Russian Dada 1914 – 1924 edited by Margarita Tupitsyn (2018) is published by The MIT Press. “What is Dada?” reads a famous Dadaist poster: “An art form? A philosophy? A politics?” It is fair to say ...

An evening of pseudo-revolution in New York. “Bourgeois slobs!” screamed one demonstrator. “Go to Schrafft’s!” sneered another. The objects of the invective were à la mode art-establishment types ...

But Dada would die out in less than a decade and has not had the kind of major museum retrospective it deserves, until now. The Dada exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (on ...