{"id":303720,"date":"2026-10-10T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303720\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:50:06","slug":"philadelphia-art-museum-hosts-marcel-duchamp-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303720\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Art Museum hosts Marcel Duchamp retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending decades disassembling the sanctity of the art objects, in the 1940s, Duchamp began quoting himself in his \u201cBox in a Valise.\u201d He made miniaturized versions of his more well-known pieces and assembled them into carrying cases that he thought of as portable museums. They were mostly given privately to friends and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>There are 10 \u201cBoxes in a Valise\u201d in the exhibition, which Affron says is the most ever assembled in one place.<\/p>\n<p>The PMA is the second of three stops for \u201cMarcel Duchamp.\u201d It has already had a run at MOMA, and a version will be at the Grand Palais in France next year.<\/p>\n<p>Co-curator Ann Temkin said generations of artists who came after Duchamp have been influenced by his ideas, even if they don\u2019t realize it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese artists, who could be in their 60s, who could be in their 20s, are like, \u2018Oh my god, everything I make and every way in which I approach my work is so focused on the legacy of Duchamp and yet these are things I\u2019m seeing, for the most part, for the first time.\u2019\u201d Temkin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcel Duchamp\u201d will be at the PMA until Jan. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending decades disassembling the sanctity of the art objects, in the 1940s, Duchamp began quoting himself in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-303720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}