Marcel DuChamp, Beatrice Wood & one other I can't remember began The DaDa Movement. Beatrice Wood lived to be over a 100 yrs old. She was a renowned ceramist, loved Trader Joe chocolates & young men. She wore saris with tons of silver jewelery. I met her in the mid-90s in Ojai, CA. Her studio is still there & worth the visit! Fascinating woman!!

Nude Descending A Staircase is a fascinating painting to look at. This story reminds me that art takes many different forms.

Thank you to these generous people who share their beloved art collection and thoughts with the world : )

More money than sense

If the artist calls it art, then its art. No exceptions. Thanks for pushing the boundaries Marcel. One of the most important artists ever. RIP Rrose Selavy

"He's a personal injuring lawyer and she's a former school teacher and mother of three." Gathering he not a father of 3.

I love her glasses - 2 different lens shapes.

Art is one of the world’s biggest hustles. Watch The Price Of Everything, it’s ridiculous! 🖼

it is worth what some sucker will pay for it

We can clearly see the parallels between Duchamp and NFTs. Both are not art.

I like that ladies glasses, it's so awesome.

If you want to consider a urinal a work of art and give the credit to the ceramic maker

The Emperor has no clothes.......

He opened a door to con artists. He started anti art movement…The guy who sells blank canvases as work of art is an example…

Doesn’t wanna be called a collector but admits she has a collection.

You buy what you can afford...and apparently that's a lot. Is it art? That's exactly the question Duchamp was asking.

Art is more than technique or medium Intentions are another aspect What may appear as vandalism on first blush Becomes creative inference with the intention

It’s a critique of the art market. It’s the emperor’s new clothes. It wasn’t meant to be “world changing”. But when there’s money to be made anything is everything unless you got no money then nothing is everything

She's a mother of three. How many is *he* a father of? In other words, why was her motherhood status relevant to recounting her résumé in this piece, but not his fatherhood status? I'm sure it wasn't meant to be nefarious, but why do we maintain this weird double standard in 2022?

Cashing in on controversy.

The art of the con... He knew he could part those idiots with a lot of money.

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The story of the artist and the art itself was interesting. The collectors came across as entitled and snobbish. Yes, they are collectors.

many years ago, when i was 19 i found a sculpture signed M. Duchamp and dated 1904 - when Duchamp was only 16. It even has a sticker on it from the school he was at in 1904 - Ecole Bossuet [i think]. it was a long time ago. I got to bring it to Philadelphia where i met Teeny Duchamp, Anne d'Harnencort [?], and Pontus Hulton who had just flown in from Paris. I'm pretty sure it's an interesting fake, but how many 19 yr olds got that experience? i'm blessed.

I think the museum show is more about the Levines than it is about Duchamp. As a traditional artist, I admit my prejudice, but seriously, even Duchamp put the urinal in a show as a goof, a statement that anything can be "art" if it's put on a pedestal. Incidentally, this urinal isn't the original. That was stolen, and replaced, I think more than once..

Why is my birthday on their wall? Lol

DuChamp was having a go at the art market and criticizing the rise of what constitutes “art”, the Levine’s recognize this nonsensical interpretation of self expression but what’s messed up is that the art market ate it all up and considers it art. They didn’t understand satire at the time and I’m sure they recognize it now but aren’t willing to part with the money it produces.

Readymade = Dada and Surrealist definition by context and research done by Cheyla Bazan = human design particularly within the context of an or to emphasize "the" object itself. In other words, it can be ambiguous but within the movement itself, it refers to object made ready to be used. In essence Lolitas. Toilet readymade symbolizes = 9 = 6 (69)(Gemini energy) Ref> Amanamonesia - Chairlift ; also urinal in shape of penis = male urinal therefore male peninsula pissing on readymades which means most males disregarding women. I respect Duchamp in ways I can't explain or comprehend because if it weren't for his art I wouldn't be able to understand the minds, or mentality and perception of men, therefore allowing me to understand the male energy and how it itself is programmed and created. As well as understand how and what they think which makes it easy to identify who's who too. Most of his work consisted of readymades and so much symbolism of the destruction of the opposite sex, much of which is very degrading to the 'bride' which is to assume is the opposite sex if not the vulnerable as seen in 'The bride being stripped by her Bachelorettes". The production itself is questionable and makes no sense as to why it's regarded as art but it's the message and the movement itself that speaks value.

Duchamp's ambiguous rationality in presentational normalcy promulgates a frequency of intellectual vortices, each commingling with the inherency of existence and quantification.

Why bother with art school when you can just rip a urinal out of the nearest men's room, sign it and put it in a gallery?

A fool is easily parted from her money. Most of the art world knows that fact quite well. 😂

🤨🤔???? "WHAT ABOUT MY ART work"!?

Art is what you think. I think this isn’t art, but Not My Money.

It appears the woman whose home was profiled at the outset of this video has taken a liking of applying eyebrows in the style of Nancy Pelosi.

His whole thing was violating and mocking all traditional art.

A collection of junk. What a waste of money!

The famous urinal is the "ready made" work of Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven - the signature R. Mutt has been traced back to her, not Duchamp.

on andy warhol, he is a great colorists. so are most children

He is a very clever CON artist

Only in America can someone accumulate this level of wealth from being an ambulance chasing lawyer. Not impressed. Absurd self-congratulatory nonsense for one-percenters.

Junk

Don’t trip over the steaming piles of pretentiousness.

People ought to have a test of their emotional make-up before they're allowed to purchase and walk out the door with art.

It’s not art if it has no esthetic value.

sorry, I see junk. You're damned lucky anybody bought into what you were selling. I would have failed art with that trash.