Cancer couldnt get Hanna Brait down Mar 28, 2008
So I said to Dada I think I m going to barf. So I went over to the food bowls Hanna joked that vomit was coming out of her ears and eyes. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
American Artist Beatrice Wood Mar 10, 2008
From The Mama of Dada to The Pottery Queen of Ojai, California ... Aside from being something of a curious love triangle that later provided the basis for director Fran;ois Truffaut s film Jules et Jim, Duchamp, Wood and Roch; collectively produced The Blind Man, one of the first American Dadaist publications ... Fitting right in with the Dada movement, which essentially asserted that art should not be beautiful or noble but should instead provoke, confuse or amuse its public, Wood became part... (Suite101.com)
Marcel Duchamp: Anything Goes Mar 4, 2008
They are associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements, but they were friends before these existed, and after they ended. Of the three, Duchamp is the towering genius. (Time.com)
Designer inspired by African roots Feb 26, 2008
In the same chic format, Nigerian Dada Okorududu produced a range of heavy brocade corsets and long fishtail skirts with flamenco ruffles for her label, JD7 Couture. Relaxed streetwear was dished up by Amadou Sidibe for Heverton Couture, a French designer of Malian origin, with streetwear with a more military feel from Kampala's Madoi Kasumba Lattif. (iAfrica.com)
A love affair with the face Feb 18, 2008
te Dada, 1920), for example, the artist holds up a face-like dada-construction in front of her - both as protection and amplification. In Raoul Ubac's brilliant Mannequin de Miro, a photo of a mannequin decorated by Joan Miro for the International Exposition of Surrealism at the Galerie des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1938, the elusive artist is entirely absent, the photo working like a portrait of Miro in absentia (though Miro himself is admirably represented here by a fine George Platt Lynes... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Ladies amuse in 'Who's Your Dada?' Jan 27, 2008
Theatre - Who's Your Dada. Review - Ladies amuse in 'Who's Your Dada ... Ladies amuse in 'Who's Your Dada. (Jam! Showbiz)
The most beautiful modern painting in the world Jan 19, 2008
If Les Demoiselles contains within it the seeds of dada and surrealism and every impulse in modern art to unleash dark forces, Matisse, in the final, 1910 version of Dance, anticipates abstract art, minimalism and every artwork that invites the dismissal: is that all. This sumptuous masterpiece leads to the lights going on and off. (Guardian Unlimited)
SOLOW13 Brings the Heat With His Debut CD Release: WARRIOR13 Jan 16, 2008
The single "Whistle13" is impacting Urban radio now and a video for the single is in production from legendary director DaDa (Snoop, Xzibit, The Game). About Latin Thug Records. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
But it's easy to forget that five years ago, LACMA acquired the artist's proof of Marcel Duchamp's clever Dada edition "With Hidden Noise" (1916/64). A ball of twine is held between brass plates, with an unknown object concealed inside. (Los Angeles Times)
Read Indepth Article Jan 1, 2008
Ciprian Muresan has shown this year in the Prague Bienalle, The Athens Bienalle and in "Dada East, the Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire" in Zurich (travelled to Stockholm) and has had solo shows at Kontainer Los Angeles and Raster Warsaw. In June 2008 he will present an installation of his work in the Statements section of Art 39 Basel 2008. (AbsoluteArts.com)
A decade of hip-hopping across the pond Dec 11, 2007
The indie label Big Dada, which celebrates its 10th year with this panoramic two-disc compilation, has served as a kind of flagship for the scene, home to crucial Brit rappers like the underrated Roots Manuva, above, ("Movements," "Witness (I Hope)"), but also to American artists whose work is too weird, unclassifiable, or risqu for stateside houses. These have included, at various times, the Philadelphia DJ Diplo ("Diplo Rhythm," "Now's the Time"); the schizoid Infesticons/Majesticons project... (Boston Globe)
Georg Baselitz and the destructive impulse Nov 24, 2007
Surrealism was itself an offshoot of the destructive, anti-establishment art of the absurd promoted by the Frenchman Marcel Duchamp as part of the Dada movement. Baselitz being German, and an East German, at that, from the land of Saxony, there is a curious orderliness about his Dada/Surrealist inspired breach of visual logic. (International Herald Tribune)
Artists draw on Colonial past for inspiration Nov 15, 2007
The work glances back to Kurt Schwitters and some of collage's roots in Dada and Surrealism, yet it's fresh and even impertinent. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Toddler talent Oct 21, 2007
