In the work’s only avant-garde touch, a thick wire extended from Miss Baker’s head, at the top of which hovered the object of wonder: a hummingbird. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The art establishment finds these artists too avant-garde in their use of light, a bright palette, visible brushstrokes, unusual composition, and strange angles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Albert Ayler was an amazing, avant-garde saxophonist known only to the most die-hard jazz enthusiasts. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor do I know whether accepting the lesson has placed me in the rear or in the avant-garde. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more difficult the mountain was to climb, the more avant-garde, the better, they believed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This officially confirmed their outsider status and made me an enemy of the avant-garde. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it is possible to date the chasm that was to develop between the populist mainstream and the classical avant-garde in music to this place and time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But as a regular of the festival, I’ve always been struck by its ambitious bridging of cultural specificity, social justice and the avant-garde, making it an exciting, expansive and revelatory cinematic experience. At the BlackStar Film Festival, a Revelatory Understanding of Cinema 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Mostly he remains unknown to the larger audience because his work is relegated to that ghetto known as American avant-garde cinema. The Startlingly Beautiful Films of Nathaniel Dorsky 2012-04-13T17:02:18Z

This adventurous gathering aims to push the limits of appreciable jazz with a focus on experimental and avant-garde strains. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z

By her late teens, Houston had been a featured vocalist on albums by disco songwriter Paul Jabara and the avant-garde New York funk outfit Material. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

Instead, some of them grew eccentric and adventurous, impulsive and experimental, instinctive and personal — at times, bordering on avant-garde. With Streaming, Musicians and Fans Find Room to Experiment and Explore 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Sous vide cooking, once strictly the province of professionals, is spreading to home kitchens as cheaper equipment puts the once avant-garde technique within reach. As sous vide appliance prices drop, home cooks are adopting 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

He survived a stabbing in 1972 by a leftist who considered his motifs too frivolous, and committed himself to presenting avant-garde versions of timeless tragedies that resonated with current events. Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Who Directed Avant-Garde Productions of Classics, Dies 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

“The importance of knowing who was part of the avant-garde and who was not fades with time,” Mr. Conlon writes. Silenced Voice, Heard Again 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z

There he became involved with some young avant-garde artists known as the Star Group, who painted in Western styles and railed against the Communist Party. Art Review: A Beijing Bohemian in the East Village 2011-07-28T23:14:41Z

Then he embarked on a 10-year stint with Cecil Taylor, a pioneer of free jazz, establishing himself as a protagonist on the avant-garde. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

But modern isn’t limited to just one definition or moment of the avant-garde, and its meaning changed over the several overlapping generations of artists who spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. William Merritt Chase, modernist in moderation 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

The 1950s was the time of the rise of a global avant-garde and the resurgence of abstract painting, two phenomena that define the art world of right this minute. Art Review: ‘Art of Another Kind’ at Guggenheim Museum 2012-06-14T20:12:14Z

Where that will leave the market for dead white male avant-garde artists is anyone’s guess. A ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ Is Coming. What Will It Mean for Art? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

But the work’s Gothic tint counted against it at its premiere, which took place at an avant-garde festival in France. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Giulio Caccini was one of the first to appropriate it for music theory, making it central to the aesthetic of the Stile Moderno, the avant-garde style of the early 17th century. At Juilliard, Can You Hear the Sprezzatura? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

And his desire to give offense or to be able to feign surprise when someone takes it has long guaranteed his permanent membership in the priesthood of the avant-garde. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z

Her second, "Holy Skirts," sympathetically reimagined a marginal figure in the early 20th century avant-garde who was usually dismissed as a nut job. Rene Steinke's 'Friendswood' visits a town toxic in many ways 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

There were a few interesting overtone combinations that emerged, as he oh so carefully inserted his microphones into the bell cavities as if playing an avant-garde version of “Operation.” Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z

The four works he conducted on Friday traced a path from his avant-garde roots to a neo-Romantic aesthetic. Music Review: Penderecki Conducts His Work at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-02T20:59:00Z

The American avant-garde cinema of the 1960s has long since been engulfed – as silent cinema also was – by the forward march of film history. Jonas Mekas: how a Lithuanian refugee redefined American cinema 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Grady, who is 86, and the descendant of Jamaican immigrants, taught Dadaism and Futurism at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and became known for her avant-garde Conceptual work. Biden Video Uses Artist’s Vision to Project a Unified Country 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Riding in hard to defend scraps of trashed culture is hardly an avant-garde position. ‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

The last was a rarity in the avant-garde world. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A sylph of a singer, Ms. Waters spent a few potent years on jazz’s avant-garde in the 1960s, then vanished. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Composers like Darius Milhaud — whose Surrealist ballet “Le Boeuf sur le Toit” was sometimes played in six-hand format at the club — joined other avant-garde artists for free-form evenings there in the 1920s. The Knights Kick Off 3-Year New York Residency 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

That more ideological approach has been the province, his many critics have said over the years, of the avant-garde director Hans Neuenfels, now 77. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Its constancy recalls Paul Valéry’s adage that “Everything changes but the avant-garde.” Dia Chelsea, Keeper of the Avant-Garde Flame 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Because you can rehearse the usual arguments about how impossible it might be for writing to be avant-garde, in this era when everything can be recuperated as orthodoxy. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

And that is part of Rainer’s avant-garde legacy, too: questioning and resisting the status quo. Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

She walks through his late years as a much lauded elder of the avant-garde collecting awards and honorary degrees with brisk courtesy. Lighting Out for the Territories With Ornette Coleman 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The younger Mr. O’Farrill released an incisive sextet album last year, “Boss Level,” spiced with hints of avant-garde improvising and aggressive, rocklike propulsion. Latin Jazz is Booming. Look Beyond the Grammys to Find It. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

In response to the events of 1968, the festival started the Directors’ Fortnight the next year to showcase more avant-garde works. At Cannes, a Rich History of Capturing Politics, Mores and Film Icons 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Strindberg folded the legend into a short story that he set here, written in 1898 and later published in the German avant-garde journal Quickborn with eerie illustrations by the painter Edvard Munch. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

With his reputation for avant-garde dishes featuring molecular gastronomic technique, Kahn turned his focus on vegetables at Destroyer in Culver City, California, open only for breakfast and lunch. Food and Wine magazine picks most promising U.S. chefs in 2017 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

One was the vibrant DakhaBrakha, a quartet from Kiev who are part of an avant-garde performance troupe. Bumbershoot 2014: The last word 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

This was a bracing time for Courtney, who said she relished working with van Hove and the avant-garde choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on their boldly staged revival, even when they tested her comfort zone. For Lorna Courtney of ‘& Juliet,’ New York Has Always Been Her Stage 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

Since then, the humble storefront that Allen opened on a lark, after spotting a for-rent sign on the Alvarado Street building, has hosted countless art installations, avant-garde musical events, lectures and wild public performances. After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Her house is filled with Mills’s DVDs — lots of Criterion Collection — but one night, at home alone, July wasn’t in the mood for avant-garde. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z

Toshi Ichiyanagi, an avant-garde pianist and composer whose works mixed international influences, made unusual use of musicians and instruments, and combined music with other media, died on Oct. Toshi Ichiyanagi, Avant-Garde Composer and Pianist, Dies at 89 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Phil has become a museum that also functions as an avant-garde gallery. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

In fact, Mr. Anderson’s collection emphasized the ordinary, or what his press notes called “avant-garde bland.” On the Runway: At London Fashion Week, an Emphasis on the Ordinary 2013-09-15T08:34:09Z

Mr. Calvani, known as a shocking young turk in Europe, has come up with a classic exercise in avant-garde theater that might have been written 50 years ago. Theater Review: ‘AdA,’ Plays by Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani at La MaMa 2012-10-05T22:24:29Z

A brilliantly subversive Belgian Surrealist with little patience for bohemian adventures, Magritte never fit in with the avant-garde, yet he became one of the most important painters of the 20th century. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

For Mr. Cronenberg, whose props have been exhibited in museums, is less a genre director with artistic aspirations than an avant-garde filmmaker who makes movies for general release. David Cronenberg's 'Scanners,' in a Blu-ray/DVD Edition 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

A group of 20 avant-garde artists in Brussels organized Les XX a year earlier. Neoimpressionism exhibit makes points about poetry, music's influence 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

