You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses ...

It’s quite a feat to recapture the thrill of a century-old cultural insurgency, but Jed Rasula pulls it off with gusto in Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, a ...

A century ago, a group of exiled artists from across Europe did something radical in a time of war: they worked together, regardless of national background or language, to create art aimed at ...

The revolutionary history of collage. How cut and paste shaped 20th-century culture.

Dada, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, June 18—September 11, 2006. MoMA is the exhibition’s final of three venues. Centre Pompidou in Paris (October 5, 2005—January 9, ...

Whenever a new school of painting and sculpture arises, somebody is bound to ask, "but is it art?" Almost a century later, you can still find people asking that question at Washington, D.C.'s National ...

Composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a Dada pioneer who mixed music with other sounds. His 1917 ballet, Parade, has dance hall tunes with typewriters, foghorns, rattles, and revolver shots written into ...

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The radical leftist movement was anti-war, anti-bourgeois, anti-art, even sometimes anti-dada. In his Dada Manifesto, Tristan Tzara poetically explained: "Dada; abolition of logic, which is the dance ...

Dada artists of the early 20th century were constantly deconstructing the imagery around them, using scissors and glue to craft new objects from mundane, everyday items. Photomontage, collage and ...