Whenever a new school of painting and sculpture arises, somebody is bound to ask, "but is it art?" Almost a century later, you can still find people asking that question at Washington, D.C.'s National ...

Maria Stavrinaki, Dada Presentism (image courtesy of Stanford University Press) Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History is an exposé of the conflict between conscious and unconscious forces. The ...

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee on a print of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and inscribed the work "L.H.O.O.Q." Spelled out in French these letters form a risqué pun: Elle a ...

Composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a Dada pioneer who mixed music with other sounds. His 1917 ballet, Parade, has dance hall tunes with typewriters, foghorns, rattles, and revolver shots written into ...

THOUGH Jean (Hans) Arp was one of the original Cabaret Voltaire founders of Dada, his work has few of the qualities comm only associated with Dadaism. His images— mildly fantastic, and humorous in a ...

A new exhibition at the University of Iowa showcases a variety of pieces in a unique, experimental style. Dada Futures: Circulating Replicants, Surrogates, and Participants opened at Museum of Art’s ...

Launched in 2015, Dadaclub.online made high-quality scans of three dozen Dada works available for reinterpretation by new media artists. Now, 27 of the resulting remixes are on view in Paris.

But Dada would die out in less than a decade and has not had the kind of major museum retrospective it deserves, until now. The Dada exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (on ...