A century ago, a group of exiled artists from across Europe did something radical in a time of war: they worked together, regardless of national background or language, to create art aimed at ...

Whenever a new school of painting and sculpture arises, somebody is bound to ask, "but is it art?" Almost a century later, you can still find people asking that question at Washington, D.C.'s ...

Artists, poets, musicians and physical performers all know the power of improvisation – spontaneous expression, responsive play with others, experi ...

Despite its origins as an “anti-art” movement, Dadaism spread like a wildfire and opened the floodgates for both originality and reappropriation of existing content through untraditional means.

This file photo provided Oct. 3, 2005 by the Pompidou Art Center in Paris shows Marcel Duchamp 's 1917 work "Fountain" . The work is part of the Dada retrospective which runs until Jan. 9, 2006.

Dada’s best-known exponent is Marcel Duchamp, the French artist who signed a urinal and called it art, and is widely regarded as the most influential artist of the 20th century.

One hundred years ago today, on July 14, 1916, an avant-garde European artistic and literary movement called Dadaism—or simply Dada—was officially born in Zurich, Switzerland. World War I was ...

Improv performance artists are finding resonance in the fears, ideals and artistic expression evoked by the chaos of war in the early 20th century. Dada: how 1916 art movement reacting to world ...