Just to let you know, in advance of some gexciting news, I’ve set up a Twitter account for all things dadaist:

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An english translation of Walter Serner’s first collection of short stories has just been published by Wakefield Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

http://wakefieldpress.com/serner_monkey.html

And Twisted Spoon Press (Prague) are due to publish his infamous ‘Last Loosening’ in July:

http://www.twistedspoon.com/last-loosening.html

The Barbican in London (in collaboration with the Belvedere of Vienna, a very fine museum) is presenting “Into The Night”, an exhibition on nightclubs and cabaret related to modern art. I’ve not seen it yet, but the Cabaret Voltaire does feature, as does the work of Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp in the recreation of L’Aubette.

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There is an exhibition of some of John Heartfields’s works on in London at the Four Corners gallery until February 1st 2020.

HEARTFIELD: ONE MAN’S WAR

“Revisiting the father of photomontage, John Heartfield. Armed with scissors, paste and acerbic wit, Heartfield used art as a political weapon. Risking his life under Hitler’s Third Reich, he s…[Read more]

CFP: New York Dada (Loughborough, 14-15 May 20)

Loughborough University, May 14 – 15, 2020

Deadline: Dec 9, 2019

Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of New York Dada

Over the course of the 1920s, Dada became one of the driving forces of avant-garde art production in New York. This cosmopolitan, transatlantic art movement stimulated i…[Read more]