135,000 objects from the Museum’s assortment of over 240,000 are available within the on-line collections database. A seminal second in this discussion occurred in 1917, when Dada artist Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal entitled Fountain to a public exhibition in New York City By this act, Duchamp put forth a brand new definition of what constitutes a work of art: he implied that it is sufficient for an artist to deem something art” and put it in a publicly accepted venue Implicit inside this gesture was a problem to the established art establishments—comparable to museums, exhibiting groups, and galleries—which … Read the rest