(Part of Marcel Duchamp’s letter to his sister,
dated April 11, 1917, New York)
ink jet print
Cheryl Meeker 2019
“… The Independents opened here with enormous success.
A female friend of mine, using a male pseudonym, Richard
Mutt, submitted a porcelain urinal as a sculpture. It wasn’t at
all indecent. No reason to refuse it. The committee decided to
refuse to exhibit this thing. I handed in my resignation and it’ll
be a juicy piece of gossip…”