At the tail end of the 1960s, four giants of the New York avant-garde fell under the spell of the great French artist Marcel Duchamp. The results caused shockwaves. In the runup to a new Barbican exhibition, Judith Mackrell marvels at an explosion of creativity In February 1968, the avant-garde legend Marcel Duchamp hosted an informal dinner in New York for a group of local artists. Among them were composer John Cage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PM on January 6, 2013