EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Director
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
American, 1902–1981
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
13 December 1936
FANTASY IN PERSPECTIVE; The Museum of Modern Art Opens Show Of Dada and Surrealism, Old and New
OUT of nihilism came Dada. Nihilism is almost as old as the human race, but Dada, its twentieth century bundle of neurasthenic chills and fever, uttered the first tentative yell of protest against every thing on earth in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich about two years after the World War started.
New York Times • page X11 • 1,450 words