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 ...

BEVERLY — Wells Chandler’s “Psychedelic Soccer Dada” at Montserrat College of Art’s Montserrat Gallery is all about twerking, but it has nothing to do with dancing. The Germanic word means “twist,” ...

This course will take place virtually on Zoom. Participation in this course requires a device (ideally a computer or tablet, rather than a cell phone) with a camera and microphone in good working ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a “transformative gift” of 188 works by some of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The donation, known as The Bluff Collection, comes from ...

Although their voices might not always have been heard, women artists played a central role in Dada and Surrealism, establishing a legacy for later feminist and queer art. This course explores the ...

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Summary An audiotape recording (3 ...

In late 1924, surrealism emerged not as a quiet artistic idea, but through feuds, manifestos, and public chaos that reshaped ...

Nearly 200 works from the Dada and Surrealist movements, including "Ingres' Violin" by Man Ray -- the world's most expensive photograph -- will join the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, it ...

A film about the radical attack surrealism and Dada wrought on the familiar and traditional art values of the past. Through the perceptive choice of paintings and sculptures from the work of de ...

Art Still Gaga for Dada, 100 Years Later Dada: It was the mother of all revolutionary art movements, shocking in the almost mystical nihilism and concomitant absurdity that it expounded.

A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art movements that sought to reinvent the field. By Orlando Whitfield Orlando ...

Surrealism laid great stress on the liberating power of sexuality. ... But what mostly mattered to the surrealists was freedom itself. ... For the French surrealists, the desire for freedom linked the ...