Philadelphia Museum of Art · Fairmount / Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Marcel Duchamp

Em cartaz10 de outubro de 2026 – 31 de janeiro de 2027·$ 30

The first North American Duchamp retrospective in over fifty years: more than 300 works across six decades, from painting and sculpture to film, photography and the readymades.

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Philadelphia holds the world's largest repository of Duchamp's work. This retrospective, the first in more than 50 years, arrives from New York with more than 300 works.

Seven galleries run chronologically, from teenage sketches of his sisters to a 1966 screen test for Andy Warhol. After Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), the rooms turn into what WHYY called a curated attic: a birdcage of marble cubes made to look like sugar, snow shovels, several urinals. Most original readymades were discarded, so these are copies Duchamp certified decades later. If you ran up the Rocky steps, his most famous painting is of someone sensibly walking back down.

Carrie Rickey in Philadelphia Magazine called it "a stellar exhibition". After a counterintuitive detour past the show's gift shop, the route sends you to The Large Glass and Étant donnés in galleries 281 to 283, where you look through two peepholes in a wooden door. Tickets are $35 with general admission, timed in one-hour slots. The museum suggests two hours with queuing.

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Box in a Valise reúne 69 réplicas em miniatura de obras do próprio Duchamp numa única mala. Mais de 300 obras vão de Nude Descending a Staircase a Fountain e conduzem, depois, a The Large Glass, nas galerias permanentes.

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Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)
His 1912 "static representation of movement", lampooned in 1913 as "an explosion in a shingle mill", hangs here with its rarely shown first and third versions.
Fountain
A porcelain urinal, here the 1950 replica of the lost 1917 original.
L.H.O.O.Q.
The Mona Lisa with a moustache and beard added, from 1919.
Box in a Valise
Ten of his cases of miniature replicas and reproductions of his own work, portable museums, which co-curator Matthew Affron says is the most ever assembled in one place.
The six-foot optical machine
In the later rooms, a motorized optical illusion machine six feet tall spins to life for five minutes every day at 11am and 3:30pm.