U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan has been dismissed in a new wartime shake‑up at the Pentagon, coming just weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the Army’s highest‑ranking general from his post.

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A century before a banana duct-taped to a wall blew up the very definition of art, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, an upside-down, prefabricated porcelain urinal mounted on a pedestal and signed with a pseudonym in 1917, was already making history as a seminal work of the avant-garde and, by extension, as an example of the renewal, or reinvention, of art. Duchamp went down in history for this creation, and for painting a mustache and goatee on an image of the Mona Lisa, but over more than six decades of his career, he explored every style and rode the wave of those that followed, from Impressionism to Dadaism and Calder-like installations. His work is a perfect chronology of 20th-century art, but so too is the lively biography of its creator.

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