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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 11h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d

#OtD 4 Oct 1884 anarchist poet, essayist, playwright, musician, actor, translator and Dadaist Jun Tsuji was born in Tokyo. Among the works he translated into Japanese is individualist anarchist Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 12d

Suzanne Duchamp retrospective coming to the Schirn Gallery in Frankfurt:

www.schirn.de/en/exhibitio...

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Suzanne Duchamp | SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT

The SCHIRN is dedicating the world’s first comprehensive solo exhibition to the pioneer of the Dada movement, Suzanne Duchamp (1889–1963). The retrospective shows her multifaceted oeuvre as an artist ...

www.schirn.de

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 12d

On Suzanne Duchamp:

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

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Suzanne Duchamp, the Mama of Dada, Made Absurdism Sparkle and Shine

Work in her traveling retrospective (Kunsthaus Zurich and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt) perpetuates Dada's playfulness without its wry, cold affect.

www.artnews.com

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 27d

Met has received the Bluff Collection of #Dada and #Surrelaist works:
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...

and set up a research centre into Dada & Surrealism:
www.metmuseum.org/research-cen...

A Blockbuster Trove of Dada and Surrealist Masterpieces Arrives at the Met

Donated by a billionaire trustee, the Bluff Collection features key works by artists like Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 27d

Starting next week at the Met, New York:

Man Ray: When Objects Dream

www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

#Dada #Surrealism #ManRay

Man Ray: When Objects Dream - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

American artist Man Ray (1890–1976) was a visionary known for his radical experiments that pushed the limits of photography, painting, sculpture, and film.

www.metmuseum.org

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 28

#OtD 28 Jul 1887 the French-American artist, painter, sculptor, writer, chess player and anarchist Marcel Duchamp was born. A key figure in the Dada movement, Duchamp helped revolutionise the art world stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 8

#OtD 8 Jul 1940 Yoshiyuki Eisuke (吉行エイスケ), Japanese Dadaist poet, novelist and anarchist, died at the age of just 34 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1080...

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · Jul 8

Coming in November, more #WalterSerner in translation, from @twistedspoon.bsky.social, who have also published his 'Last Loosening':

www.twistedspoon.com/last-looseni...

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prada meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · Jul 3

“Avec les coupables comme avec leurs complices, avec les justificateurs de la guerre comme avec les falsificateurs de la paix, aucun compromis possible. A l'Europe insensée des régimes totalitaires, nous refusons d'opposer l'Europe révolue du Traité de Versailles même révisé.”

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Scharfrichter (Peter Walther) @archilocheion.net · Jun 30

Heute vor 105 Jahren, am 30. Juni 1920, wurde in der Galerie Dr. Otto Burchard in Berlin die von George Grosz,, Raoul Hausmann & John Heartfield organisierte Erste Internationale Dada-Messe eröffnet.

Plakat zur Ausstellung
Die Bewegung Dada führt zur Aufhebung des Kunsthandels
ERSTE INTERNATIONALE
DADA-MESSE

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · Jun 30

Die Erste Internationale Dada-Messe war eine von Dadaisten organisierte Ausstellung vom 30. Juni - zum 25. August 1920 in Berlin. Die Messe war eine Absage an die bürgerliche Kultur. Sie dokumentierte die künstlerische Kreativität, welche die Dada-Revolte freigesetzt hatte.

Man sieht einen Raum, in dem viele Menschen sich aufhalten. An der Decke hängt eine Puppe. An der Wand sind viele Gemälde, alles etwas ungeordnet.

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · May 28

Interesting review of Koerner's 'Art in a State of Siege' in the latest @lrb.co.uk, featuring Bosch, #Kentridge and Beckmann:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hal Foster · Pinstriped Tycoon: Siege Art

To what extent is the meaning of an artwork – or a piece of architecture or any made thing – bound up with the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · May 28

Hannah Höch,
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 Dada artist #WomensArt

Artwork with collage of eyes taken from magazines and newspapers and arranged as a boquet against an orange background

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · May 22

Lee Miller retrospective coming up at the Tate Britain:

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#Surrealism #WomensArt

UK’s largest Lee Miller retrospective to be held at Tate Britain

Exhibition will showcase her entire career, from French surrealism to fashion and war photography

www.theguardian.com

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prada meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · Jan 4

“Il n'y a pas de crimes de droit commun.”

‘Ouvrez les prisons, licenciez l'armée’, tract anonyme, dans La Révolution Surréaliste #2, janvier 1925.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · May 12

Welcome to the public domain, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the surrealist short from Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí that shocked cinema with dream logic, stark imagery & one gruesome eyeball.

More. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomain #InternetArchive

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · May 7

The first-ever posthumous retrospective show on this artist opens June 6 at Kunsthaus Zurich, www.kunsthaus.ch/en/besuch-pl...

With c. 50 paintings, 20 works on paper, as well as rare archival materials and vintage photographs, the exhibition presents a wide-ranging overview of Duchamp’s oeuvre.

Digital exhibition banner with an abstract image and the text "fabrique de joie" to the left, exhibition title and dates to the right (in black text on a white background).

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · May 7

Another fine piece in 'The Avant Garde Women' series by Jim Richardson:

Avant Garde Women: Elsa the Dada Baroness, Djuna Barnes and Margaret Anderson
www.perfectduluthday.com/2025/05/03/a...

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Avant Garde Women: Elsa the Dada Baroness, Djuna Barnes and Margaret Anderson - Perfect Duluth Day

Introduction The story of Elsa the Dada Baroness transpired in a milieu of literary queer feminist icons circa World War I. This story was best told in 1930, in the book My Thirty Years’ War by Margar...

www.perfectduluthday.com

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · May 3

Died #OTD 3 May 1955, Rudolf Schlichter, co-creator (with John Heartfield) of the notorious 'Prussian Archangel', a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head.

Displayed at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, the organizers were charged with "insulting the Reichswehr" because of it.

Photo of the opening of the First International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, with Schlichter's and Heartfield's 'Prussian Archangel' (a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head) hanging from the ceiling.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Apr 30

#OtD 30 Apr 1883 author Jaroslav Hašek was born in Prague. Whilst most famous for writing the satirical anti-war masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk, Hasek was also a soldier, an anarchist, a PoW, a drunk, a dog-stealer, a cook and much more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1025...

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · Apr 28

The Atlas Press website has been restored:
atlaspress.co.uk
(following an unfortunate deletion).

Publishers of many finetranslations of #dada works, and other enthused literatures.

Atlas Press – Publishers Of The "Anti-Tradition" Since 1983

atlaspress.co.uk

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Apr 26

#OtD 26 Apr 1905 Surrealist and anarchist filmmaker, Jean Vigo, was born in Paris. Zero for Conduct (1933), his most famous film, was banned for "Praise of indiscipline and attacking the prestige of the educational institution" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9796...

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · Apr 26

No degenerate art

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · Apr 23

#OTD in 1916: Arthur Cravan boxes (and is roundly beaten by) Jack Johnson in Barcelona.

Cravan's own - implausible - account:
archive.org/details/jsto...

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Arthur Cravan vs. Jack Johnson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Arthur Cravan vs. Jack Johnson is an article from The Soil, Volume 1. View more articles from The Soil.View this article on JSTOR.View this article's JSTOR...

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