The commutability of artistic talent is, for many artists, a way to represent how they made the leap from one expression of ...

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 ...

A century ago, a group of exiled artists from across Europe did something radical in a time of war: they worked together, regardless of national background or language, to create art aimed at ...

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 ...

At the tail end of the centennial of the Dada movement, Kunsthaus Zürich has finished digitizing its collection of over 400 original pieces of Dada ephemera. The entire assortment of works on paper, ...

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 ...

100 years ago today, on February 5, 1916, the now-legendary Cabaret Voltaire—the artist hangout that gave birth to the Dada movement—was opened in Zurich. It all started with a “Dada Evening” ...

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