The list below doesn’t aim to be comprehensive, but it represents a broad cross-section of avant-garde then and now, discussed by some of the foremost experimental musicians today. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Peli pressed the economy to minimalist extremes, as if he were making an old avant-garde short or a modern European angstathon. Paranormal Activity 3: Three?s a Shroud 2011-10-19T12:57:15Z

"Yeah, which is the holy grail: 'It's avant-garde but it's scary at the same time!'" DJ /rupture: how to sing like a sufi 2013-03-26T18:59:01Z

This avant-garde cultural center, known as KC Grad, is emblematic of how much Belgrade, the once-isolated Serbian capital, has evolved and opened up in the 10 years since Slobodan Milosevic’s regime collapsed. Next Stop: Belgrade Music Scene: Pop, Folk, Electronica and Politics 2010-06-10T18:37:00Z

He married Ms. Kraus in 1988, a few years after she invited him to see her first avant-garde performance, “Disparate Action/Desperate Action.” Chris Kraus, Author of ‘I Love Dick,’ Returns to the Bronx 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The contemporary collection focuses on avant-garde groups of the ’60s, the German scene, Pop Art and new media trends. In Transit Blog: A New Look for a Paris Art Museum 2013-08-07T18:21:32Z

It was as though audiences had suddenly drunk an intoxicating Boulez drug, transforming a complacent, timeless town into an avant-garde stronghold. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Inevitably, individuals less able to appreciate the avant-garde come into the gallery and ask, "Do people really wear this stuff?" Review: Fac?r? owner proudly wears her 70th year with a birthday show 2010-08-19T23:50:00Z

The myth of an avant-garde serves the same market forces avant-gardism pretends to overthrow. Abroad: Do-It-Yourself Culture Thrives Despite Globalism 2010-04-14T17:23:00Z

Conductors in opera know all too well what it is like to find themselves collaborating with an agenda-driven, avant-garde or simply unimaginative director. The Conductor Will Also Direct 2011-07-14T22:44:55Z

In a sense, Sternberg was an avant-garde filmmaker who found himself, by fluke and only for a short while, at the controls of the Hollywood machine, then operating at the peak of its otherworldly artificiality. DVDs: Three Silent Josef von Sternberg Reveries From Criterion 2010-08-21T05:00:00Z

“Here are people capable of responding to avant-garde art — and this was way before selfies.” Biden Video Uses Artist’s Vision to Project a Unified Country 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

These suggest a heightened attention to potential hazards, but they also evoke the joyous run-on reels of avant-garde diarists like the filmmaker Jonas Mekas. ‘I Didn’t See You There’ Review: A View From His Seat 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

By the time he relocated to Berlin in 1924, he was a leading member of the German avant-garde. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht

Writing about the avant-garde and the mainstream with equal intelligence, wit and high style, Mr. Hoberman bridged the critical traditions his predecessors had carved out. J. Hoberman Talks About Village Voice and Film Culture 2012-01-22T03:13:03Z

That the new piece is dedicated to the great Chicago avant-garde reed player Roscoe Mitchell, whom Sorey considers a mentor, is a good hint as to its flavor. Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Instead, they tried to hitch Mexican modernism to the wider avant-garde by imitating the promotional techniques of Dada and Futurism. Evolutionary tales 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

It seems as though half the midcentury American avant-garde came through Black Mountain in one capacity or the other. Learn By Painting 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Vigoda portrays a harried avant-garde music composer and single mom who communes with the explorer. How Ernest Shackleton inspired a romantic musical 2014-04-21T22:58:58Z

Bing was part of San Francisco’s avant-garde scene, hanging out with beatniks smoking Shermans and drinking Cognac before noon, Weinstein said. Ignored in Life, Bernice Bing Is Discovered as Museums Rewrite History 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Soon she was getting calls to perform around the avant-garde scene in Brooklyn, where she and Tamura eventually moved for a year and a half. Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

His rich, carefully shaded harmonies draw equally on gospel, R&B and the avant-garde. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Painting is at stake — and so is a conservative desire for the old avant-garde. Computers and Painting’s Identity Crisis 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

A concurrent exhibit examines how sports became a source of inspiration for avant-garde artists in Russia during the 1920s and ’30s. The Olympic Museum in Switzerland Reopens with Airy New Interiors 2014-02-12T05:00:00Z

In the seventies, young musicians enthralled by the new, collaborative possibilities of “free jazz” and avant-garde experimentation began moving to New York, where rents were cheap, loft spaces abundant, and zoning codes rarely enforced. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

In works for small groups, Foss was able to delve deeper into avant-garde experimentation than he generally could in writing for larger ensembles. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Akomfrah’s film checks off many artistic boxes, from the nonnarrative formalism of the cinematic avant-garde through the literary tradition of English heritage films to the political engagement of postcolonial critique. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z

Mr. Zorn’s idiom of juxtaposed dissonance and ethereality threatened to become too familiar by the end of Wednesday’s program, on a Miller stage that regularly presents work by a newer avant-garde. Review: John Zorn’s Spirit of Restless Invention Flows Forth 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

“I had a sense growing up that this was a very avant-garde house,” he said. Marcel Breuer House Demolished on Long Island, Angering Preservationists 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

The first thing I did was join an avant-garde theater company called Circle X Theater. Michaela Watkins on Breaking Out With 'Casual' and Surviving the Third-Life Crisis 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

It, too, has presented numerous plays since, many of them avant-garde, socially conscious works by Ms. Malpede, with Mr. Bartenieff in the casts. George Bartenieff, Fixture of Downtown Theater, Dies at 89 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

At various points it will seem as though you are listening to an electronica record, at other times to an R&B one, a jazz one, an avant-garde one, even a pop one. New band of the day – Sonnymoon (No 1,340) 2012-08-30T14:55:34Z

It was really rural, but appealed to my avant-garde tastes somehow,” he said. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Others are more avant-garde and incorporate acrobatic moves, or an arrhythmic dance known as flossing. Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Robinson is a bicoastal academic — an assistant professor of music at Amherst College who did his graduate work at the University of California, San Diego — with an artistic profile that skews emphatically avant-garde. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z

He was a founder of the avant-garde rock group Henry Cow, which formed in 1968 and ran for a decade. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z

She said the clothing, jewelry and accessories she designed were a fusion of avant-garde fashion with Caribbean styles and Dominican details. Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Collaborating with Brian Eno on the albums Low, Heroes and Lodger, Bowie nudged the avant-garde a little closer to the mainstream. How the 1970s Launched David Bowie's Career 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

A director mostly associated with avant-garde material, Mr. Scheib often makes works that feel unfinished. Review: In ‘Bat Out of Hell,’ Paradise by the LED Light 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mary Bauermeister, a German artist who played a signature role in the development of the freewheeling performance art of the 1960s avant-garde, died on March 2 at a hospice in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. Mary Bauermeister, Avant-Garde Artist and Host, Dies at 88 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

The performer, who bends genres as much as he bends gender, in performances that are a little bit torch song and a lot avant-garde, delivers vocals that offer sublime beauty and pain. Datebook: LACMA's new gifts, a show about performance, a special screening of 'Nosferatu' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde and the vanguard are synonymous terms originally used to describe the front lines of an advancing army — but art isn’t a war and Carti might be headed in the opposite direction anyway. Perspective | Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

At 16, he interned at Tokion, an avant-garde art and culture magazine in downtown New York. The Stylist Akeem Smith Turns Jamaican Dance Hall Into Art 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde is unimaginable without his contribution, and so is a good deal of what now constitutes the progressive mainstream. Review: Celebrating Cecil Taylor, a Pianist of Endless Influence 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

I play in an avant-garde club with a band that’s in crazy makeup and dresses. Conan O’Brien Thinks Alien Life Exists. And That It Will Disappoint. 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

You were very intent on making it an experimental band, of using what you learned in the avant-garde world in a rock context. Q. and A.: With John Cale in Paris and Along the Borderline 2013-01-15T15:30:12Z

“When you see it now, you see that it’s actually an avant-garde film,” said Mr. George, whose books include “Blackface: Reflections on African Americans and the Movies.” 2010-01-22T22:43:00Z

But the market for Russian avant-garde art began to develop in the 1970s and flowered with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The French avant-garde paintings assembled by the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin in the early 1900s were exhibited in the West, specifically Paris, for the first time two years ago. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

After World War II music became even purer with the emergence of the serial avant-garde: the “international gray on gray,” in the skeptical words of Olivier Messiaen. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z

