An appeals court in Paris may soon have to actually answer the generally rhetorical question: But is it art? Pierre Pinoncelli was convicted of vandalizing one of the famous urinals signed by Dadaist ...

A court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp’s famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, rejecting the defendant’s contention that he had increased the value of the ...

A court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp’s famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, rejecting the defendant’s contention that he had increased the value of the ...

What, we wonder, would Peter Simple have had to say about Pierre Pinoncelli, the 77-year-old—what to call him? artist? provocateur? crank?—who at the Centre Pompidou recently took a hammer to the ...

Since his two attacks with a hammer against Marcel Duchamp's urinal in 1993 and again in 2006, the artist Pierre Pinoncelli is known worldwide for this iconoclastic and subversive act. Often ...

A Frenchman who attacked and damaged “Fountain,” a urinal declared a work of art by Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp, was ordered on Tuesday to pay a fine of $262,700. A Paris court also gave Pierre ...

A French man has been ordered to pay a large fine for cracking one of Marcel Duchamp's most famous works of art with a hammer. The man says Duchamp would have approved of his "performance art." A ...

A French Appeal Court ruled Friday that a man who attacked Marcel Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal with a hammer does not have to pay $260,000 US in damages. Pierre Pinoncelli, 78,chipped at Duchamp's ...

A 77-year-old Frenchman has been arrested for taking a hammer to one of the most celebrated pieces of 20th-century art ­ a factory-manufactured porcelain urinal first "found" and displayed by the ...

Pierre Pinoncelli, who is famous for his outrageous stunts, committed the act of self-mutilation at an art museum in the city of Cali on Sunday. He said he was paying homage to Ingrid Betancourt, a ...