#OTD in 1916: Arthur Cravan boxes (and is roundly beaten by) Jack Johnson in Barcelona.
Cravan's own - implausible - account:
https://archive.org/details/jstor-20542322/page/n1/mode/2up
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First retrospective of Suzanne Duchamp, at the Kunsthaus Zürich:
https://www.kunsthaus.ch/en/besuch-planen/ausstellungen/suzanne-duchamp/
Just found that the full text of Michel Sanouillet's #Dada à Paris is freely available via OpenEdition:
Dada à Paris
Le mouvement Dada a été fondé à Zurich par Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball et Jean Arp et s’est manifesté sous des formes diverses mais toujours subversives, dans plusieurs pays. C’est à Paris qu’il allait atteindre son intensité maximale entre 1919 et 1923. Période brève mais marquée par de nombreuses publications, des manifestations et des expositions provocatrices ainsi que par le ralliement d’André Breton, Paul Eluard et Philippe Soupault, représentants d’une tendance qui devait conduire au surréalisme. Dada à Paris est l’ouvrage de référence sur ce mouvement. Nous vous proposons une édition entièrement revue, corrigée et augmentée de nombreux documents inédits.
New #OpenAccess article:
From the Battered Trenches: Embodiments of Death in Word and Image from the Great War
by Allyson Kreuiter
Discusses Otto Dix, amongst others.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18125441.2024.2443750
Now on at the Musée Picasso, Paris:
"DEGENERATE" ART : Modern art on trial under the Nazis
which sounds like it has depth:
"At the heart of this story is the term "degeneracy", which emerged in the nineteenth century in various disciplines (natural history, medicine, anthropology, art history, etc.)"
https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/degenerate-art-modern-art-trial-under-nazis
#OTD 22 February, 1886: Birth of Hugo Ball, one of the founders of the Cabaret Voltaire:
#OTD 12 February 1915:
An important 'pre-dada' event, the 'memorial for fallen poets', French and German alike, featuring a furious 'Literary Manifesto' by Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck, in the Berlin Architektenhaus:
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/places-architektenhaus/
Now on in #Berlin until 27th April:
FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography
UbuWeb returns:
"A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. .... But now, with the political changes in America and elsewhere around the world, we have decided to restart our archiving and regrow Ubu. In a moment when our collective memory is being systematically eradicated, archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression."