🎭 Culture May 4, 2026 · Hakim Bishara

I’ve Got the Post-Duchamp Blues

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I’ve Got the Post-Duchamp Blues
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In 1917, Marcel Duchamp turned a urinal on its head and called it art. With that, he earned his place in the canon as the great usurper of artistic norms, the enemy of yesteryear’s tastemakers, the banisher of everything that came before him, and the godfather of art provocateurs. What is art? After Duchamp, the answer became: It’s whatever you want it to be.A century later, we’ve kissed our attention spans goodbye, welcomed microplastics into our bloodstreams, and surr

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