Celebrating 1913, a glory year for modern art

A Leeds gallery gets set to mark the centenary of an artistic annus mirabilis – when Duchamp, Matisse and Picasso brought modern art out of the studios and into the streets.

Art is soon to celebrate a dazzling centenary. When the new year chimes in and we enter 2013, it will be 100 years since Marcel Duchamp put a bicycle wheel on top of a wooden stool to invent the readymade; since Henri Matisse came back from a trip to Morocco that sparked his most radical phase; since the Armory Show gave America its first big blast of modern art; since …

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