"He was watching me in my studio, and said, 'Dada! ch! ch!' indicating that he wanted to paint.". So Mitic, who is currently working on large-scale abstracts, gave his son some canvases to work on. (Globe and Mail)
Cowboy bucked off, dies from injuries (578) Oct 18, 2007
He returned to the equine life two decades ago after meeting Billings artist, Liza Dada, in a bar and asking her to dance. I was feeling ornery, so I looked this big cowboy up and down and said, I don t think you can dance, Dada said ... Dada said Malmstrom, now her husband of 22 years, was the first cowboy she d met who displayed original art in his home. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
LACMA Explores Dali's Surrealism From Paintings to Cinema Oct 4, 2007
The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Figueres, Spain (), brings together a team of scholars who have contributed to the comprehensive catalogue: Dawn Ades (curator, Salvador Dali: Centenary Exhibition), Montse Aguer (Director, Centre d'Estudis Dalinians, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation), Felix Fanes (curator, Dali: Cultura de Masas) and Tate curator Matthew Gale (author of Dada and Surrealism). The LACMA showing of this exhibition is co-organized by... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Tapping into your subconscious for ideas Sep 30, 2007
" By the end of its first year, REI store was visited by 1.5 million people, and designated as a National Park Service information station (Kelley, 2001: 196, 203). The REI not only sells products; they are selling experiences. Unusual experiences draw people in. You may start wondering then, how one could come up with great ideas for restaurants? We could start with people, services, and products as the basic ingredients for great experiences we've had in restaurants. But rather than thinking... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Milan fashion shows Sep 28, 2007
The idea was worked both in - and on - the graceful dresses, some with a perfect round of sleeve or collars; others with circle prints that Lagerfeld called "controlled graphics," inspired by the work of the DaDa artist Fran. ois Picabia. (International Herald Tribune)
Interzone 212 Sep 25, 2007
Will McIntosh s wonderful Dada Jihad takes place in a near-future America very much like today s but more so, where the population is polarized between the haves and have-nots, while radical anarchists spread mayhem at will; Ange is less concerned about changing society than in impressing her family by becoming a PhD. Her friends Chair and Rami accuse her of being a, Believer in the cause, but afraid to make too much of a commitment lest it tarnish her career. Finally Tim Akers gives the IZ... (Suite101.com)
The Tarble at 25 Sep 8, 2007
Marcell Duchamp was one of the creators of Dada and Surrealism, and the print was made with his brother, Jacques Villon. Jamie Wyeth is part of the first family of American art, the son of Andrew Wyeth and the grandson of N.C. Wyeth. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Sectarian issues? Get 'em off Sep 4, 2007
The idea, the brainchild of Devine and Oli Norman, MD of DADA marketing agency, will bring together Celtic and Rangers fans to create a quirky piece of art to go down in history. and tell the world Scots aren't as prudish as some thought. (Scotsman)
Lucio Fontana's obsessions: Abstract doodling, blobs and slashes Aug 25, 2007
Surrealism, which invented a parallel world as a spoof of the real one, and the art of Dada, which cultivated the absurd in provocative manner, had both left a deep impression on the artist in the 1930s. Their influence still lingers in the small watercolors of the 1940s meant to illustrate Fontana's adherence to "Spatialism.". (International Herald Tribune)
Spring bidding budding Aug 24, 2007
Cryptic works such as this from de Chirico's metaphysical period are deemed highly symbolic and had a major influence on dadaist and surrealist art. And it cost big bikkies, too, perhaps upwards of $2 million. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
NGA takes the biscuit, for surreal Aug 23, 2007
It measures only 36cm high by 33cm wide but the vibrant orange of its central panel that features two French Petit Beurre biscuits now dominates the Dada and Surrealism gallery at the National Gallery of Australia ... " Ms Nixon travelled to London to inspect the painting after the gallery was approached through a dealer when the owner decided to sell La Mort d'un esprit. "I went to see it, did a conservation check and a provenance check because anything from Europe between 1933 and 1945 has to... (The Canberra Times)
Australian gallery buys early de Chirico painting Aug 21, 2007
De Chirico was known as the inventor of the Metaphysical art movement, which had a strong influence on the Dada and Surrealist movements. Radford said the painting was the first European Modernist painting acquired by the National Gallery since 1993. (Reuters.uk)
Mash-up music has ample samples Aug 11, 2007
