Understanding modern art requires you to go against your instincts and tell yourself that even though this supposed “sculpture” just looks like a urinal, there’s actually a lot more to it.

To protest what she sees as the growing pretentiousness of modern art, artist Lisa Levy plans to sit naked on a toilet in the middle of the Brooklyn Art Gallery for two days, and you can join her.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A humble porcelain urinal - reclining on its side, and marked with a false signature - has been named the world's most influential ...

A white gentlemen's urinal has been named the most influential modern art work of all time. Marcel Duchamp's Fountain came top of a poll of 500 art experts in the run-up to this year's Turner Prize ...

Alamy Fountain is a porcelain urinal, flipped on its back and signed ... Remove Fountain from the cluttered chessboard of modern art, and one would need to remove too a vast army of subsequent ...

LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A gentleman's urinal has been named the most influential modern art work of all time, the BBC reported Wednesday. Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" topped a poll of 500 art ...

The submission and rejection of Duchamp’s urinal is now regarded as one of the early turning points in the history of Modern art. Fountain is always cited as the source of conceptualism ...

His urinal is considered by many to be “the most influential piece of modern art.” “When you just look at the R. Mutt signature, it becomes meaningful in many, many ways," Thomas Girst ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Among the many records set at Christie’s astonishing $852.9m contemporary art sale in New York last week ...

“We musn’t [sic] feel ashamed to call out abstract modern art for precisely what ... exhibition directors by submitting a urinal as a work of art, challenging his colleagues to consider ...

An Australian modern art museum featured a lavish ... “The Ladies Lounge will become a toilet, a church and a school,” she told local newspaper the Mercury. One loophole Kaechele says she ...