Dadaglobe Reconstructed: Reviving Tristan Tzara's Lost Dada Anthology Through Exhibition and Publication

After six years of dedicated work, art historian Adrian Sudhalter has reconstructed the unrealized Dada anthology, Dadaglobe, originally envisioned by Tristan Tzara in 1921. This endeavor, which commenced in 2009, was inspired by Sudhalter's discovery of enigmatic numbers on Dada artworks within MoMA's collection, linked to Tzara's intended publication. Planned in late 1920, Dadaglobe was designed to be a 160-300 page anthology with a print run of 10,000 copies by La Sirène, featuring contributions from fifty artists across ten nations. The project was ultimately abandoned in 1921 when Picabia stepped away from Dada. The exhibition debuted at Kunsthaus Zurich from February 5 to May 1, 2016, followed by a showing at MoMA New York from June 12 to September 18, 2016. The accompanying book includes scholarly essays and a facsimile of the anthology.