THOUGH Jean (Hans) Arp was one of the original Cabaret Voltaire founders of Dada, his work has few of the qualities comm only associated with Dadaism. His images— mildly fantastic, and humorous in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
But Dada would die out in less than a decade and has not had the kind of major museum retrospective it deserves, until now. The Dada exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (on ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jasper Johns, 29, is the brand-new darling of the art world’s bright, brittle avantgarde. A year ago he was practically unknown; since then he has had a sellout show in Manhattan, has exhibited in ...