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 enigmatic artist's first US retrospective in more than 50 years is finally here.

Some art movements don't just change what hangs on gallery walls - they challenge the very idea of what art is, what it means ...

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 ...

This Saturday, 31 artists will disrupt 30 museums across the UK with surreal interventions intended to honour the 102nd anniversary of the First International Dada Exhibition, staged in Berlin in 1920 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Europe’s art centers in the gay and bitter years just after World War I. there was nothing quite like the determinedly disorderly young men who called themselves dadaists.* Whatever anyone else ...