In this video [2:28] learn how Marcel Duchamp re-conceived a standard unit of measure. Duchamp decided, "Painting is dead. I'm going to turn to different things." 1913 was the year that Duchamp made his first ready made by putting an...

In this video [3:28] Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt brings us into his NYC studio. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.