“Anthracite Fields,” a five-part oratorio with roots in rock, classical chorales and the avant-garde, may look to the past, but it is anything but nostalgic. As Trump Tries to Revive Coal, an Oratorio Confronts Mining’s Past 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Most avant-garde horn players then were letting go of the piano and all other chordal instruments, not to mention the structures of song form. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Together they represented something like an allied force for strong, perceptive memory and compositional vision within the avant-garde insurgency. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

For my final column, then, a toast: to 10 years of fizzes, slings, juleps, sours, cobblers and rickeys, to a time when the avant-garde seemed to shift almost nightly, to the best decade in generations. 2010-01-16T05:19:00Z

So with war overtaking Ukraine, the Parkers broke out their Rolodex and pulled together a lineup of over 50 avant-garde musicians for a major benefit show. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The Kitchen has a reputation for avant-garde art. Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

“But art dealing, at its best, is not just a business, and what made her a poor businesswoman made her a legendary dealer, the grande dame of the avant-garde, or a part of it, briefly.” Virginia Dwan, Behind-the-Scenes Force in the Art World, Dies at 90 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Among the more avant-garde looks shown on the runways of New York, London, Paris and Milan was one that seems ho-hum in real life: gray hair. Model shift: Could older be the new black? 2010-04-14T20:35:00Z

His first band, Juju, made avant-garde jazz meant to highlight the brutal inequalities created by apartheid in South Africa. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Cinéma Nova Also near the city center, this theater offers unique programming including avant-garde films from decades past and present, often grouped thematically. | An Artist’s View of Brussels 2014-04-23T13:01:11Z

But “Paris Through the Window” does the opposite, overplaying Chagall’s avant-garde credentials at the expense of his artful storytelling. Art Review: His First Brush With the City of Light 2011-06-23T22:45:58Z

It’s not all avant-garde all the time for the Brazilian-born Mr. Lindsay, though. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

I chose a bit of avant-garde, a bit of fashion, and for me it works. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

But he was known first and foremost as a passionate advocate of avant-garde and world music and of local musicians. Gary Bannister of Jazz Alley and Earshot Jazz dies at 61 2010-10-22T17:37:00Z

Organizers announced the roster on Monday, having doled out the competition lineup and the list of midnight and avant-garde screenings last week. Carpetbagger Blog: Spike Lee and Other Big Names Make Sundance's List 2011-12-05T21:00:31Z

He directs avant-garde short films and designs the graphics for the group’s fliers and merchandise. Standing on the Corner Is a Music Collective That Won’t Be Pinned Down 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Evans has brought the same inquisitive slant to his ensemble music, which most listeners would align with avant-garde jazz. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

The October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music was something like a State of the Union for free improvisation and avant-garde composition, and also a statement of potential. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

As this sonata made clear, his music combined Jewish musical idioms with avant-garde style in the manner of Bartok. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

But he offers an avant-garde twist: the players must use chance techniques to determine the order and combinations in which those themes are played. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z

They were umbrella shows of very wide-ranging, avant-garde work. Charles S. Moffett, Curator Who Focused on Impressionists, Dies at 70 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

But you would need multiple volumes to get at the breadth of her work, which began in the avant-garde of the 1960s and ’70s before moving to the world of ballet. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

In the realm of the avant-garde, sphinxes are better company than schoolteachers. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

As if purchased from a catalog of avant-garde clichés, this 96-minute performance piece from the Danish company Fix&Foxy sets out to unsettle the audience with a perplexing text and grotesque visuals. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

In 1961 she was a founder of the New York Poets Theater, which staged works by poets and avant-garde writers. Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

“The era of avant-gardes and exploration being definitively over,” this doyen of the avant-garde proclaims, perhaps sardonically, “what follows is the era of perpetual return, consolidation, citation.” John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Trained as a conductor of Renaissance choral music and soon steeped in the cerebral avant-garde, Mr. Heras-Casado, who is 34 and Spanish, arrived at Beethoven and Brahms only in recent years. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

The avant-garde, at least as purveyed here, is way too old hat to capture it. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

“They may seem a little avant-garde at first,” he told The Times after his 1960 show, for which he received a standing ovation, “but I really do believe in the look.” T Magazine: Norman's Conquest 2011-10-10T21:00:20Z

A fascinating novel about the allure and power of music, “Orfeo” centers on an avant-garde composer in his 70s who lives alone in a Pennsylvania college town. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

At 72, no one would fault Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde multimedia icon — an inventor, performance artist, musician, writer, filmmaker, painter and more — for being nostalgic. Laurie Anderson and Michael Stipe on Music, Art and New Chapters 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

You might wonder what an avant-garde museum is doing in a Gulf Coast beach town known for its casinos and sunshine. The 16 Best Small-Town Museums in the U.S. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

We all expected to see flamboyance, opulence, avant-garde. Kim Kardashian: Baby North's Gender-Neutral Clothing 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Not from pop or classical music or avant-garde traditions. Popcast: Jen Shyu and Musical Inspiration 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

In 1944, wanting to learn modernist techniques, she studied with the composer Ernst Krenek at Black Mountain College, then a mecca for members of the European avant-garde. Ursula Mamlok, Avant-Garde Composer, Dies at 93 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

I’m now writing a book about experimental, avant-garde, essayistic, documentary films, and I’m trying not to read too many books on this exact subject, lest all the wind whoosh out of my sails. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Techniques like these, once considered avant-garde, are popping up even in blockbuster action games from the likes of Sony and Microsoft. Video Games Where Hearts, Not Guns, Drive the Action 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The geometric stylization of one, a standing man with two straps across his chest and a long dagger with split blade, would have appealed to Western avant-garde sculptors of the 20th century. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z

Shepp’s Paris residence, combined with his “out there,” avant-garde reputation, made this Concert Hall appearance unexpected. Review | Archie Shepp’s performance at the Kennedy Center was absolutely beautiful 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Museum of Modern Art’s Queens branch is celebrating spring with this free six-hour avant-garde extravaganza. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic, has emerged in the last five years as possibly the most secluded destination for avant-garde food. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

At first glance, the book looks like a text for avant-garde, high-end cooking. Kenji López-Alt’s Obsessive Kitchen Experiments 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

“There was a certain avant-garde nature to it,” Majors said. A Cast and Crew’s Commitment to Making ‘Devotion’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Atlas, the co-creator of those avant-garde flourishes, got his start in the Midwest. Science Is on His Dance Card 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Yet underneath the limp “believe in your true self” marketing, and its naïve avant-garde aspirations, the series sprouts from hallucinatory corners of the Internet like YouTube’s creepy mass-produced videos for children. Our Masked Singers, Ourselves 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, Picasso and Braque are said to knock Matisse “from his perch atop the leadership of the avant-garde,” imbuing painting with all the nuance of Flywheel. How Picasso Became Picasso 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

And yet, if he decides to go through with purchasing City Paper — a once-thriving, now-struggling alternative weekly with a history of progressive politics and avant-garde arts coverage — it might just be Williams’s unlikeliest move yet. Why does conservative Armstrong Williams want to buy the liberal Washington City Paper? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

That’s the case with Engage, a new ensemble that features five younger improvisers, each aligned with a different corner of the avant-garde. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

He formed his own avant-garde group, Circle, and then founded Return to Forever. On new album, Chick Corea plays with a piano and his fans 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

When this avant-garde French urban planner died in February, at 96, the world lost one of its foremost advocates for design that places human experience over architects’ egos. 5 Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

It’s worth noting Mr. Serra’s titular dedication to Cage, the avant-garde musician whose most famous composition, for piano, “4’33”,” consists of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. Richard Serra’s Steel Behemoths Get Into Your Head 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

An ancient avant-garde model of the artist as creature of high ideals, messy habits and no expectations has been revised to accommodate competitiveness, personal polish and an agenda for professional success. Art Review: Bushwick Open Studios 2012-06-07T23:04:04Z

They lived like young avant-garde artists, but both retained their affection for classical Japanese culture as well. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde British stage director Deborah Warner will direct a new production of the opera, which will run through February. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Others became major participants in the 1970s avant-garde in New York City. Charles Bobo Shaw, Avant-Garde Jazz Drummer, Dies at 69 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

One former subscriber I talked to said she canceled her subscription after seven years partly because she found many of the productions too avant-garde. 2010-01-31T03:59:00Z

“Why would they do that?” the avant-garde musician Laurie Anderson, who was the program’s first guest in 1982, said in an interview when the news broke. A Musical Revolt Succeeds: WNYC, in a Reversal, Keeps ‘New Sounds’ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

And while the city’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts is still churning out avant-garde talents, it’s Antwerp’s latest crop of shops that is causing the current buzz. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

It was his reputation as an avant-garde composer and as a crusader for new music that prompted his unexpected appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic, succeeding Leonard Bernstein. Pierre Boulez, French Composer, Dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Rattigan was one of the dominant British literary figures of that era, though his reputation faded in subsequent decades, eclipsed by angry young men, kitchen-sink realists and a flamboyant avant-garde. Movie Review: ?The Deep Blue Sea,? Directed by Terence Davies 2012-03-22T21:33:50Z

So does St. Anselm in Williamsburg, which has a great selection of half-bottles, a wonderfully diverse list that ranges from avant-garde choices to unexpected values among trophy wines. Breaking Free of Steakhouse Wine List Tradition 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Though not musicians, the pair have worked with important avant-garde composers and other musical groups to create animated sequences for an array of live performances. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger turn animation into a wild sensory art installation 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Here, both local and international artists of all stripes, from avant-garde sculptors to abstract painters, display their oeuvre in a sun-washed space. 36 Hours in Macau 2012-11-04T04:00:23Z

The takeaway is that it is design-y but not so avant-garde as to seem isolating. 2010-02-11T04:48:00Z

I think this is not only nostalgia: It’s sort of avant-garde now! A Peek Inside Jean-Louis Remilleux’s Chateau and French History 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Out in the UK on 30 September, it follows the story of Patty and Walter Berglund, "the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation", as they fall apart. Bookshops pin hopes on Jonathan Franzen's return with Freedom 2010-07-06T10:03:00Z

Tastes change, after all, and work considered too avant-garde back in the day may suddenly be rediscovered and retrospectively deemed “ahead of its time.” Music Review: ‘Unsung Carolyn Leigh’ Reveals Charm of a Gatsby Musical 2014-04-08T20:57:35Z

His rule-breaking forays into what became known as installation, performance and conceptual art paved the way for the avant-garde movements that still perplex audiences today. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z

Best performance you probably didn’t see: Roomful of Teeth, an a cappella quartet who won for best chamber music performance, brought a mesmerizing mix of avant-garde harmonics and lush, hushed beauty. Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis big early winners 2014-01-27T01:01:00Z

Her plays were often considered too avant-garde or challenging for mainstream audiences. An Avant-Garde Theater Artist Gets Her Due 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Though it was once a faux pas for D.J.s to spin these tracks in some avant-garde spaces, now it’s not uncommon to hear the genre’s colossal synth leads at underground nightclubs. Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival. 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

During the Washington Square Music Festival on Tuesday, Ms. Tan, an avant-garde artist known for her imaginative performances on toy pianos, held up the two-page score to emphasize the work’s fleeting duration. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z

And they will be used, often several times during the show’s run, by a rotating roster of musicians that includes some of the biggest names from the avant-garde music scene. Christian Marclay at the Whitney: Two Critics Weigh In 2010-07-15T16:15:00Z

It was “Tristan,” in Ross’s description, that “set the course for an avant-garde art of dream logic, mental intoxication, formless form, limitless desire.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Picasso left Barcelona not just to escape, but to join an international avant-garde. Catalan artistic vitality might not thrive in splendid isolation 2012-11-20T20:10:01Z

No other English artist won such warm acceptance into Paris avant-garde circles at the time. Christopher Wood’s Brief Life, Richly Expressed 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It inspired a generation of avant-garde Chinese artists, who until 1979 had almost never seen Western art, to find their own way to challenge orthodoxy. Ripe for reassessment 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

But in the white avant-garde, these stories do not get told. Bill T. Jones and Eiko Otake: Opposites Guided by ‘Too-Much-Ness’ 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

The "Fashion world of Jean Paul Gaultier" at Rotterdam's Kunsthal gallery traces about 35 years of the designer's avant-garde creations including loans from Madonna - whose post-feminist conical bra is now the stuff of fashion legend. Nautical but Nice: Gaultier opens Rotterdam show 2013-02-08T17:02:21Z

To be sure, “A Quiet Place” is not a massive collection of avant-garde soundscapes. Making the Sound of Silence in ‘A Quiet Place’ 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Parts of her original composition “The Time Is Now,” from her 1997 album, “Impulsive!” was an elaborate instrumental duet for piano and drums in which Ms. Elias moved toward avant-garde territory. Music Review: Eliane Elias at Birdland 2013-05-29T21:42:52Z

In 1949, just as New York’s avant-garde art scene was exploding, he checked himself into Hillside Hospital in Queens. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Boisterous and urgent, the tenor saxophonist Burnett sounds like he could be living on the jazz avant-garde of the 1970s, or surviving a cyborg apocalypse three decades in the future. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

And from the 1960s it has been a preferred format on the avant-garde, where free-form improvising can really reward a smaller format. For Jazz Musicians in 2021, Two Was the Magic Number 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Although the kitchen was enamored with dehydrating things, and scattered little crescents of celery in the elderflower-granita dessert, there was none of the chilly self-regard you might expect from an avant-garde restaurant. Tables for Two: The Finest New York Restaurants in 2014 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Awareness of Western avant-garde trends was evident in works presented during the concert’s second half. Music Review: Echoes of Antiquity, With Avant-Garde Influences 2010-12-17T22:34:47Z

First she inspires her students with the liberating words of the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who advised everyone to “steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination,” adding that “originality is nonexistent.” 12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Their continued alliance was evident on a recent Tuesday night, when Ms. Bartsch, festooned like an avant-garde Christmas tree, arrived at the Soho Grand with Mr. Barton on her arm. Not Going Gentle Into That Good Night 2013-07-10T21:41:08Z

The album is sullen and raw, drawing from the outlaw country of his Nashville home, grunge and psychedelic rock, and avant-garde electronica. Seattle-area music-and-nightlife events Aug. 10-16: Jack White, Tomo Nakayama, and more 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

After all, Zorn is one of the world's leading avant-garde musicians and Anderson is preceded by a reputation for, er, eccentricity. Lou Reed booed in Canada for free-improv set 2010-07-05T09:08:00Z

Never before, though, has she paired an avant-garde taunt with such gonzo sweep. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Hopper seemed to develop his own expanded, synthetic interpretation, probably shaped by his appetite for consciousness-altering substances, avant-garde art and thorny philosophy. Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career 2010-05-29T18:04:00Z

In Steven Hall's view, "at the end of the 90s, he sort of took over BS Johnson's role as our one-man avant-garde." Jeff Noon: a life in writing 2013-04-20T07:29:01Z

The band plays two sets beginning at 7 p.m. at Sugarcube, the pop-up space at South Street Seaport, courtesy of the Brooklyn avant-garde label Northern Spy. Jazz Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

On large monitors mounted in a dim room, you can sit transfixed watching clips culled from international film history, spanning the commercial mainstream and the avant-garde. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

But "Threepenny" was created by avant-garde mavericks who embedded caustic critiques of capitalism, militarism and imperialism throughout the show. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z

Visiting the studios of artists such as Gauguin, Seurat and Émile Bernard, he took his place among the radical avant-garde, though he was too independent to pursue a connection with any formal group. Review | Vincent Van Gogh’s image is cemented in our cultural memory. His letters complicate the view. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

What transformed these fragments into a cohesive whole is a touch of avant-garde string scoring by Mr. Martin. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Picasso said in 1913, when outraged readers of the avant-garde journal Soirées de Paris sought an explanation of photographs of his constructions made from wood, cardboard, paper and string. Inside Art: Riffing on the Guitar as Only Picasso Could 2011-01-20T22:45:09Z

And how many other party promoters get mentioned in the same breath as avant-garde composer and theorist Pauline Oliveros? Venus X: 'I don't like pretending to be stupid' 2012-06-09T23:05:07Z

The show was always going to be tough — with heavy use of video and elaborate onstage rainfall it was expensive to run, and the avant-garde staging of a classic musical was not for everyone. Curtains Up! How Broadway Is Coming Back From Its Longest Shutdown. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s a low-tech solution to an avant-garde desire.” To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

But Ponta Delgada, the capital, is transforming into a center for the avant-garde with Walk & Talk, an annual international public art festival. An International Art Festival in the Azores 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Revolver” opens with George Harrison’s “Taxman” — a politico-financial gripe — and ends with “Tomorrow Never Knows,” an avant-garde cosmic drone with lyrics based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Over the following decades, against a backdrop of political turmoil, he hopscotched across the spectrum of available styles, from conservative-modernist to extravagant kitsch to preening avant-garde. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

It is one of Mr. Zhang’s earliest works and was displayed in 1989 at a groundbreaking exhibition of avant-garde art held in Beijing. ArtsBeat: Sale Sets Record for Living Chinese Artist 2011-04-04T18:20:34Z

A superhero shows up at a karaoke bar and launches into a four-page monologue about the co-optation of the avant-garde and the “immense, stealthy powers” of money. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

These musicians and one more, the violinist Erik Carlson, established the series to present music that promotes stillness and permits rumination — most of it contemporary and avant-garde in character. Music Review: ‘Peckinpah Trios’ Continues Music for Contemplation Series 2014-04-08T20:04:25Z

They frequented the Paris avant-garde scene of artists like Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp. Ex-French resister's call to action a best-seller 2011-01-06T18:50:09Z

But he didn’t like being described as a party starter, and he returned to more avant-garde compositions on his next studio album, “Bromst,” in 2009. Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z

Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ free dance is set to French duo Daft Punk’s electronic beats and is meant to illustrate an avant-garde intergalactic love story. Nathan Chen demonstrates new era of music in figure skating 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

The avant-garde is wildness: a wildness of content, and a wildness of form. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

On Friday, pop’s avant-garde princess drops her new album, “Crash.” New this week: ‘Deep Water,’ Charli XCX and ‘WeCrashed’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

“I have maybe a dozen grand ideas, and they run the gamut — anything from ‘What if we became like a Sundance-type of place?’ to ‘What if we did entirely avant-garde work?’ Second Act for New Chief of Festival 2011-06-22T23:00:45Z

Then again, if you're one of those disappointed souls who believed Kevin Shields didn't go far enough on the new My Bloody Valentine album, Midcity might be more the avant-garde apocalypse you were after. New band of the day: Clipping (No 1,448) 2013-02-08T11:20:36Z

Among the rising stars on jazz’s avant-garde, few are busier or more widely praised than Reid. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

For Lynch fans, the real find here is more than 90 minutes of riveting "Fire Walk With Me" outtakes, which are like a completely new, avant-garde Lynch feature film. Noel Murray's best DVDs of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Hampton Creek has hired three former chefs from Chicago’s avant-garde restaurant Moto who collaborate with its scientists on prototype after prototype. Why One Company Invested $30 Million to Grow a Vegan Egg 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

“For me,” he said, “the most interesting thought for my mates who are heavy into avant-garde work might be: ‘Let’s not turn away from the commercial culture, the pop culture. Sahr Ngaujah of ?Fela!? Learns About Broadway 2010-05-14T03:29:00Z

There it was again at the Chanel couture show, where makeup artists painted smudgy black circles around some of the models’ eyes, a look reportedly inspired by 1920s avant-garde art. Smudgy Eye Makeup Makes a Comeback 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

So, when you get there, the avant-garde—or whatever you want to call it—is in full swing. “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

But whether the shows are straightforward or avant-garde, they leave many civilians with questions: Perspective | A normal person’s guide to understanding a Fashion Week runway show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

So, this playful master of avant-garde food was experimenting to discover The Answer: taking the dish apart, then putting it back together. A Vegas Wedding for China and Mexico, Under the Chef Jos? Andr?s 2010-10-13T04:15:00Z

Studying in Italy, Mr. Haber found mentors among the avant-garde. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

On April 7 and 8, he is appearing in the courtyard of Performance Space New York, a storied East Village site of the avant-garde, for two nights of freestyle improvisation. Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

The mini-histories embedded throughout are often entertaining, like that of the avant-garde public television show “What’s Happening, Mr. Silver?,” a “psychedelic fever dream” that was “uninterrupted by commercials or common sense.” 1968 Revisited: A Boston Commune and a Van Morrison Classic 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Early in his career he worked with the avant-garde saxophonist Archie Shepp, appearing on his albums “The Cry of My People” and “Attica Blues.” John Blake Jr., Versatile Jazz Violinist, Dies at 67 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

For its male and female nudity and gender-bending sexual attitude, Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures,” first shown in 1963, was the most scandalous American avant-garde movie of its time. Tangled Bodies and Blown Minds, Complete With the Cockettes 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

And they like avant-garde music because it lets them feel as if they’re part of something everyone else isn’t hip to. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z

By the end of the year, Franklin Furnace, the avant-garde institution, will move to Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus as part of a new organization in residence agreement. The Glow Coming to Madison Square 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

And it’s with a marquee chef, Wylie Dufresne, who is adding pizza to a career that includes avant-garde molecular food and doughnuts. Wylie Dufresne Starts Stretch Pizza, Selling Pies Out of Breads Bakery 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Among the more adventurous films in the Forum section Yang Rui’s “Crossing the Mountain,” a portrait of a southwestern Chinese village, splits the difference between ethnography and avant-garde fiction. Berlin Takes Film Fest, and Fringe, in Stride 2010-02-17T22:45:00Z

As personal as it is, “Dead Pigeon” often feels like a home movie or even a low-budget avant-garde production. Cursed Films, Blessed on Blu-ray 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

“He always seems to be avant-garde to me, fresh and daring.” A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

It's a tale of two avant-garde creative personalities -- and former lovers, to boot -- with museum exhibitions on rival coasts. Matthew Barney at MOCA vs. Bjork at MoMA 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

A student of Pierre Boulez in 1957-58, Bennett's work evolved from the avant-garde to a more tonal style. Composer/pianist Richard Rodney Bennett dies 2012-12-28T12:24:08Z

“He does not seek out the avant-garde, and he is not a guest at SoHo painters’ parties,” his dealer, Mr. Davis, told People. Aaron Shikler, Portrait Artist Known for Images of America’s Elite, Dies at 93 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

If you were an avant-garde composer about a half-century ago, the answer to the question of where you’d spent your summer vacation was, more likely than not, unassuming Darmstadt, Germany. Review: A Birthday of the Darmstadt Avant-Garde 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

His interest turned to amassing art, especially work by the Russian avant-garde, that encompasses early-20th-century styles, from Fauvism and Expressionism to Futurism and Constructivism. Director at Uzbekistan Museum Is Dismissed and Accused of Crimes 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

But the fashion industry doesn't do avant-garde knockoffs anymore. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

Mr. Sondheim would later study independently with Milton Babbitt, the avant-garde composer. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

But Gustavo Dudamel stepped up to the avant-garde Italian plate on this occasion in inspired performances of two seemingly arcane works. L.A. Phil covers lusty Modern Italian with gusto 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“Rarefied avant-garde performance this isn't. Imagine ‘Avenue Q’ with a master's degree in American history,” McNulty wrote in his review of the musical’s 2008 world premiere at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. Remembering Michael Friedman: Interview from the earliest days of 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Say what you will about Cirque du Soleil’s weird clowns and “Lion King” makeup jobs — it is more avant-garde than this troupe. | A Goofy Display of Acrobatics, Juggling and Hula Hooping 2013-12-19T22:50:28Z

Bauhaus was an avant-garde art and design school that aimed to combine every form of art — architecture, painting, weaving, industrial design — into a Gesamtkunstwerk, a term translating roughly to “total work of art.” In Munich and Dessau, Art and Design Call. But History Is Even More Compelling. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

We create social atmospheres so people outside of the avant-garde can feel comfortable enough to engage with this work. ArtsBeat: Art Films Trace Gay History Around New York 2012-07-09T17:34:34Z

Onstage, this idiosyncratic musician perches behind an unsuspecting piano and emits a headbanging, oddly cathartic blend of classical, heavy metal and avant-garde. Pop & Rock Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:11:06Z

But the sounds Can made, mixing the primitive with the avant-garde and total freedom with rigid, funky grooves, continue to send out ripples of influence in underground rock, electronic music, film soundtracks and beyond. Can Was 40 Years Ahead of Its Time. A New Book Helps Us Catch Up. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

But if Ligeti was then far removed from the centers of avant-garde music in Germany and France, he was also shielded from the weighty dogmas of that period. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

The Triton Foundation is a collection of avant-garde art and the Kunsthal exhibition was showing its works by more than 150 famed artists, including Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Valuable art stolen from museum 2012-10-16T11:17:52Z

Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, he collapsed the boundaries between design, art and fashion; popular culture and the avant-garde; and authorship and copying. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

