Museums take a loo break to celebrate Duchamp Fountain centenary

This Sunday, 9 April, museums around the world, from Kyoto to Jerusalem to New York, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the most influential artwork of all time (according to a 2004 poll of 500 art experts): Marcel Duchamps ready-made, Fountain, a porcelain urinal with no intervention but the signature R. Mutt 1917. The date is the centenary of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York, which rejected Fountainsubmitted under the pseudonym Richard Mutt by