dada is ...history 1912

In this chronology I will try to make a day to day account of the activities of dadaists in the cities Barcelona, Berlin, Hannover, Köln, New York, Paris, Zürich and the country Holland.
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February
Paris Marcel Duchamp meets the Italian Futurist painters Boccioni and Severini at hte Futurist exhibition in Galerie Bernheim-Jeune.
Munich: Hans Arp takes part in the second exhibition of the Blaue Reiter.
March
Paris Marcel Duchamp's painting Nu descendu une escalier (Nude Descending a Staircase) creates a scandal and is withdrawn from the Salon des Indépendants.
Berlin Founding of galery and magazine Der Sturm, which was run by Herwarth Walden untill 1915.
April
Paris Arthur Cravan publishes the first issues of Maintenant. With it he is already working out the strategy of scandal, which will later be addopted by other dada groups.
May
Paris Marcel Duchamp, Gabrielle Buffet, Francis Picabia and Apollinaire attend a performance of the stage version of Raymond Roussel's Impression d'Afrique in Théâtre Antoine.
Berlin expositions of Futurism in Der Sturm.
Fall
Berlin Meeting between Hugo Ball & Richard Huelsenbeck.
October
Paris dissident exhibition Section d'Or at Galerie Floury at the instigation of Francis Picabia.