Important Works on Paper exhibition Nov 17, 2009
Not to be overlooked are two exquisite Andr; Masson drawings from the 1920s - among the most elegant synthetic cubist drawings ever produced - one in soft color pencil that harkens back to the still life with guitar motif employed by Picasso and Braque in their earlier cubist works, the other a thinly veiled anarchist metaphor in the spirit of dada ... So, romanticism survived the cynicism of post WWI Europe, dada not withstanding. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Chicago court OKs $10 refunds for ringtones, games Nov 11, 2009
The defendants contributing to the settlement include Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Sony Pictures subsidiary 2WayTraffic Mobile USA Inc, MBlox Inc, CellCo Partnership, Emexus Americas Inc, Dada USA Inc, Dada Mobile Inc, Dada Entertainment LLC, Lavalife LLC, Mobile Entertainment Inc, Playphone Inc, SendMe Inc, SJA Mobile LLC, Dada S.p.A subsidiary UPOC Networks, UPOC Inc, and W31 Mobile LLC.. The court case in Cook County is 07-CH-37213. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
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Kandinsky s clamorous orchestrations of modernistic signs and symbols and Klee s roughly textured, fine-lined reveries, including his evergreen Twittering Machine (1922), channel influences of German Expressionism, Russian Constructivism, and Dada. Strong essays by the curators Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll in the show s superb catalogue acknowledge the dated, unattractive aspects of the Bauhaus as a projection of Utopia marked by mechanistic views of human nature. (New Yorker)
Combating infertility problems Oct 31, 2009
According to Dr Rima Dada, associate professor of anatomy at AIIMS, an infertile man is one whose wife is not able to conceive after one year of regular unprotected intercourse ... A recent finding by an AIIMS team, which included Dr N P Gupta (chief of urology) and Dr Dada, confirmed that it had affected about 25 per cent of the infertile men examined ... "The excess free radical levels produced during oxidative stress can be reduced by intake of antioxidants, like fruits and vegetables.... (India Times, India)
When Tinguely met Rauschenberg Oct 23, 2009
His reputation was already established among the city's art scene - which included Rauschenberg, his contemporary Jasper Johns, and Dada master Marcel Duchamp through his Mta-Matic kinetic drawing machines. A few months later Tinguely staged his Homage to New York in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Dada and Dewey decimals Oct 8, 2009
Not already a member. Art exhibits give welcome break from research. (UCD Advocate, CO)
Conventions seek lower-profile cities Oct 7, 2009
"Palm Springs is considered a luxury destination, especially during peak season," said Aftab Dada, general manager of the Hilton Palm Springs resort. "We were painted with the same brush as AIG.". (USA Today -- Money)
Tiny tots destroy serenity of the surreal Oct 3, 2009
They could all go Dada, and gaga, together. How could I begrudge parent and child the chance to see such masterpieces. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
* Speech Debelle scoops top Mercury Music Prize Sep 10, 2009
Speech Therapy, on the Big Dada label, has sold fewer than 3,000 copies since its release, half of which came since it was shortlisted seven weeks ago. Debelle has never reached the Official Singles or Albums charts, although this is set to change over the coming weeks, Talbot said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Speech Debelle wins Mercury Sep 9, 2009
Speech Therapy was released on the Big Dada record label, which is also home to rapper Roots Manuva, who contributed to the album. RECENT MERCURY WINNERS 2008: Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 2007: Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future 2006: Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2005: Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now 2004: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 2003: Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner 2002: Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper. (BBC News -- UK)
* Truth to power Aug 16, 2009
He also soaked up Western art history, taking Marcel Duchamp as a starting point then tracing a lineage that ran from Dada to Pop Art and Conceptual Art. His personal ideas of bringing together found objects, or readymades, and Chinese antiques, however, had not yet come into its own. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Swiss cafe like night and day Jul 19, 2009
rich s Dada art movement. Over the years, Odeon has hosted Europe s famous and infamous, including James Joyce and Benito Mussolini. (Boston Globe)
Art of the state Jul 13, 2009
"Alongside books on Islamic calligraphy, Dada, Renaissance art, cave art, there's one on Melbourne graffiti art," says Duro Cubrilo who, along with Martin Harvey and Karl Stamer, wrote Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti, Melbourne 1983-93. During the 1980s, Melbourne's trains and railway lines burned with this graffiti, mostly done by teenagers armed with aerosol cans. (The Age, Australia)
