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 ...

Lors de l’exposition Dada au Centre Pompidou en 2006, Virgile Novarina avait lu dans la presse qu’un « individu », un « vandale », avait endommagé l’urinoir de Marcel Duchamp avec un marteau. Sans ...

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 ...

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 ...

What, we wonder, would Peter Simple have had to say about Pierre Pinoncelli, the 77-year-old—what to call him? artist? provocateur? crank?—who at the Centre Pompidou recently took a hammer to the ...

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 ...

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 77-year-old Frenchman who attacked and damaged a plain porcelain urinal that was declared a work of art by Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp has been fined 214,000 euros ($302,446). A Paris court also ...

Pierre Pinoncelli, who is famous for his outrageous stunts, committed the act of self-mutilation at an art museum in the city of Cali on Sunday. He said he was paying homage to Ingrid Betancourt, a ...

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 ...