Word: dada
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday's aggro and shock, today's museum relic. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing...
...death; and, frequently, the use of a central conceit, sometimes quite fantastic, to structure his poems. This last tendency is best illustrated in The Museum of Clear Ideas, Hall's 1993 book, in which one poem is framed as his explanation the game of baseball to Kurt Schwitters, the Dada collagist...
...assembly of junk into metaphoric objects has an ancestry that goes back to Surrealism and German Dada. Joseph Cornell in the 1940s was the first American to base a whole oeuvre on it; Robert Rauschenberg in the '50s picked up on him; and Kienholz in the '60s on Rauschenberg. But whereas Cornell was butterfly gentle and Rauschenberg effusively open, Kienholz was a raging satirist attached to the view from over the top. Show him any kind of Establishment, and he loathed it. Almost from the start his work was about social pain, madness, estrangement. He hated all cant, including...
...Celts" throbbed with more than just ordinary energy and enthusiasm. From the raging men in kilts to the heartbroken lovers twirling across stage to the fields filled with nearly-glowing fairies, every movement pulsed with free-flowing passion. Costume designer Tunji Dada displayed nothing short of brillinace by setting the fairies' stunning off-white rags, the head dancer's billowing black ensemble, and the lovers' deep crimson costumes against a deep gray backdrop of threatening thunderclouds. The energy of the coming storm pulsed through the thunderous music and the lightning-quick motions of the dancers, ensnaring the audience and lifting...
...pieces in the inaugural issue range from computer-enhanced graphics to an art review of a Neo-Dada exhibit to a parody of Cliff Notes...