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George Grosz, Explosion, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135840
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Moskovitz
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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jeremymillar.bsky.social
Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn wall, Hatton Gallery
A section of dry wall, taken from a barn on Ambleside, onto which the German artist Kurt Schwitters built a series of abstract concrete and coloured forms in 1947.
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
dadaists.bsky.social
New Walter Serner translation from @twistedspoon.bsky.social

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twistedspoon.bsky.social Twisted Spoon Press @twistedspoon.bsky.social · Oct 1
In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera.
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
October 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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twistedspoon.bsky.social
In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera.
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
dadaists.bsky.social
Didn't know Jack Johnson ever came to London.

#Dada connection: as a fugitive from US marriage law, Johnson 'fought' (thrashed) Arthur Cravan in a mismatch put on for a handsome purse, in Barcelona, 1916.
lbwfarchives.bsky.social Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social · 23d
Jack Johnson (1878-1946), boxer & first African American heavyweight world champion 1908. He stayed at Chingford's Royal Forest Hotel in 1911 when training in Epping Forest for prospective match with Billy Wells. Blog by @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/the-fig... #BHM25
Photographic portrait of Jack Johnson, 1909. Source Creative Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1909_Jack_Johnson.jpg Advertisement for the Royal Forest Hotel, from Chingford Directory 1907.
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
dadaists.bsky.social
Dada wine?

www.fincalasmoras.com/en/dada/
Finca las Moras - DADÁ
La única regla del mundo dadá, es no tener regla alguna.
www.fincalasmoras.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
dadaists.bsky.social
On censorship, with reference to John Heartfield's photomontage practice:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

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Anna Aslanyan | The Censor’s Scissors
John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had caused...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way. What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money. Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight. To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 4 Oct 1884 anarchist poet, essayist, playwright, musician, actor, translator and Dadaist Jun Tsuji was born in Tokyo. Among the works he translated into Japanese is individualist anarchist Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...
October 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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On Suzanne Duchamp:

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

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Suzanne Duchamp, the Mama of Dada, Made Absurdism Sparkle and Shine
Work in her traveling retrospective (Kunsthaus Zurich and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt) perpetuates Dada's playfulness without its wry, cold affect.
www.artnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
dadaists.bsky.social
Starting next week at the Met, New York:

Man Ray: When Objects Dream

www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

#Dada #Surrealism #ManRay
Man Ray: When Objects Dream - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American artist Man Ray (1890–1976) was a visionary known for his radical experiments that pushed the limits of photography, painting, sculpture, and film.
www.metmuseum.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 28 Jul 1887 the French-American artist, painter, sculptor, writer, chess player and anarchist Marcel Duchamp was born. A key figure in the Dada movement, Duchamp helped revolutionise the art world stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...
July 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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#OtD 8 Jul 1940 Yoshiyuki Eisuke (吉行 エイスケ), Japanese Dadaist poet, novelist and anarchist, died at the age of just 34 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1080...
July 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
dadaists.bsky.social
Coming in November, more #WalterSerner in translation, from @twistedspoon.bsky.social, who have also published his 'Last Loosening':

www.twistedspoon.com/last-looseni...

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July 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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prada-meinhof.bsky.social
“Avec les coupables comme avec leurs complices, avec les justificateurs de la guerre comme avec les falsificateurs de la paix, aucun compromis possible. A l'Europe insensée des régimes totalitaires, nous refusons d'opposer l'Europe révolue du Traité de Versailles même révisé.”
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Heute vor 105 Jahren, am 30. Juni 1920, wurde in der Galerie Dr. Otto Burchard in Berlin die von George Grosz,, Raoul Hausmann & John Heartfield organisierte Erste Internationale Dada-Messe eröffnet.
Plakat zur Ausstellung Die Bewegung Dada führt zur Aufhebung des Kunsthandels ERSTE INTERNATIONALE DADA-MESSE
June 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
Die Erste Internationale Dada-Messe war eine von Dadaisten organisierte Ausstellung vom 30. Juni - zum 25. August 1920 in Berlin. Die Messe war eine Absage an die bürgerliche Kultur. Sie dokumentierte die künstlerische Kreativität, welche die Dada-Revolte freigesetzt hatte.

Man sieht einen Raum, in dem viele Menschen sich aufhalten. An der Decke hängt eine Puppe. An der Wand sind viele Gemälde, alles etwas ungeordnet.
June 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
dadaists.bsky.social
Interesting review of Koerner's 'Art in a State of Siege' in the latest @lrb.co.uk, featuring Bosch, #Kentridge and Beckmann:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Pinstriped Tycoon: Siege Art
To what extent is the meaning of an artwork – or a piece of architecture or any made thing – bound up with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Hannah Höch,
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 Dada artist #WomensArt
Artwork with collage of eyes taken from magazines and newspapers and arranged as a boquet against an orange background
May 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
dadaists.bsky.social
Lee Miller retrospective coming up at the Tate Britain:

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#Surrealism #WomensArt
UK’s largest Lee Miller retrospective to be held at Tate Britain
Exhibition will showcase her entire career, from French surrealism to fashion and war photography
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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“Il n'y a pas de crimes de droit commun.”

‘Ouvrez les prisons, licenciez l'armée’, tract anonyme, dans La Révolution Surréaliste #2, janvier 1925.
January 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Welcome to the public domain, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the surrealist short from Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí that shocked cinema with dream logic, stark imagery & one gruesome eyeball.

More. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomain #InternetArchive
May 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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artherstory.bsky.social
The first-ever posthumous retrospective show on this artist opens June 6 at Kunsthaus Zurich, www.kunsthaus.ch/en/besuch-pl...

With c. 50 paintings, 20 works on paper, as well as rare archival materials and vintage photographs, the exhibition presents a wide-ranging overview of Duchamp’s oeuvre.
Digital exhibition banner with an abstract image and the text "fabrique de joie" to the left, exhibition title and dates to the right (in black text on a white background).
May 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
dadaists.bsky.social
Another fine piece in 'The Avant Garde Women' series by Jim Richardson:

Avant Garde Women: Elsa the Dada Baroness, Djuna Barnes and Margaret Anderson
www.perfectduluthday.com/2025/05/03/a...

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Avant Garde Women: Elsa the Dada Baroness, Djuna Barnes and Margaret Anderson - Perfect Duluth Day
Introduction The story of Elsa the Dada Baroness transpired in a milieu of literary queer feminist icons circa World War I. This story was best told in 1930, in the book My Thirty Years’ War by Margar...
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May 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
dadaists.bsky.social
Died #OTD 3 May 1955, Rudolf Schlichter, co-creator (with John Heartfield) of the notorious 'Prussian Archangel', a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head.

Displayed at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, the organizers were charged with "insulting the Reichswehr" because of it.
Photo of the opening of the First International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, with Schlichter's and Heartfield's 'Prussian Archangel' (a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head) hanging from the ceiling.
May 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM