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Dada began as a prank that got out of hand. Which is also how most art careers start.

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Dada began in Zurich in 1916 as an anti-war, anti-establishment art movement, centered on the Cabaret Voltaire. It was a deliberate response to World War I, not a prank that got out of hand.

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