On Bastille Day in 1916, Hugo Ball published the Dada manifesto, a declaration explaining “a new tendency in art” that was meant to seek meaning in newness, even if what was created didn’t ...

Spring festivals: ・View art installations, take in a dazzling fireworks show, and listen to live music along the banks of the Anacostia River at Petalpalooza (April 5, free, Capitol Riverfront).

location_on Hirshhorn Museum language Website Photograph of Pendleton’s “Black Dada (A/A)” by Andy Romer. “Black Dada” is how this painter has described some of his work–he draws inspiration from both ...

A visionary painter, graphic artist and an experimental filmmaker, the German modernist Hans Richter (1888-1976) was one of the original members of Dada. Though best known for his experiments in avant ...

The contributions of Dadaism’s key thinkers—Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, and others—extend far beyond the realm of art. Their radical critiques of authority, rationality, and ...

At a preview, Bellotti’s moodboard featured an eclectic mix of imagery, but one portrait stood out, that of Hugo Ball, the sound-poetry author and founder of the Dada movement in 1916 Zürich.

Hugo Ball, one of the founders of Dada in 1916. Archivio GBB / Alamy The group is led by musician and dramatist Jer Reid, my invaluable collaborator.

Hugo Ball was a German writer, poet and artist, born February 22, 1886 in Pirmasens, Germany. He is best known for being one of the founders of the artistic and literary movement known as Dadaism. The ...

He continued: “There had recently been an economic crash, the Nazis were coming to power – this was 1932 – and quite a few of the countries they lived in were sliding into fascism. The Dada artist ...

“Speaking, as I am, as an impostor wearing a Hugo Ball suit, who doesn’t know much of anything about Dada, I am pleased to accept this proclamation,” Farnsworth said.

In Cologne, in 1920, German artist Max Ernst and a band of local dadas, excluded from a museum exhibition, organized their own—“Dada Early Spring”—in the courtyard of a pub.