An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even before he first arrived in New York City for what became decades of painting, conceiving, chess-playing and love-making — though not always in that order.
John Strausbaugh, the author of the new Duchamp Takes New York, published just ahead of MOMA’s major new exhibition of the artist’s work, joins Amy Sohn and guest host Brian Berger for a wide-ranging discussion of an artist’s life in the Big Apple’s old San Juan Hill, and much more.