At face value: Art league focuses on Faces exhibit May 20, 2009
Also on view at the Henegar is the Strawbridge Art Leagues Dada Revolt exhibition. That runs through June 14. (Florida Today)
* Whiffle hurling? Bag tag? Hey, its art May 17, 2009
The point of the game X 30 percent soccer, 20 percent rugby, the rest pure Dada X was to pound the ball through a single, soccer-style goal that sat, like an object of Druidic devotion, at the center of a ring of orange pylons. One player punched the ball with his fist. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Israeli artist draws inspiration from nature May 15, 2009
Handle with Care, a 2004 installation at the Yanko Dada Museum in Ein Hod, Israel, crafted entirely of paper clips, looks like a hauntingly beautiful spider web. It s Worthwhile to Wait, is constructed from vegetable boxes that resemble two birds facing each other, as if in conversation. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
The Parenting Place Apr 28, 2009
" Or just watching her play imaginary games with herself, pretending that we're painting and looking at my imaginary canvas and saying "Dada, that's so pretty. "So if you're new at this like me and you haven't hit that magical 24 month mark, don't be all that fearful -- it's really a lot of fun. ". (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Expressions in Abstract : Abby Jones Apr 15, 2009
Others still have identified the beginning of performance art in the Dada and Futurist movements. Unfortunately these scholars are all dead wrong. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Back to the bard old days Apr 10, 2009
We like Tom Stoppard and Dada and Pinter and Hamlet and Stephen Sondheim and Nick Cave. Consequently, we didn't really like that documentary last Sunday about Andrew Rogers making giant sculptures in Turkey. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
What the nose knows of an artist's hand Mar 18, 2009
He landed roles in political plays like "Randlords and Rotgut." He was a goat in the children's drama "The Goat That Sneezed." He played the Dada leader Tristan Tzara in a Market Theater production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," and today his affinities with Dada surface in the spontaneity and fluidity of his image-making. Even as his art-world career took off over the last two decades, he adapted several dramas and operas, including puppet dramas. (International Herald Tribune)
The All Saints Show Feb 27, 2009
She explains, My work explores identity issues, chance as an element in art and the Dada concept of collage, but on a digital level based on my photography, digital painting and found imagery. I consider digital collage as the alchemy of our day. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Beauty is in the sex of the beholder, study finds Feb 25, 2009
Dada selecting KKR angels. Saira Rahman at the red carpet. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Yves Saint Laurent art sells for €206 million Feb 24, 2009
A fifth record was improbably set earlier for a work by Marcel Duchamp, the master of the Dada movement propounding the absurd as an art form, when two banal toilet water flasks with added inscriptions fetched 8. 91 million. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Saint Laurent auction breaks world records Feb 24, 2009
A 1921 piece of found art a bottle of breath freshener created by the Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp sold for 8 ... We saw two collectors who I think were American, who had been waiting for so long for a Dada work that they were fighting with all their heart, he said. (Globe and Mail)
Dada and surrealist masterpieces make US stop Feb 13, 2009
Pieces that once shocked the art world highlight a new exhibition featuring dada and surrealist masterpieces challenging the perception of what is real ... "This is the first time that we have sent such an extensive display of dada and surrealist holdings in a single exhibition." ... The exhibition traces surrealism beginning with its roots in the avant-garde dada movement that began in 1916 in response to the devastation of World of War I.. (Yahoo News)
LYDIA & BLACK GOLD Team up for the "ILLUMINATE YOURSELF" Tour Feb 13, 2009
LYDIA & BLACK GOLD Team up for the "ILLUMINATE YOURSELF" Tour: Financial News - Yahoo. Source: Universal Motown Records Group. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Landscapes designed with the vision of an artist Feb 8, 2009
"He truly had a painter's eye, which you could sense in his superb sense of color and form, and he had an understanding of the tenets of Modernism and Dada, having clearly known and studied the work of people like Hans Arp.". Like Arp, Burle Marx was of German descent on his father's side and French on his mother's side. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
