Its majority owner now has even more of a majority. This followed a large share sale by that strategic investor. Walmart's stake comprised slightly over 9% of Dada's equity. With the shift in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In New York, the exhibit “Dada” at the Museum of Modern Art could—if we’re lucky—develop an interesting double life. Officially, it is an educational account of the style that flourished during and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

An evening of pseudo-revolution in New York. “Bourgeois slobs!” screamed one demonstrator. “Go to Schrafft’s!” sneered another. The objects of the invective were à la mode art-establishment types ...

Sometimes the story of a fight can be told in just a single moment. In the case of Kimbo Slice vs. Dada 5000 at Bellator 149 on Friday, that moment occurred near the end of the second round, when ...