Category Archives: Dada
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Dada, 1920
The opening of the “First International Dada Fair” in Berlin 100 years ago
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
An unsettling incident
Johannes Baader and one of the very first art interventions, 100 years ago today in Berlin
An unsettling incident
Johannes Baader and one of the very first art interventions, 100 years ago today in Berlin
The Blind Man
100 years since the radical journal by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood and Henri-Pierre Roché brought Dada to New York
The Blind Man
100 years since the radical journal by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood and Henri-Pierre Roché brought Dada to New York
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
“Suicide must be a vocation”
“You are all poets and I’m on the side of death.” It’s Demotivational Quote of the Day brought to you by everyone’s favourite Dadaist nihilist, Jacques Rigaut.
“Suicide must be a vocation”
“You are all poets and I’m on the side of death.” It’s Demotivational Quote of the Day brought to you by everyone’s favourite Dadaist nihilist, Jacques Rigaut.
Places: Architektenhaus
A major pre-Dada event, 100 years ago today
15 books for 2015
Bricktop, Baron Corvo and Bertolt Brecht join a cast of…oh, about two dozen
14 books for 2014
Books, books, books – dirty and otherwise
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven | poems
The “Dada Baroness” blurs the line between art and poetry
Dress-down Friday: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
The baroness is dressed to distress…
The Bearded Heart
Dadaists v Surrealists: the final round.
Arthur Cravan Memorial Society
A radio tribute to everyone’s favourite boxing poet.
Pearls: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
The baroness offers punctuation as unusual as her itinerary
I am such miserable thing
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s letters make pretty difficult reading in every sense (deciphering the handwriting, parsing her eccentric syntax and then encountering the desolation of her life).
I am such miserable thing
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s letters make pretty difficult reading in every sense (deciphering the handwriting, parsing her eccentric syntax and then encountering the desolation of her life).
Strange Flowers 