Art, chess and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp and chess Grandmaster George Koltanowski.

Spanning three decades, two continents, two world wars and the international art and chess scenes of the mid-twentieth century, Duchamp’s Pipe explores the remarkable friendship  between art world enfant terrible Marcel Duchamp and blindfold chess champion George Koltanowski. Artist and cultural historian Celia Rabinovitch describes each man’s rise to prominence, the chess matches that sparked their relationship and the recently discovered pipe that Duchamp gave to Koltanowski.