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Duchamp and the Long Scroll of Huang Yong Ping

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MOMA’s newly reopened contemporary art galleries contain plenty of references — oblique and direct — to the role of Marcel Duchamp as father of conceptual art. One piece now on display is Franco-Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping’s epic "Long Scroll," which cycles through his artistic genealogy across the span of some 50 feet of classically oriented imagery.

Amid the Buddhas and geometric abstractions, careful viewers will find bottleracks and more.

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