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JUNE 28–JULY 6, 2008

[In 1915,] Arts and Decoration gives him “red hair, blue eyes, freckles…” while the Tribune reporter calls him “quite handsome, with blond, curly hair…” (The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service records for 1915 list Duchamp as five feet ten inches tall, with a fair complexion, brown hair, and “chestnut” eyes.)

—Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp

The Pantheon should be cut in half vertically, and the two halves set fifty centimeters apart.

—Tristan Tzara