“It was actually pretty fantastic, progressive, cutting-edge avant-garde, kind of phantasmagorical,” recalled Douglas Wager about the latter play. It’s almost impossible to overstate Zelda Fichandler’s impact on American theater 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Asked to describe her ideal audience, she responded, “Someone with an open mind and an open heart, with curiosity and a willingness to drop the idea that they’re going to hear an ‘avant-garde’ musician.” Myra Melford Builds Anew With an All-Star, All-Woman Quintet 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde composer Christian Wolff played the first shift of “Vexations,” which is both simple and bafflingly difficult. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

So the experimental, the fringe and the avant-garde, which have never depended on lavish funding or popular attention, are not only surviving in their online digs but also, at least by contrast, thriving. The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

SelgasCano, known for avant-garde work that employs unusual materials, such as plastic, to daring effect, promises a pavilion that embraces both its Kensington Gardens setting and the broader urban fabric of London. 2015 Serpentine Pavilion Architects Announced 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

This avant-garde German director first proposed to cut and alter Wagner’s libretto and edit into the opera excerpts from other works. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z

In the many documentaries and print interviews that quote him, he almost never uses the term avant-garde. George Kuchar, Underground Filmmaker, Dies at 69 2011-09-08T04:51:32Z

Chagall envisioned more experimental and avant-garde designs, opting for heavy, richly colored fabric and intricate embroidering. Marc Chagall reveals his theatrical side in LACMA's 'Fantasies for the Stage' 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Whether he’s riding a New Orleans second-line beat, or tossing in classical-piano flourishes, or splintering a soul song into avant-garde jazz, or radically reconstructing a Professor Longhair standard, his virtuosity is a force of nature. Pop Picks for New Year’s Eve in New York 2013-12-26T23:11:43Z

But in its new spaces, the avant-garde theater’s lineup will be as diverse and politically fiery as always, with highlights including a Tennessee Williams adaptation and a visit from the Belarus Free Theater. La MaMa to Host Belarus Free Theater Next Season 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Lye made joyous, avant-garde films without a camera and kinetic sculptures that dance and rotate and sway and swish through the air. The best art exhibitions for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

Married to the artist Suzanne Duchamp, sister of Marcel, he knew most of the leading avant-garde players in Paris and New York and counted a good many as friends. Art in Review: Jean Crotti: ?Inhabiting Abstraction? 2011-05-06T06:15:07Z

But the Covid pandemic has done even more than dictators to push avant-garde theater off the map. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

The live recordings on “The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6” capture the tenor saxophonist just as he is starting to define the eruptive, gut-emptying style that would eventually revolutionize jazz’s avant-garde. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

People don't think of Jones as an avant-garde writer, but in his way he was. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z

Instead, the designer focused his fertile mind on creating wearable everyday pieces that reveal their avant-garde elements only upon closer inspection. Special Report: Fashion: Urban Trek to Sailor Style 2010-10-06T17:38:00Z

He took it home, anticipating something experimental and challenging from the avant-garde and multimedia artist who became John Lennon’s collaborator in life and art. What do you give Yoko Ono on her birthday? A tribute album 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pinckney was in Berlin working with Robert Wilson, the avant-garde director, on a production of “Orlando,” the Virginia Woolf novel, which Mr. Pinckney had adapted. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

And they are being used, often repeatedly, by a rotating roster of performers that includes some of the biggest names in avant-garde music. Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z

Henneman is known for meandering off the beaten path in this way, especially in his other avant-garde group Diminished Men. Off the beaten path at Café Racer — but how much longer? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Yoko Ono is the avant-garde matriarch shouting "Do it!" over percussive burbles, like a hipster chick a quarter of her age. The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review 2012-06-23T23:05:18Z

Thus with crushing obviousness they burlesqued feminist rage, avant-garde performance and Modernist process and self-reference. Art in Review: ?SOFT MACHINES? 2011-07-28T19:49:51Z

It’s nearly avant-garde, or like one of those meditation DVDs. Watching TV at the Gym 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zorn marked the occasion, which arrived in September, with a monthlong concert series at the Knitting Factory on Houston Street, where much of his avant-garde work had been developed. Music Review: John Zorn’s ‘Sacred Voices’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2013-06-24T21:20:40Z

In the 1960s and ’70s, Ono took part in an international avant-garde art movement titled Fluxus, which was particularly active in New York. Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Tree’ at the Hirshhorn is branching out. This year, your wishes can be virtual. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, use a few rhinestones or a sweep of glitter shadow to put together an avant-garde look. Skin Deep: Glittery Eye Makeup 2012-01-09T20:07:05Z

I moved to Europe and worked in the German-speaking world, still avant-garde, still searching. Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling) 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Or maybe an avant-garde Christmas in France circa 1880 would be a romantic moment, as the painters sat down to lunch in the freezing studio and warmed their hearts with absinthe. Who would be the worst artist to spend Christmas with? 2012-12-19T13:01:59Z

But the best lesson today’s artists can draw from this earlier avant-garde is that neither ideas nor images are enough on their own. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

With all of the repetitions and the confining nature of her narrator’s mind, Lozano plants one firm foot in the aggressively avant-garde camp of a writer like David Markson. In This Novel, the Stream of Consciousness Is More Like a Whirlpool 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

“To the extent that the Eames style of the 1940s and 1950s was ‘progressive’ and ‘avant-garde,’” Kirkham wrote, “Ray was certainly as responsible as Charles.” Ray Eames, Out of Her Husband’s Shadow 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

“We saw everything, from Broadway musicals to avant-garde versions of Eugene O’Neill’s ‘The Emperor Jones.’ Up Close: He Puts the Maximus in the Circus 2011-05-04T18:07:02Z

Famous for her futuristic façades and equally avant-garde fashion statements, she was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize. “Women Fashion Power,” designed by Zaha Hadid, opens today 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

For Garbus, 32, the journey to the place where she is now — an intersection of ecstatic East African music, folk earthiness, avant-garde experimentation, and bigger-than-life vocals — brimmed with tangents and detours. Tune-Yards overcomes 'crisis of faith' 2011-05-05T15:49:49Z

The Italian avant-garde composer’s works require unusual techniques on a wide range of instruments. Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

While Konstantin is an avant-garde idealist, this new Vanya is an old-fashioned crank yearning for the days of three television networks. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z

On a night when celebrities can let loose on their fashion choices, pop princesses and Hollywood actress took it up a notch in the avant-garde department at New York's Met Gala on Monday. Celebrities embrace avant-garde challenge at 2017 Met Gala 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Cook, which was also making music that combined bubble-gum pop impact with avant-garde sound design, scrambling distinctions between pleasure and irritation, commerciality and exploration. Sophie, Who Pushed the Boundaries of Pop Music, Dies at 34 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

The Calder is also distinguished by a non-specialized repertory that is a uniquely luxurious mix of classical masterpieces, avant-garde new music and pop. A weekend flock of L.A. string quartets 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

He has teamed with Gandini Juggling, a performance troupe that gives juggling — that traditional circus art — the avant-garde treatment. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Sundance being Sundance — rebellious — it announced in the same breath an upstart children’s program, a roster of avant-garde New Frontier films and Spotlight movies that have already played elsewhere. The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z

He nods to a broad saxophone tradition — the blossoming flow of Charlie Parker; the clean, darting intellect of Steve Coleman — but also draws from today’s electronic avant-garde. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

“This idea of the total artwork that activated all your senses was really important to the avant-garde,” said Stuart Comer, MoMA’s chief curator of media and performance, who organized the show. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Robin’s enterprise affirmed the vitality and variety of recent orchestral writing: the music on offer ranged from euphonious effusions in a post-minimalist vein to dissonant fulminations of the avant-garde. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

There he became a significant avant-garde figure, before turning from abstract to figurative painting in the mid-1960s, partly as a result of seeing an exhibition of Caravaggio at the Louvre. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z

And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it. Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

McLaughlin is among the most profound avant-garde painters to work in the United States in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was World War II. He’s also Southern California’s first momentous postwar artist. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde. Don’t give up on poetry! 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think this is avant-garde,” pronounced Michael as he surveyed Josh C.’s outfit of black shorts, high-necked white blouse and odd leatherlike fabric covering the model’s shoulder blades. On the Runway Blog: Project Runway Season 9: Avant-Garde or Hot Mess? 2011-09-02T16:54:54Z

But the A.A.C.M. thrived, becoming an internationally known symbol of the avant-garde and artistic self-reliance. Kelan Philip Cohran, a Musician Who Invigorated Chicago With Education and Activism, Dies at 90 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Johnson was an avant-garde polymath: novelist, poet, playwright, critic, filmmaker and football reporter. Summer Readings: Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe 2011-07-30T09:00:01Z

