77-year-old man is being held by police after he allegedly attacked 'Fountain,' French artist Marcel Duchamp's famed urinal artwork.

Carroll Janis, 'Marcel Duchamp Curates Dada', in Art in America Part 6 (June-July 2006) 152-155, 215 (ill.). The author recalls a legendary exhibition of international Dada a half century ago, ...

It is amusing to speculate about what Marcel Duchamp, the doyen of Dada, would have made of his appearance in twenty-first-century Afghanistan. That happened as part of a cultural outreach program ...

Surrounded by dozens of Dada works, however, as it now is at MoMA, its radicalism gets underlined. American punters famously got all riled up at Duchamp’s Bride Descending the Staircase.

Some Aesthetic Decisions: A Centennial Celebration of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (Skira) is the catalogue of an exhibition of the same name that was up for much of last year at the NSU Art Museum ...

Carroll Janis, 'Marcel Duchamp Curates Dada', in Art in America Part 6 (June-July 2006) 152-155, 215 (ill.). The author recalls a legendary exhibition of international Dada a half century ago, ...

‘Marcel Duchamp’: ‘Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage’ Reproductions and jokey reimaginings of Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” are on view at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art.