Duchamp eschewed labels, and his work was too conceptual for the Surrealists who were rooted in a fairly traditional pictorial aesthetic. Duchamp didn’t publis

Duchamp eschewed labels, and his work was too conceptual for the Surrealists who were rooted in a fairly traditional pictorial aesthetic. Duchamp didn’t publish almost any art in his last decades, but his posthumously unveiled final work is absolutely worth seeing in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It’s surprising and unique and hard to explain in words. (One day, centuries from now, I imagine/hope there will be a constant crowd in the museum just waiting for their turn to peek at the ancient Duchamp, like for Mona Lisa today…)