I laughed quite a bit going round the exhibition to which the Barbican's latest theatre events are tied, The Bride and the Bachelors. Pioneer Marcel Duchamp's 1921 "Readymade" Why Not Sneeze, Rrose Sélavy is funny in itself: a metal birdcage containing marble sugarcubes with a cuttle bone and a thermometer stuck through the bars. It's even funnier when you learn that admirer Robert Rauchenberg, about to pinch a coup…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AM on February 15, 2013