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 ...

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 Paris 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 ...

A court in Paris 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 ...