Or imagine The Voice if the criteria were expanded for one series to include abilities in the areas of avant-garde arrangement and minimalist composition. New band of the day: Jamie Isaac (No 1,526) 2013-06-05T14:53:03Z

Meanwhile, the Colette-Willys — bohemian, avant-garde and in and out of complex ménages — took Paris by storm. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

While still in his teens, he discovered the French New Wave and the underground avant-garde filmmakers of the San Francisco Bay Area. The force is strong with this one: ‘George Lucas,’ by Brian Jay Jones 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

After that, he said, “I was confused. Did I want to go into the avant-garde, or did I want to go into rock ’n’ roll?” John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

Their styles range from avant-garde to South American folk, with hints of Minimalism and plenty more. REDCAT opens new work festival with a theme of displacement 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

“In fact, it’s not at all too avant-garde.” ArtsBeat Blog: Historical Opera Is Canceled in Beijing 2011-09-26T19:49:51Z

In the last decade, an Episcopal church in Lower Manhattan has become something of an impresario for the musical avant-garde, collaborating on numerous new works including three that have won Pulitzer Prizes. The Week in Arts: A Mini-Festival of Music and a 9/11 Remembrance 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

The wildness of the avant-garde is never pure: this is obvious. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

The directors of Bang on a Can had long been taking matters into their own hands, creating a home for avant-garde music amid a decline in public funding. How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Velvets had always contained musical extremes: loud and soft, melodic and dissonant, avant-garde and primitive. The Velvet Underground in California 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

He became “the actor guy” in high school, studied theater at Northwestern University and won a Drama League of New York scholarship, which led to work with the avant-garde director Richard Foreman. A Newcomer to Opera Tries to Tame a Tempest 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

If one of these creatures were to get free of its frame, it might swim right into an avant-garde cartoon. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Traditional and established avant-garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing.” Ernie Gehr?s Films Traffic in Images and Light 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z

What was once sparely avant-garde is now luminously experimental. One Work of Dance, Theater and More to Experience This Weekend 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Nicolas Cage: ‘Personal Issues Don’t Have a Place in Film Commentary’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

In moving beyond their storied, single-day marathons, Bang on a Can was signaling new ambitions, and was going toe-to-toe with other major avant-garde bashes like the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee. Composers Give New Shape to Ornette Coleman’s Jazz 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Their store, stocked with imports and cutting-edge music, became the world epicenter for boundary-pushing artists who bridged disco, electronic music, rock, and the avant-garde. Wax Trax! label to celebrate legacy with all-star concert at Metro 2011-02-15T18:21:31Z

The Illustrious Blacks, whose show “Hyperbolic!” was part of “Under the Radar,” the Public Theatre’s annual emporium of the avant-garde. The Best New Yorker Photography of 2019 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

In late 1964, Tom White, an American living in Paris, encountered the avant-garde troupe the Living Theater, also from the United States. Review: The Soundtrack Is the Star of ‘Who’s Crazy?’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

“For the avant-garde art movement, Kazimir Malevich is a guru,” Mr. Toussaint said. Celebrating Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer in abstract art 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

A pleasantly wandering mind is a side effect of this itinerant, avant-garde performance piece, which is not exactly art and not exactly dance. Who are those dancers spinning through the Broad (and LACMA and the Getty)? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

So avant-garde, it’s ridiculous, but I get something out of every episode I see. My Not-Top-Ten Television List, 2018 Edition 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The biennale also extends to Salonika’s five major museums, including the State Museum of Contemporary Art, which houses the Costakis Collection, one of the world’s best assemblages of Russian avant-garde art. Next Stop: Salonika, Greece?s Cultural Capital 2011-11-04T16:01:38Z

And as an avant-garde artist — an aggressively purposeful one — he was shut out from the tradition-minded French cultural establishment for virtually the entirety of his career. Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

Their banter at Zimmerli paints its own picture: two artists who have a lot to catch up on, from their views on politics to religion and how the avant-garde veers into fascism. Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

It had previously run a sustainable ranch in New Mexico and mounted avant-garde theater productions. ‘Spaceship Earth’ Review: A Mini-Planet With Mini-Planet Problems 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

He fell in with the improvising avant-garde around 1963, recording first with the New York Art Quartet, a group that’s now iconic. For Milford Graves, Jazz Innovation Is Only Part of the Alchemy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Michael Counts, a director and visual artist known for his imaginative multimedia opera and theater productions, is joining the avant-garde theater company 3-Legged Dog as creative director of the 3LD Special Projects Group. ArtsBeat: Michael Counts to Join 3-Legged Dog Theater Company 2014-01-02T17:10:36Z

“The Art of Theater” and “With My Own Hands,” both by the French playwright, director and choreographer Pascal Rambert, survived the Under the Radar cancellation at this supercool avant-garde hothouse in Columbia County. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

A not-to-be-missed Festschrift commemorating this witty avant-garde publisher, photographer and man of letters. Review | Forget trendy bestsellers: This best books list takes you off the beaten track 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

But he was probably best known as a director for his avant-garde and often unsettling adaptations of Shakespeare, Ibsen and other generally revered writers. Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z

“But in a weird way,” he added, “maybe what he was doing was actually avant-garde.” A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

“Imagine. New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969,” an exhibition that examines the avant-garde movements that emerged from Milan in that time, is also on view. Iggy Pop in England and Rauschenberg in China: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

He and Eugenides were on one side, defending their craft, while the art historians on the other side of the argument made the case for the avant-garde. A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z

Questions of cultural appropriation dogged “The Mahabharata” when it was the talk of the avant-garde world in the late 1980s. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

The German avant-garde later embraced self-consciously ugly works that sought to expose humanity’s barbarism. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z

Throughout her career, Ms. Mayer rejected formalism for the avant-garde. Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Brüggen, who in 1972 founded an avant-garde recorder trio called Sour Cream, began his career as a recorder soloist and chamber musician. Frans Brüggen, Pioneer in Early Music, Dies at 79 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most successful attempt was Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves, a book which self-consciously integrated the "hauntology" of French theory into an avant-garde puzzle box. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z

The bars of the city embody the same balance, shunning pretension while mixing up intriguing cocktails, from classic to avant-garde. A guide to Sydney’s flourishing small-bar scene 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Cage, who died two years before “Stomp” debuted in New York, was the influential avant-garde composer who thrived on defying convention, and urged other artists to do the same. ‘Stomp’ Turns 25. Here Are 10 Things You Didn’t Know About It. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

It also featured two notable elders of the avant-garde: the bassist Henry Grimes and the composer, saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill. Review: Celebrating Cecil Taylor, a Pianist of Endless Influence 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Irrespective of who made it, Come Swim is the sort of daring avant-garde fare Cannes usually laps up. Kristen Stewart on her directing debut: 'The best female film-makers are compulsive freaks' 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Paradise is gained and lost in the alternately beautiful and obscure “Paradisiacal Rites,” an often-overwhelming, exhausting performance work by the avant-garde company Saint Genet. Saint Genet show ‘Rites’ goes to extremes | Performance review 2013-05-18T21:57:04Z

Caillebotte used a significant portion of his inherited wealth to support the struggling Impressionist avant-garde — especially Monet — and he bought a lot of their paintings. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The distinctive geometric patterns of the Viennese avant-garde dominate, but other styles are also in play, and the handsome color reproductions sometimes seem suitable for framing. Books and Museum Treats for Art Lovers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The epicenter of postwar Parisian nightlife, the caves symbolized youth, sex, freedom and the avant-garde. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Somewhat paradoxically, Wilson’s work has consistently been described as avant-garde as other aesthetic trends have come and gone. At 80, Robert Wilson Holds On to a Singular Vision for the Stage 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Illuminations,” also prompted by Rimbaud, fused what might have been the fractious gestures of a Pierre Boulez piano sonata with the cyclonic whorls of an avant-garde jazz pianist like Cecil Taylor. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z

The Zizkas turned the Philadelphia theater, which started in 1973 as a feminist and avant-garde project, into a local institution, with a modern 296-seat auditorium on the city’s bustling Avenue of the Arts. A Philadelphia Theater Heading, and Sweating, in a New Direction 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

It was a tribute to Aucoin’s facility that his own pastiches often fit seamlessly within the context of his classical ancestors, while other passages sparingly employed avant-garde techniques to suggest horror. At Ace Hotel, new live score makes 1922 'Nosferatu' a not-so-silent movie 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

