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 ...
One hundred years ago today, on July 14, 1916, an avant-garde European artistic and literary movement called Dadaism—or simply Dada—was officially born in Zurich, Switzerland. World War I was in full ...
It began as a challenge to art itself, but ultimately became an enormously influential art movement. A report on an exhibition of Dada art at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery. To ask "what is art?" ...
A new exhibition at the University of Iowa showcases a variety of pieces in a unique, experimental style. Dada Futures: Circulating Replicants, Surrogates, and Participants opened at Museum of Art’s ...
Last month, at a museum in Paris, a man used a hammer to crack a porcelain urinal on display as part of an exhibition. The attacker said he acted in the name of art. Now that exhibition (with a ...
Maria Stavrinaki, Dada Presentism (image courtesy of Stanford University Press) Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History is an exposé of the conflict between conscious and unconscious forces. The ...
Launched in 2015, Dadaclub.online made high-quality scans of three dozen Dada works available for reinterpretation by new media artists. Now, 27 of the resulting remixes are on view in Paris.
In the winter of 1920, 50 artists from 10 countries received a letter inviting their participation in a Dada world atlas. They were each asked to send a headshot and some photographs of their work.