Mash-up is the musical equivalent of Dada art. It takes the emotions and feelings expressed in the work of another, cuts them up, adds elements from other sources and creates something wholly unique. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
The art of East & West Aug 7, 2007
Marcel Duchamp and John Cage are among his most significant influences - he was one of the founders of the influential Xiamen Dada group in the 1980s, and he has adopted the Dadaists' suspicion of the romantic ideal of the expressive, tormented artist. Instead, he embraces the operations of chance. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'Peter Simensky' gives bang for buck Aug 6, 2007
In their early 20th-century dada days, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray had fun with the concept of money; Duchamp appeared as sort of satyr on Monte Carlo Bond (1924) in a Man Ray photograph. More recently, there have been artists who draw their own bills. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Alberto Sughi: 1946 to Present Jul 26, 2007
He has managed to go beyond the idea of painting as the transcription of various themes using, for his own artistic research, the language of the Informal and the Metaphysical, the language of Dada and of Expressionism. Sughi is extraneous to artistic movements, even though he was involved in the definition of a group, that of existential realism, and has managed to construct a new type of painting with a subtle narrative element, through cycles of paintings. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Best Smaller Museums in Paris Jul 12, 2007
Musee Picasso - The Dada movement started in Paris, and the Picasso Museum has examples of Picasso's contributions to that art form. With several thousand of his works here, however, the Picasso Museum is not confined to one art form - just as the artist himself was not. (Suite101.com)
The Best Art Museums in Paris Jul 11, 2007
The Dada and Surrealism movements are well represented at the Pompidou. Warhol, Jackson Pollack, Rothko, Kandinsky, Miro and Picasso are all featured prominently here, along with Marcel Duchamps and his "ready-made" works of art. (Suite101.com)
Mille-feuille! Jul 4, 2007
When Ann Demeulemeester opened her show with a Marcel Duchamp interview on the soundtrack and with DaDa printed across the chest, the heart sank. Not another designer influenced by last year's DaDa exhibition. (International Herald Tribune)
E-City chalks out Rs 250cr plan for AP Jun 28, 2007
Thursday,Jun 28,2007. K Rajani Kanth / Chennai/ Hyderabad June 26, 2007. (Business Standard)
Read More... Jun 12, 2007
A Dada daydream in Chicanoville, USA. ... "Inspired in part by the contemporaneous spirit of the Chicano civil rights movement, Pop art, anti-war activism, feminism, post-Stonewall gay liberation and other complex currents of the day, the artists brought Zurich Dada of the late-1910s to 1970s Los Angeles."' (LA Weekly ). (Disinformation)
Actor Never Forgot Roots In Hartford May 29, 2007
From the Hartford Courant. Actor Never Forgot Roots In Hartford By ANN MARIE SOMMA, Courant Staff Writer. (FOX61, CT)
"Rather Strange Developments" at the Cummer May 19, 2007
Paintings, sculptures, pastels and collages by renowned artists including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee exemplify the avant-garde artistic movements of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl (also known as Neo-Plasticism), Dada and Surrealism as well as other abstract and non-objective styles. Members, Free. (Florida Times-Union)
Pop, trash, kitsch combine artfully at Rose Museum May 11, 2007
Inspired by early 20th-century Dada and the zanily anti-traditionalist art of Fluxus in the '60s, the Swiss conceptualist Armleder (born 1948) has dedicated his career to breaking down the usual boundaries between categories such as art and life, high culture and popular culture. An infectiously insouciant, antiauthoritarian spirit drives his enterprise. (Boston Globe -- Living)
The postman who delivered a palace May 4, 2007
Thanks to him, a picture of the palace was included in the 1936 "Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 1. (International Herald Tribune)
* Latino, American:both or neither? May 3, 2007
Here, in a carefully mounted miscellany, are gathered for sale the passions of Hispanic-American life, combining Dada and devotion, high-camp sensation and solemn figurines, kitsch and art X traditions clashing and mingling with enthusiastic glee. The gift shop, meant to invoke folk botanica storefronts with their arrays of herbal cures and icons, seems more authentic and celebratory than many of the shops in the Market Square here and more suggestive about the vibrancy of Hispanic-American... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
More of this story May 1, 2007
