Marcel Duchamp

From 1964 to 1965, Calvin Tomkins spent several afternoons in Marcel Duchamp's apartment on West 10th Street in New York City. The interview was casual yet insightful, as the artist reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and surprising as life itself. That interview has never been edited and made public, until now. The Afternoon Interviews include Tomkins's introductory interview with Duchamp reflecting on his life as an artist, guide, and friend. Calvin Tomkins was born in 1925 in Orange, New Jersey. He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960. His many profiles include John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Leo Castelli, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman and Jasper Johns.