The Dada movement that erupted throughout Europe alongside the First World War was a convulsive artistic response to a culture that had created the horrors of poison gas and trench warfare. And ...

MEXICO CITY — The immeasurable importance of Dada, which arose as a reaction to the unprecedented violence of WWI, is especially important to evoke during this moment of post-truth and “alternative ...

An evening of pseudo-revolution in New York. “Bourgeois slobs!” screamed one demonstrator. “Go to Schrafft’s!” sneered another. The objects of the invective were à la mode art-establishment types ...

Re-enacting seminal Dada performances reminded Jim Moir of a band he was in as an art student The other reason, as demonstrated in Tate Britain’s disastrous Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964-1979 show ...

Dada didn't last long, though it managed to spread its tentacles halfway around the world. The movement -- named for a nonsense word plucked from a dictionary -- was hatched in Zurich during World War ...

Russian Dada 1914 – 1924 edited by Margarita Tupitsyn (2018) is published by The MIT Press. “What is Dada?” reads a famous Dadaist poster: “An art form? A philosophy? A politics?” It is fair to say ...

It was April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who’d found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for ...

The stoic banking center of Zurich is the only city in stolid Switzerland that can claim to have fostered an art movement. Ironically, it was dadaism, which purported to prize meaninglessness over ...

A general interest in abstraction is being reborn, both in the superficial form of the movement towards the spiritual, and in the forms of occultism, spiritualism ...