In his 1918 Dada manifesto, Tristan Tzara, one of the founding fathers of the movement, wrote: “It was necessary in the era of the [First] World War, to ask about the sense and utility and general use ...

“In Zurich, not involved in the slaughterhouses of the world war, we dedicated ourselves to the fine arts. While in the distance gunfire rumbled, we glued paper, read our works, wrote poetry, and sang ...

One hundred years ago today, on July 14, 1916, an avant-garde European artistic and literary movement called Dadaism—or simply Dada—was officially born in Zurich, Switzerland. World War I was in full ...

Risley Residential College hosted its first Dada Ball on Friday in the college's Great Hall as a gesture of thanks from Gordon Sander '73 for his reappointment as this year's guest suite artist.