Regularly circulating current events through both text and image, newspapers have acted as both a material and subject in modern and contemporary art. In the early years of the 20th century with the Cubist experiments of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque , artists began collaging everyday elements like newsprint, pasted pieces of colored paper, and fabric, considered at the time to be an audacious intermingling of high and low culture. Inspired by Cubist experiments, artists associated with Dada—particularly the movement’s Berlin branch—Hannah Hoch, Richard Huelsenbeck, John Heartfield, and others pioneered the technique of photomontage, using pre-existing photographs, often drawn from mass-media sources like newspapers, to create composite images that sharply critiqued German society and culture in the aftermath of World War I. Neo-avant-garde artists of the 1950s like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns frequently used newspapers for their three dimensional collages called combines or assemblages, as did Pop artists who parodied the lifestyles peddled in advertising through the direct inclusion of its imagery. More recently, newspapers have been a recurring focus for the Pictures Generation, including photographer Sarah Charlesworth who deconstructed the way newspapers use photographs by blanking out everything on different newspapers’ front pages except for their photographs and mastheads. Today artists such as Taryn Simon, Brad Grievson , Robert Gober , and Mateo Mate are continuing to find inspiration from newspapers at a time when they exist as both analog and digital.