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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp inside the exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961.

Until June 27
980 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10075

Change is afoot at Gagosian’s New York headquarters. After spending over 35 years at 980 Madison Avenue, the gallery moves to a new location on the ground floor. To christen the space, an inaugural exhibition centers on the pioneering Marcel Duchamp. While many works from the Dadaist master have been lost or destroyed, the exhibition pulls together the 1964 readymades Duchamp created with the Italian gallerist Arturo Schwarz. The works are important, and include Roue de bicyclette—the only example that’s not in the collection of a major institution—and, of course, Fountain. While the works are re-creations, they speak to Duchamp’s legacy, the way he launched art into the conceptual realm. “It all started with Duchamp,” says Larry Gagosian. The exhibition runs concurrently with the first career retrospective of the artist since 1973 at MoMA. —Maggie Turner