The Cranky Prof visited the DaDa exhibit at the MoMA and says:

So why do I like Dada so much, I the medievalist? Well, it’s because I’m not a classicist, however much I teach it. I prefer Romanesque sculpture to Gothic and Carolingian painting to Romanesque. I like conceptualism more than naturalism and firmly believe that the adjective ‘slavish’ should never be far away from the latter. Dada has its problems — I’m not in favor of rebellion for the sake of rebellion, after all. I am in favor of rebellion against the religion of art — whether that of the 19th century academy or the late 20th century blockbuster. And anyone who draws a mustache on the Mona Lisa, instead of turning her into a portrait of the Magdalen, is a friend of mine.

Not an art historian or an art anything, by any means…my instincts are with Cranky Prof!