Damien Hirst’s shark changed my life. Now he has taken a chainsaw to his glorious past
Jonathan Jones
In creating sculptures backdated to the days when his art electrified the world, the former YBA has cast doubt on his youthful legacy and destroyed our belief in his creative future
October 2023
‘This was his revenge on art’: is Marcel Duchamp’s greatest work a fake?
‘Fountain’, by the father of conceptualism, is seen as a pinnacle of 20th-century art – but new evidence casts doubt on its authorship
September 2023
Cultural prescription
New horizons: music, art, books and more to get out of a rut
From hit novels by late bloomers to artists turned chess masters, our critics select culture that revels in reinvention
October 2022
The Guardian view on Damien Hirst’s NFTs: posing a burning question
Editorial: The artist is not alone in looking to cash in on content-free art. Only time will separate the stunts from the lasting innovations
June 2022
Duchamp’s Fountain was not the work of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Letters: The claim that the poet and artist created the 20th century’s most famous work of conceptual art of has been discredited, says Dawn Adès
May 2022
‘Sleep with everyone! Be embarrassing!’ – the dada baroness who shocked society
She wore soup-can bras, made an explicit film with Man Ray – and may have inspired Marcel Duchamp’s upturned urinal. We explore a thrilling show celebrating the pacy life of ‘The Baroness’
February 2021
'Call Andy Warhol': Christo diary extracts published to shed light on artist's life
Diaries of artist who wrapped Pont Neuf and Berlin Reichstag reveal illustrious circle of New York friends
November 2020
Madrid surrealism show offers escape from pandemic reality
Exhibition explores how surrealist movement influenced culture and design in 20th century
April 2020
Lockdown culture
Make a masterpiece at home – with Yoko Ono and a tin of tuna
Is making a sandwich art? What about stacking furniture? Our writer gets through quarantine by obeying the commands of ‘instructional artists’ from Yoko Ono to her modern-day successors
April 2019
Duchamp’s Fountain and the feminist avant garde in New York
Letters: Prof Dawn Ades pours cold water on the suggestion that Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was the artist’s accomplice
March 2019
A woman in the men's room: when will the art world recognise the real artist behind Duchamp's Fountain?
Evidence suggests the famous urinal Fountain, attributed to Marcel Duchamp, was actually created by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Why haven’t we heard of her, asks Siri Hustvedt
January 2018
Why would Trump turn down a golden toilet? Because he already has one
Jonathan Jones
The 18-karat loo offered to the US president by the Guggenheim is a modern masterpiece – as the 100,000 people who have used it can testify. The White House should plumb it in pronto
December 2017
Art Weekly newsletter
Siberian warriors and a Christmas cracker of surrealist fun – the week in art
Best culture 2017
Jonathan Jones's top 10 art exhibitions of 2017
October 2017
Marcel Duchamp's moustachioed Mona Lisa sells for $750,000
Duchamp reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci’s classic painting includes a beard and moustache
Anatomy of an artwork
Examining the plumbing of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, 1917
Initially dismissed as ‘immoral’, the artist’s bold work challenged notions of what art could be, shifting it from new physical creations to moulding ideas
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The Chapmans do Goya, Gary Hume keeps it banal and the Tate swings – the week in art
The ten best things to do this week
The 10 best things to do this week: Lubaina Himid, Frieze and St Vincent
Dalí/Duchamp review – surreal bromance between art's odd couple
September 2017
Autumn arts preview 2017
Dalí, Duchamp, Basquiat and beards: the best art of autumn 2017
Modigliani seduces, the Turner hits Hull, Rebecca Warren shakes up St Ives – and Gilbert and George have a close shave with facial hair – we pick the season’s most eye-popping art exhibitions
