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 ...

Comedy star Vic Reeves will be restaging an early Dada art performance for a new season of programmes on BBC4. The funnyman is examining the early 20th Century art movement in the documentary entitled ...

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 ...

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 ...

Art Still Gaga for Dada, 100 Years Later Dada: It was the mother of all revolutionary art movements, shocking in the almost mystical nihilism and concomitant absurdity that it expounded.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...