It began with a longing to make the world a better place. While WWI raged, claiming what would amount to tens of millions of lives, it decimated the fantasy of order, leaving chaos and, as some would ...

A century ago, international artists and writers met in Zurich to form a new movement, Dadaism. Their anti-art was a response to an ever-present issue: the madness of war. Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and ...

You might be familiar with the term Dadaism from your Art Humanities course, or from a plaque on a museum wall describing a piece that you squinted at and thought, “There is no way this counts as art.

While Dadaism did give rise to Surrealism, the artistic movement hardly invented absurdity. In fact, a short-lived phenomenon called Les Arts Incohérents was spawned in the late 19th century in Paris, ...

Shitposting is not new but as more and more adults try to keep track of what youngsters are posting online, the concept is finding way into conversations L.H.O.O.Q. is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp, ...

We might know Martin Margiela as the Belgian designer behind famed fashion house, Maison Margiela. Now, the designer has turned to art making, with his debut on view at Lafayette Anticipations in ...

“Beyond Painting”, the title of a major exhibition of the work of Max Ernst at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, could be mistaken for a curator’s matter-of-fact description of a show that, ...