Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1
020.7887.8888
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, Courtesy Tate Modern, © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP Paris, and DACS, London
- When
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21 Feb 2008 – 26 May 2008
Mondays–Thursdays (10am–6pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (10am–10pm)
Sundays (10am–6pm)
- Where
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Tube: Blackfriars, Southwark
- Price
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£11 / £9 concessions
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It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively — exhibited together. The revolutionary trio first met at a café during WWI and helped found Dada, the art movement that they named after the sound of a child's nonsensical babble. Duchamp's Fountain (a signed ceramic urinal) is the most famous example of their provocative work, but Ray's surreal nudes and Picabia's avant-garde writings are equally stirring. As the three might have hoped, their work continues to spark controversy to this day.
