Dadaism's 100th anniversary.

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Long Matthew Sweet looks at the founding of the Dada movement 100 years ago in Zurich, as the city celebrates the anniversary with a series of exhibitions and cabarets which run throughout the year.

New Generation Thinker Will Abberley visits an exhibition in Oxford that plays with our notion of time as Modern Art Oxford begins a year-long celebration of 50 years, Kaleidoscope, with a show called The Indivisible Present.

Janet Street Porter and Michael Grade debate when does a celebrity become a 'national treasure', and what exactly does the term mean?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:23.3	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's
0:27.5	out of ice cream.
0:28.8	Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.
0:32.0	Thanks very much, Ian.
0:33.4	I hereby declared that Zara invented the word Dada on the 6th of February 1916 at 6pm.
0:40.4	I was there with my 12 children when Zara first uttered the word.
0:44.7	It happened in the Café de la Terrace in Zurich
0:47.5	and I was wearing a brioche in my left nostril.
0:50.8	So can I ask, does everybody here have their brioche?
0:54.1	Sandeep in Liverpool? Are you sorted?
0:56.6	Yes, absolutely. Will in Oxford? Yep, got it. Looking good.
1:00.1	Is it a plain one or is it a chocolate chip one, Will? It's a chocolate chip one. Okay. Michael in London with me.
1:05.8	You've got yours. Could we all pick them up now and insert them into our left nostrils?
1:11.4	Everybody done that?
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:13.5	Yeah?
1:13.8	Okay, right.
1:14.9	Let's sing the song.
1:16.9	Happy birthday to you.
1:20.4	Happy birthday to you.
1:23.8	Happy birthday, dear da-da.
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