No Place Does Duchamp Like Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the second stop of a major Marcel Duchamp exhibition that opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) before its finale at the Grand Palais in Paris.

The show, featuring more than 300 works by the pioneering Dadaist, Surrealist and founding father of conceptual art, draws on readymades in Philadelphia’s own collection, notably authorized replicas of his urinal, Fountain, and Bicycle Wheel.

The museum is also the permanent home of the artist’s final major work, the room-sized installation Étant donnés (1946–66), for which Duchamp left precise instructions for its display. The accompanying manual includes photographs, plans, drawings and step-by-step directions for dismantling the work in New York, transporting it and reassembling it in Philadelphia.

The exhibition opens to the public on October 10 and runs through January 31, 2027.