We draw a line between Marcel Duchamp readymades and the Dada art of post-World War I Europe, and the internet memes that fuel today’s conversation. Skeletons, frogs on unicycles, moths, the ...

Artists, poets, musicians and physical performers all know the power of improvisation – spontaneous expression, responsive play with others, experi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dada art movement began during World War One around 1914. Dadaism started because artists were angry and upset about WW1, which began in 1914 and ended in 1918.

Dada: artists’ response to WWI. Zurich was the birthplace of the Dada movement, which began at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. (SRF/Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch, 2014) ...

Improv performance artists are finding resonance in the fears, ideals and artistic expression evoked by the chaos of war in the early 20th century. Dada: how 1916 art movement reacting to world ...