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 ...

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 ...

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One hundred years ago, amid the devastation of WWI’s trench warfare, Dada — the political, absurdist avant-garde art movement that flourished from around 1916 to the mid-1920s — was born among artists ...

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 ...

Artists, poets, musicians and physical performers all know the power of improvisation – spontaneous expression, responsive play with others, experimentation, vulnerability, even chaos. All this can ...

Digital archives have become powerful platforms for women artists who were excluded from official art history, allowing them to claim their rightful place posthumously. However, amid the legitimate ...

Commentators at the time of World War I said Europe hadn't seen that level of barbarism since the Thirty Years War in the 17th century. World War I took the lives of about 30 percent of men between ...

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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 ...