An appeals court in Paris may soon have to actually answer the generally rhetorical question: But is it art? Pierre Pinoncelli was convicted of vandalizing one of the famous urinals signed by Dadaist ...

What makes a person want to vandalize a cherished artwork? The factors often vary greatly.

A court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp’s famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, rejecting the defendant’s contention that he had increased the value of the ...

Depuis ses deux attentats au marteau contre l’urinoir de Marcel Duchamp en 1993 puis en 2006, l’artiste Pierre Pinoncelli est connu dans le monde entier pour cet acte iconoclaste et subversif. Souvent ...

Jeudi 26 octobre, le film documentaire de Virgile Novarina, L’artiste à la phalange coupée, consacré à la vie de Pierre Pinoncelli, est diffusée sur les écrans du cinéma le Tahiti, à Gacé. C’est un ...

A court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp’s famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, rejecting the defendant’s contention that he had increased the value of the ...

A Frenchman who attacked and damaged “Fountain,” a urinal declared a work of art by Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp, was ordered on Tuesday to pay a fine of $262,700. A Paris court also gave Pierre ...

A French man has been ordered to pay a large fine for cracking one of Marcel Duchamp's most famous works of art with a hammer. The man says Duchamp would have approved of his "performance art." A ...

Depuis ses deux attentats au marteau contre l’urinoir de Marcel Duchamp en 1993 puis en 2006, l’artiste Pierre Pinoncelli est connu dans le monde entier pour cet acte iconoclaste et subversif. Souvent ...

Since his two attacks with a hammer against Marcel Duchamp's urinal in 1993 and again in 2006, the artist Pierre Pinoncelli is known worldwide for this iconoclastic and subversive act. Often ...