Duchamp's 
Fountain was recently voted 
the most influential modern art work of all time by 500 art experts, leading Picasso's 
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 
the Marilyn Diptych, 
Guernica, and Matisse's 
The Red Studio (among others).
Don't get it? You can find out 
why these pieces are art at the San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art's incredibly thorough 
Making Sense of Modern Art webpage. Here's the entry for 
Fountain.
(via 
Boing Boing)
UPDATE: The 
MetaFilter post on this subject -- which I actually beat this time -- has more, including links to the rest of the top ten.
# posted by 
Gerry Canavan @ 10:19 AM 
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