shovel

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The point of no return was 1915, when Duchamp, altogether rejecting art’s traditional role as aesthetic creation—metamorphosis—brought that snow shovel and hung it from his studio ceiling as “In Advance of the Broken Arm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

But Moriarty said Castro was "not hit by a shovel or a broom. In fact, he was not hit at all," she said.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

To most, the shovel fits alongside Indio’s large-scale public artworks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

I’m definitely a plastic shovel type of guy, unless we’re going through the ice.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

He walked two steps to the right of the hole in a clockwise curve and thrust the shovel again into the cornfield.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young