He learned by looking and absorbing into his psyche the work of others, such as the dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the surrealist Max Ernst. In turn, he influenced the work of others, including Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, who wrote in a letter to Cornell: I wish my work could touch others as yours does, a compliment he treasured, says Hartigan. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Joan Miro - Surrealist Artist Apr 26, 2007
Mir was a legendary 20th century Catalan artist influenced by Surrealism and Dada ... He divided his time between Paris (winter) and Montroig (summer); participated in Dada activities and associated with the prominent writers and poets of the day. (Suite101.com)
You're never too young to be exploited Apr 15, 2007
So delinquency and Dada are reduced to expressions of youth's sacred duty: to stick two fingers up at convention. In this exaltation of rebellion, one detects the same enraptured sensibility that informed England's Dreaming, Savage's exhaustive meditation on the origins and meaning of punk rock. (The Observer)
Art show criticized by animal rights groups Apr 9, 2007
Huang was born in the city of Xiamen in China's Fjian province where he formed the Xiamen Dada group in 1986. It's not the first time an artistic piece in Vancouver have raised the ire of animals rights groups. (CTV.ca)
Framed?AddMyLinkImage("/news/181_1950455,00120003.htm", "Framed?"); Mar 14, 2007
But the French seem to value everything, especially a urinal presented as art by the Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. Now, we have different ideas about the word Dada from Sourav Ganguly to back alley no-hopers ... Yet, Dada also refers to the early 20th century art movement denounced by critics as anti-art and an apology for philistines. (Hindustan Times, India)
Jeff Wall merges mundane with the bigger picture Mar 11, 2007
"Rainfilled Suitcase" and "The Flooded Grave" -- a picture as striking as its title -- are Dada creations, pure and not so simple. (Wall, who was born in 1946, wrote his master's thesis in art history on Dada in Berlin. (Boston Globe)
Witness To War Mar 1, 2007
REVIEW / A look back at the Vietnam War gives artists no peace (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The arts column Feb 21, 2007
One strand of their work seems to grow out of child-like improvisation, and one can easily imagine them composing their ludicrous dada tableaux in a playground spirit of joshing co-operation. But I don't see why they needed each other to take a series of photographs of airport tarmacs: surely their tastes cannot be identical, which implies that there must be occasions when they compromise with each other, which in turn spells a diminution of power and integrity. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Q&A with Elizabeth Diller Feb 19, 2007
We've recently collaborated on a theater piece called "Who's Your Dada?" and finished work with a French filmmaker. It's what we need to do to survive. (Boston Globe)
The A-Z of alternative breaks Feb 17, 2007
Done Paris, Rome, Madrid. Try bar-hopping in Belgrade, chilling in Catania or raving in Rimini, says Jeroen Bergmans of Wallpaper. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Paris court upholds conviction for man who attacked Duchamp urinal Feb 9, 2007
64 million), during an exhibit at Paris' Pompidou Center on the early 20th century's avant-garde Dada movement on Jan. 4, 2006. He also scrawled the word "Dada" on the urinal ... Pinoncelli contended at the time that he had increased the value of the work by making it an "original." He said it was not vandalism but a "wink" at Dadaism that had Duchamp's blessing. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Meanwhile: The urinal that would be a fountain Jan 20, 2007
The work was on display at a Dada exhibition at the Pompidou Center last January when Pinoncelli took out a little hammer and gave several wacks to the urinal, inflicting minor damage ... He said he wanted to "pay tribute to Duchamp, to make a post-Dada gesture, to give back to his work its provocative qualities.". (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
2007 North American International Auto Show Charity Preview Raises Millions For Children's Charities Jan 14, 2007
Beneficiaries of the Charity Preview include: Barat Child and Family Services; Boys Club of Southeastern Michigan; Boys Hope-Girls Hope of Detroit; The Children's Center; Children's Homes of Judson Center; Children's Services of Northeast Guidance Center Assistance League; The Detroit Institute for Children; ThinkDetroit PAL (Police Athletic League); Easter Seals - Michigan; March of Dimes; and the DADA Charitable Foundation Fund, a fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan ...... (PR Newswire)
Action, sentiment and romance Jan 14, 2007
One day he has an encounter with a `dada' who has everybody at his beck and call. Aazhwar takes on the mighty and wins not only with his brain but also with the strength of mind and body. (Hindu)
