Dada didn't last long, though it managed to spread its tentacles halfway around the world. The movement -- named for a nonsense word plucked from a dictionary -- was hatched in Zurich during World War ...

One hundred years ago today, on July 14, 1916, an avant-garde European artistic and literary movement called Dadaism—or simply Dada—was officially born in Zurich, Switzerland. World War I was in full ...

Just over 100 years ago, on Feb. 5, 1916, a small group of artists and writers gathered in the back room of a Zurich tavern. They had been invited there by Hugo Ball, a German poet and playwright ...

Details of a brazen forgery scandal are slowly emerging in Germany. A criminal gang has reportedly been consigning works by a made-up Dada artist to auction houses around the country for years. The ...

A documentary produced by the Israeli film service. "I believe that every artist needs to be reborn", declares Marcel Janco, one of the co-founders of the Dada movement. Janco, 82 during filming, ...

In the winter of 1920, 50 artists from 10 countries received a letter inviting their participation in a Dada world atlas. They were each asked to send a headshot and some photographs of their work.

It began as a challenge to art itself, but ultimately became an enormously influential art movement. A report on an exhibition of Dada art at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery. To ask "what is art?" ...

The centenary of Dada is almost upon us. If the movement had an identifiable beginning, it was certainly at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, where Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, ...

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 ...

Dada is art. Dada is anti-art. Dada is manifesto. Dada is jibberish. Dada is a costume so cumbersome one has to be carried when wearing it. Whatever Dada is, or isn’t, most agree it’s long dead. But ...