MoMA's DADAGLOBE-Nada to Trek to Go See

DADAGLOBE which opens to the public on Sunday at the MoMA is an ambitious attempt by Tristan Tzara & Francis Picabia to create an anthology of the Dada Art Movement.  For those unfamiliar with either Tzara & Picabia (which included me) Tzara (b. Romania 1896-1963) was a poet, playwright & art critic.  Picabia (b. France 1897-1953) was a poet & painter associated with cubism, surrealism & dadism.  Dadaism is considered artistic anarchy stemming from rebellion towards social, political & cultural norms or values of the epoch (1915-1924.)  The quandary created by Tzara & Picabia in requesting (via mail) samples of art, prose & poetry from 50 artists in 10 different countries, stipulating constraints on their works is hypocritical to a rebellious, avant garde art form.  Works conforming to standards of expectations are not rebellious.  My 1st connotation of DaDa art is Duchamp's urinal or non-functional bicycle.  There were few sculptures in the exhibit.  Two were highlights of the show:  a wooden head, a fragment from a Brancusi sculpture and "Dada Head" by Sophie Taeuber (b. Swiss 1989-1943); the lone female artist.  Most of the works were photographs mostly of similar size.  The photos by Man Ray & Marcel DuChamp were intriguing.  Some of the photos were of works by Jean Arp & Brancusi.  Needless, the homogeneous sized black/white photos had a commonality that mocked originality.  Tzara & Picabia requested a limited palette of 3 colors for original drawings/paintings which again defies creative freedom.  There are numerous handwritten prose/poetry submitted that didn't garner my interest.  Financial difficulties & "artistic" differences between Tzara & Picabia were blamed for the project not coming to fruition.  Possibly, the reason their project flopped was they intuited their approach yielded Dada art passe.