Dalí/Duchamp review – surreal bromance between art's odd couple
Royal Academy, London
With their dirty jokes, sly puns and decadent eroticism, these subversive provocateurs have more in common than you might think – but there’s no doubt who was the greater artistIn a note on a piece of scrap paper, Marcel Duchamp explained why he adopted the name Rrose Sélavy for his female alter ego, who gazes out from a sultry black and white photo taken in the 1920s. The name of his drag persona is, he explains, “an easy pun”. Rrose Sé
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