Tag: Dada

Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds

As well as 80 photomontages by the artist seen as one of the inventors of the medium, this major retrospective includes paintings, drawings, prints and archival material, alongside projections of films by contemporaries by whom she was inspired, including Hans…
Nancy Fouts: ‘I once made a slingshot out of Jesus and had his head worn like a necklace. Someone stole it. That was a nice compliment’

Nancy Fouts brings her trademark baroque theatricality, dada mischief and love of a good pun to Flowers Gallery in London with a decade’s worth of visual treats
William Kentridge: ‘One needs sometimes to show the power of the irrational world as a demonstration of the limits of the rational world’

William Kentridge talks about his recent performance of Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate, dadaists and interpreting the world
James Richards: ‘I was really into making an exhibition space where there would be nothing to look at’

The artist, who will be representing Wales in Venice (Cymru yn Fenis) at next year’s biennale, talks about his processes of collaging together digital fragments to create immersive audiovisual installations
Liliane Lijn: interview

When Liliane Lijn (b1939) invites us to her studio in north London, on one of the wettest and windiest days of the year, we come bundled up in jumpers, expecting a large, cold, warehouse-type setting, but, instead, we are met…
Hannah Höch

Whitechapel Gallery, London 15 January – 23 March 2014
The Mike Kelley Retrospective

The Museum of Modern Art, PS1, Long Island City, New York 13 October 2013 – 2 February 2014
Man Ray

This major retrospective of Man Ray at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh is a highlight of the Edinburgh Festival programme. Displaying more than 100 works, it takes the visitor chronologically through the life and career of Man Ray…
Dada Revisited for the 21st Century

Dada Pompidou Centre, Paris 5 October 2005-9 January 2006 It is not often that an art exhibition ascends to the condition of a total artwork in itself, and at the same time acts as a timely reminder of the true…
New York Commentary, June 1968

Studio International, June 1968, vol.175, no.901, pp.320-322