What controversial act was performed on a famous sculpture purely to pay homage to another surrealist artist who gave up his career to play chess?

zbeckabee

Most likely we are talking about Marcel Duchamp but that is as far as I have gotten. May 26 06, 8:04 AM

lanfranco

I expect this is Cornelia Parker's string-wrapping of Rodin's "The Kiss" a few years ago, an interesting reference to one of Duchamp's own projects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Rodin_sculpture) May 26 06, 5:28 PM

peasypod

Yes, indeedy Miss Frankie, and the perfect link, too. I was researching an interesting connection to the Tate via the Stuckist realm and its intriguing yearly events concerning the Turner Prize, and stumbled on this one. May 26 06, 5:56 PM

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