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Three Rooms Press presents2026 NYC ¡DADA! DO 2
A Highly Eclectic DADA Salon and The Official NYC launch of MAINTENANT 20: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art
Sunday, October 25, 2026 | 1:30–4:30 pm
NYPL Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave., New York, NY | Free Admission
An afternoon of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press and Jefferson Market Library present 2026 NYC ¡DADA! DO 2, a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading NYC-area maverick artists.
The event is the second of three NYC launch events for the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 20: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, which features more than 240 visual and literary works by artists and writers from 36 countries and six continents. The event takes place Sunday, October 25, 1:30 –4 pm at YPL Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave. in Greenwich Village. Admission is free. Doors open 1pm. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.
The line-up features live performances from celebrated contemporary DADA artists including Austin Alexis, Amy Barone, Robert C. Ford, Thomas Fucaloro, Phillip Giambri, Bibbe Hansen, Heide Hatry & Jane LeCroy (aka The Red Sisters), Matthew Hupert, Jerry Johnson, Eliot Katz, Linda Kleinbub, David Lawton, Patricia Leonard, Linda Lerner, Lawrence Miles, Uche Nduka, Yuko Otomo, John Pietaro, Angela Sloan, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.
MAINTENANT 20: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the latest of the ongoing annual MAINTENANT DADA journal series, established in 2008. This year’s issue features work on the them of IMPROPERGANDA.
The MAINTENANT series is archived in leading international institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art–New York, BelVUE Museum–Brussels, Centre Pompidou—Paris, and more. Contributors have included such artists Raymond Pettibon, Molly Crabapple, Mark Kostabi, Fred Tomaselli, Nicole Eisenman, Edel Rodriguez, and Kazunori Murakami, along with writers William S. Burroughs, Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Jack Hirschman, and Jerome Rothenberg, with a strong contingent of punk musician-artist-writers including Grant Hart, Mike Watt, Exene Cervenka, Thurston Moore, and Alice Bag.
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Jefferson Market Library, 421 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011-8427, United States
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