Leave it to the legendary R. Crumb to give a spin to heroism and cartoons, two words that no one ever thought would be in the same sentence unless you were talking Superman.
This month on The Atlantic magazine, in an article entitled “The Death Of The Artist and The Birth of The Creative Entrepreneur”, William Deresiewicz laments the demise of artists as we know them. Iconoclastic loners with a streak of genius, creating art by themselves, misunderstood or lauded…
We are appalled at the barbaric murder of 8 cartoonists and other staff of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. It is hard to express our outrage at such insanity. Perhaps the reason is that one cannot argue with irrationality. It is irrational to kill someone over their…
We’re glad you ask! DADA is an online community for visual artists. We are more than just a place where you can hang your art and nobody really knows who you are. At DADA you can show who you are and what you do by drawing.
This witty illustrator from Istanbul always makes us smile with his quirky take on the world and his smart use of color. His drawings are a joy.
We had geishas, wizards, samurai, tropical birds, wintry penguins and the snowpocalypse. All this and more by artists on dada.nyc.
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“When I’m drawing — and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning — I have the impression at certain moments of participating in something like a visceral function, such as digestion or sweating, a function that is independent of the conscious will. This impression is…
Director Tim Burton’s Big Eyes is more conventional than his usual whimsical productions. Yet it is a highly unsettling movie about the bizarre real life story of wannabe artist Keane and his wife Margaret Ulbrich, who painted portraits of children with humongous eyes that became popular…