Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Tristan Tzara "Postcard to Paul Eluard," 1921 Brush and pen in ink, tobacco, postal stamps, stamp in black, 14 x 9 cm Kunsthaus Zürich 2015 ProLitteris, Zurich / Estate of ...

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 ...

Washington — IT is hard to take seriously a group of grown men and women who submit a store-bought urinal to an art show, declaim meaningless sounds as poetry, stage mock trials of novelists they ...

Some art movements don't just change what hangs on gallery walls - they challenge the very idea of what art is, what it means, and who it belongs to. From wartime Switzerland to postwar New York, ...

It began with a longing to make the world a better place. While WWI raged, claiming what would amount to tens of millions of lives, it decimated the fantasy of order, leaving chaos and, as some would ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1585): “Dadaglobe Reconstructed” is precisely the kind of show that the Museum of Modern Art should be doing, and very often has done of late. Memories of “Bjork” have pretty much been ...

We might know Martin Margiela as the Belgian designer behind famed fashion house, Maison Margiela. Now, the designer has turned to art making, with his debut on view at Lafayette Anticipations in ...

“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 ...