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?" ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary.

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 ...

“In Zurich, not involved in the slaughterhouses of the world war, we dedicated ourselves to the fine arts. While in the distance gunfire rumbled, we glued paper, read our works, wrote poetry, and sang ...