John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

In 1967, in the course of a visit to Moscow, I was entertained one evening in the apartment of a young man who seemed to know a lot about the life of art in the Soviet Union at that time. He may also ...

Has avant-garde fashion gone the way of the hobble skirt? It would seem so at a time when the biggest names are playing it safe, few young designers are touting unorthodox clothing styles and ...

The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions, oscillating between excitement at its glamour and scorn at its pretensions. The term carries an association of being daring, ...

Though portraiture is one of the oldest and most traditional art genres, it has consistently proven a potent starting point for artistic experimentation. At Paris gallery Hélène Bailly, the exhibition ...

In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

With its recent acquisition of 11 Japanese avant-garde photographic works last month, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden hopes to incorporate “an unprecedented critical history of the postwar ...

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience 30 beautiful, provocative, and poetic avant-garde films that are part of “21st Century Limited: Experimental Films 2000-2009” on July 18th and 25th.

As summer comes to a close, that can only mean one thing for the local maker community here in Northeast Ohio. It’s the start of fall/winter festival season. The Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show Avon Fall ...

“My relationship with prog is a complex thing, which has to do with my feelings about the 70s,” muses Paddy McAloon. “That period was very, very interesting. I reject the whole typical BBC documentary ...