A giant kitchen grater with menacing blades, an ironing board festooned with penises and Marcel Duchamp`s repurposed urinal greet visitors to the Israel Museum`s new show `No Place Like Home`. The exhibition focuses on the reinterpretation of household objects in art, and takes Duchamp`s jokey 1917 `Fountain` as its starting point. The 120 quirky and sometimes creepy exhibits are laid out in stark white spaces, identified as rooms of a home and labelled as entrance, living room, bathroom and others. It evokes the layout and `home` settings of furniture superstores such as Ikea, one of the event`s sponsors. `It`s the first time that the subject has been treated in this way, from the time of Duchamp up to today,` said exhibition curator Adina Kamien-Kazhdan. `Domestic objects transformed by the artists in many ways are gathered in a quasi-house, a strange sort of house within the Israel Museum,` she said. It also marks the centenary of Duchamp`s piece of sanitary ware, considered an earl
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