Marcel Duchamp Gave The Mona Lisa A Mustache, Because Dada

Today in 1887, the birthday of Marcel Duchamp. He was both an accomplished artist and an artistic provocateur, like the time he released a “new” work of art that was a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, on which he had painted a mustache. Plus: in January 1917, Duchamp and some fellow artists and performers declared the creation of the Free and Independent Republic of Greenwich Village. When Marcel Duchamp Drew a Mustache & Goatee on the Mona Lisa (1919) (Open Culture)When Greenwich Village Artists Partied On Top of the Washington Square Arch (Untapped New York)Back our podcast on Patreon; if you want to draw a mustache on us while you do, go ahead