Superhero Hrithik Roshan turns 33 Jan 12, 2007
He also appeared as a child artist in Aap Ki Deewane in 1980 and Bhagwan Dada in 1986. Hrithik made a smashing debuted as the lead in Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai with actress Amisha Patel in 2000. (Moneycontrol.com)
The king and I Jan 7, 2007
Idi Amin Dada was a man who attracted stories like a street lamp attracts termite flies ... Frenchman Barbet Schroeder's documentary G;n;ral Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (1974), notionally directed by the dictator himself, was another important staging post in Amin's road to media stardom ... During a scene at Mulago hospital, people started chanting "Dada" in approbation when he appeared - and then one woman began to curse him loudly. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Getting a sense of the visual art-sound link Dec 29, 2006
Big Dada himself, Marcel Duchamp, dreamed of "an immense Venus de Milo made of sounds around the listener.". Back then, these proposals seemed so grandiose and/or theoretical, they were more likely to end up only as fodder for caf; talk or for a vicious backlash from conservative critics. (Toronto Star)
Double vision: Contrasting artists Dec 29, 2006
The sculpture turns a cliche-burdened icon into something resembling an absurd hallucination, pop culture gone dada. Things get no more rational in Hammer, a giant version of the everyday tool that hardly looks everyday. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The old man and the urinal - Paris ponders value of art Dec 23, 2006
The surrealist conundrum would perhaps have delighted Marcel Duchamp, the French Dadaist who caused outrage in 1917 when he signed a porcelain urinal "R Mutt", christened it Fountain and declared it art ... When the 77-year-old performance artist Pierre Pinoncelli arrived at a Dada exhibition at the Pompidou Centre modern art museum in Paris last January and took a hammer to Duchamp's seminal work, the French art world was aghast but not surprised ... The urinal, once voted the most influential... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Send in the Clowns Dec 22, 2006
Ms. Kimmerle quotes the following from an autobiography Mr. Roth started, but never finished, in the exhibition: "I... wanted to fight for a better world. We lived in a strange blend of absolute desperation and enormous zest for life. The time was actually horrible... constantly lurking catastrophes, the increasing street battles between communists, socialists and Nazis." Mr. Roth also joined the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany during this time, where he met some of the... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Our response to Iraq Dec 11, 2006
They responded with Dada art and modern literature that reflected their loss of faith in the human being. The Vietnam War generation responded to their discouragement by breaking established societal norms and organizing massive protests calling for change. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Cowboy Kate rides again Dec 5, 2006
Asked how he feels about modern art photography that involves manipulation of images with computer programs and morphing of people and objects into abstract swirls and lines, Haskins says: "It's how the impressionist painters must have felt when Dada came along.". DOUBLE EXPOSURE. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A new exhibit highlights cultural decadence of Weimar Germany Nov 24, 2006
Her heavily rouged face, seen through a bright blue veil, seems to grow larger from left to right, like a seamless form of Dada montage. It is woozy, as if we see her through the eyes of a drunken customer. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Exhibit highlights modern art Nov 9, 2006
Marcel Duchamp, the great Dada artist who loved to play with identity, might have enjoyed it if Katherine Drier, his cohort in modern art, had appeared on one of those popular 1950s television panel shows like "I've Got a Secret." Nobody would have guessed that this less-than-stunning woman was indeed the doyenne of the modern art movement in America or predict that her vision and forceful personality would reach across continents and influence art education into the next century. This was, of... (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Found objects find new attention: Hirshhorn Gallery exhibit brings detritus to life Nov 9, 2006
Issue date: 11/9/06 Section. Media Credit: Bjorn Dahlem's "Schwarzes Loch (Black Hole)" finds the intersection of science and art. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Minimalist touch makes the most of everyday materials Nov 2, 2006
In Tara Donovan's art, you can see the democratic impulse and willingness to make any material a work of art that characterize Pop Art and Dada. There are also the obsessively repetitive gestures that have been in vogue during the last decade. (Boston Globe -- Living)
