By Timothy Shipe University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections is pleased to announce the acquisition of the library and papers of noted Romanian-American writer Andrei Codrescu. Comprising approximately eighty linear feet of manuscripts, books, audiovisual material, digital media, art works, and ephemera, this acquisition is a major addition to the University Libraries’ literary collections, andContinue reading “New Acquisition: Andrei Codrescu Papers”
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February 5th: 100th Anniversary of Dada
By Timothy Shipe, Curator of the International Dada Archive Friday, February 5 marks the 100th anniversary of Dada, the avant-garde literary and artistic movement that started in the neutral city of Zurich in the midst of World War I. On February 5, 1916, a group of exiled artists and writers opened the Cabaret Voltaire, anContinue reading “February 5th: 100th Anniversary of Dada”