“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930, the first in-depth examination of Orphism, which emerged in Paris among a cosmopolitan group of artists in the early 1910s—when changes brought on by modernity were radically altering notions of time and… Read More
All posts tagged “Francis Picabia”
Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction at The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2016 – March 19, 2017
“A self-proclaimed “Funny Guy” and “artist of many genres,” Francis Picabia was born in Paris in 1879. His father was a Cuban-born Spaniard; his mother was French. He embraced this mixed lineage and occasionally extended it, declaring, “I was born in Paris to a Cuban,… Read More
Dadaglobe Reconstructed at The Museum of Modern Art, June 12 – September 18, 2016
“Dadaglobe Reconstructed will reunite over 100 works by more than 40 artists that were submitted to Tristan Tzara for his planned but unrealized 1921 anthology Dadaglobe. In Paris in late 1920, Tzara, a poet and a co-founder of Dada, drew up a proposal for an ambitious… Read More



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