Dada

A Haiku Not For the Squeamish by John J. Dunphy Just published today: 3/4/23. John J. Dunphy’s poetry collections include Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, Touching Each Tree, pagan rites, Bullet Cluster, Stellar Possibility and Dark Nebulae. He is also the author of non-fiction works such as Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945–1947.

Read at the first public Dada soirée, Zurich, July 14, 1916. — Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. It is terribly simple. In French it means “hobby horse.” In German it…

How many times has someone said to me, “the only thing you can control is yourself!”? And I’m like: WHAT?! I’m apologizing and shamed over tons of things I’ve done. If I had control over myself, I’d be a much better person. Not just the popping offs I wish I…

Throughout history, it hasn’t been as easy for women to dedicate themselves professionally to art as men, since, due to a series of moral and gender prejudices, they have been reduced to conjugal, maternal and domestic life; Even so, there have been many women who, above all obstacles and conventions…

In the aftermath of WW1, the function of the domestic tool no longer seemed to compute, and the same man who used it to smooth his trousers now saw a tool he could wield as a weapon. Surrealist artist Man Ray arrives in Paris in 1921 and begins his contributions…