A subsequent crackdown got more artists blacklisted and drove whole genres of art underground - including folk singers, jazz and rock bands, a generation of avant-garde composers and filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky. Banned 50 years ago, exhibition reopens in Moscow 2012-12-06T12:16:54Z

The technique came from the prevailing German avant-garde approach at the time. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

He also propels the Chicago-based Indigo Trio and a half-dozen other ensembles, as well as the “Materials” projects of Bill Laswell, a producer of avant-garde rock. Chicago News Cooperative: As Winter Dawns, the Sound of Drums Fills the Air 2010-12-19T02:22:19Z

For instance, Mary Sully, an avant-garde Dakota artist from the 20th century, made jewel-like, kaleidoscopic triptychs on paper that fuse Native American designs with a Western modernist aesthetic. The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

But on the side, Ms. Honda has veered into more avant-garde terrain, releasing solo albums on the respected experimental label Tzadik and collaborating with visionaries like Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono and others. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

About bloody time too. said:Zappa's oeuvre is full of such sophisticated, avant-garde compositions. Stage reader review roundup: what have you seen this week? 2013-03-15T16:29:37Z

Rollins, at least, was not yet interested in adopting the wildness of the avant-garde. A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Tapies was one of Spain's main exponents of abstract and avant-garde art in the second half of the 20th century. Spanish painter and sculptor Tapies dead at 88 2012-02-07T10:46:03Z

According to Larson, who is herself a devout Buddhist, Cage was frustrated that audiences weren't responding to his difficult, avant-garde music. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z

If “On Behalf of Nature” placidly lacks the avant-garde force of Ms. Monk’s early work, the role is one she seems born to play. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

"I wanted to keep in mind it's very accessible to the public as a romantic fairy tale, not avant-garde," said Castro. Emmy-nominated designers celebrate TV costumes 2012-07-31T22:46:04Z

All good news for the A.R.T., it would seem, but some proponents of serious theatrical aesthetics and the avant-garde say its newfound popularity poses questions for theaters and universities broadly. 2010-02-07T18:11:00Z

When she moved back to Manhattan in 1968 and set up business in SoHo, she pulled traffic in the other direction, drawing avant-garde European art from across the Atlantic. Art Review: ‘Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New’ at MoMA 2013-12-19T22:57:15Z

A self-taught musician, he started out as a street performer and fire breather with an avant-garde theater troupe. Danny Elfman Brings Music From Tim Burton’s Films to Lincoln Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Settling in New York in 1966, he quickly found his way to the center of the avant-garde. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

It’s not fair to lump him in with the idea of the thorny European avant-garde. A modernist master’s Mozartean face: Rihm writes for Barto’s pianos 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

As images of avant-garde art and news events from the ’60s flicker on the movie screen, the ghoulish audience rises and sings the Adams song in unison. Art Review: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Hits at Brooklyn Museum 2013-07-11T21:38:26Z

“Slave Play,” which he wrote after being challenged at Yale to write something less avant-garde, is his most “boring” play. Meet the playwright behind a ‘deeply raw space’ on Broadway 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Also in 2011, aiming to bring the avant-garde to mass culture, she auditioned for the TV show “America’s Got Talent,” twisting in and out of large petticoats to become an eerie four-faced doll. Up Close: The Mannequin Also Speaks: Up Close With Narcissister 2013-01-16T15:54:06Z

But the newer work I mean, arising from noncommercial theaters and the former avant-garde, does the opposite, working inward from the state to the soul. When Political Theater Ditches the Disguises of Fiction 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

He started out in the 1960s on New York’s avant-garde jazz scene, but nowadays he tends toward music of clearer, gentler beauty. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The name of the writer Donald Barthelme rarely appears without “experimental,” “avant-garde,” or “post-modern” attached. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

The lyrical First Violin Concerto dates from 1916-17, though at its Paris premiere in 1923 it was considered insufficiently avant-garde, while Soviet critics also subsequently deemed it insufficiently revolutionary. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z

Then check out what the avant-garde European jazz labels have released in the past 10-15 years. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

They team up here with Mr. Cyrille, a drummer with acres of experience in the avant-garde. Jazz Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:16:07Z

Other enterprises include a Bleu de Paname pop-up shop and a Concept Store Gallery offering avant-garde design. Are Les Docks the Next Cool Thing? 2012-06-04T11:30:24Z

He hikes uptown to Symphony Space for his “Night Out With” residency, in which he coaxes other avant-garde figures to perform and discuss their art. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But what's much harder is to write an avant-garde novel about real life, a novel whose experimental qualities unshroud something recognisable and genuine about our shared experience that a traditional novel would have missed. My hero: Charlie Kaufman by Ned Beauman 2012-08-17T21:55:11Z

July 23rd: The Ensemble Musikfabrik production of Harry Partch’s “Delusion of the Fury” played to sell-out crowds at the Lincoln Center Festival, demonstrating that unstintingly avant-garde works can have popular impact. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

The series title is a hat tip to Erik Satie’s “Furniture Music,” a deliberate form of background music and thus an avant-garde precursor to Muzak. Art in Review: Mika Tajima: ‘Negative Entropy’ 2014-03-27T20:28:25Z

But the most triumphant gently incorporate avant-garde techniques. | Choice Tables: In Bilbao, It?s Not Just the Museum 2010-10-07T02:19:00Z

They’re rock ’n’ rollers at heart, but with a serious avant-garde streak. Boris goes heavy 2013-05-16T19:39:41Z

When she first began creating dances in 1965, she said, she was curious about how movement fit inside of the avant-garde dance world. Twyla Tharp Wants You to Move 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

A scenic waterfront home is rendered ominous by the avant-garde string music that an ambiguously hostile neighbor blasts at high volume. ‘Friends and Strangers’ Review: G’day, Mates 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The early-20th-century Russian avant-garde was your favorite era for the visual arts. The Healing Arts of Brian Eno 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

But an unsentimental toughness lies just beneath Ms. Burke’s disarmingly scattered sunniness, itself a perfect foil for avant-garde self-seriousness. Review: ‘Imagining the Imaginary Invalid,’ About Absence and Art Making 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The most avant-garde moment was an atonal, fragmented version of “The Twist.” Review: Carol Lipnik, a Bewitching Blend of Comedy and Mysticism 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Artists include Rembrandt, Degas and Cézanne, who was praised by avant-garde artists of the day for leaving works incomplete. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

This week the face of Bart Simpson will appear on avant-garde designer Jeremy Scott's autumn/winter 2012 collection at New York fashion week. Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here 2012-02-11T13:17:39Z

Mr. Maxwell and his New York City Players have joined forces with another towering bastion of the avant-garde, the Wooster Group, to present “Early Plays” by Eugene O’Neill at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z

To many, the black paintings signaled a step back — a retreat from avant-garde abstraction to retrograde figuration. 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

“Like many of the avant-garde artists of her time, Jeanne turned to exotic sources, like African art and ethnic objects for inspiration,” Ms. Chassard said. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: An Unsigned Iconoclast of 20th-Century Design 2010-12-10T17:50:00Z

But his work was also steeped in various figurative and avant-garde traditions of postwar European art. Franz West, Influential Sculptor, Dies at 65 2012-07-27T02:56:48Z

At the same time, his life and career deepen our understanding of the trans-Atlantic dialogues that shaped avant-garde architecture and design in the United States and, specifically, Southern California, in the 1920s and ’30s. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

It was a miscellany of grim tidings and stubborn determination, of sounds both earthy and avant-garde, of bitter realities and electronic hallucinations. The Roots Touch on Poverty, Death and God at the Public 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Vietnam also opened up avant-garde art to previously neglected voices, including women, African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Ueno’s score — for the two performers and electronics — is an analogue to code switching, with faux classical and traditional Korean music, along with ’70s pop and contemporary avant-garde idioms. Two Musicians of Color Are Creating Their Own Space 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

You could picture Johnny Cash performing some of the tunes, a church choir or an avant-garde ensemble tackling others. Review: New York Musical Festival Is a Smorgasbord 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Talking about the Delia Darlings, she reveals that they intend to continue their inspiration's preoccupation with the avant-garde by collaborating with artists who specialise in diverse genres. Manchester honours the woman behind the spooky music of Doctor Who 2013-01-10T12:00:00Z

Suffice it to say that in this offering from the Peak Performances program, Krapp is portrayed by that exacting master of the avant-garde masque, Robert Wilson. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

A creature of the European postwar avant-garde, Marker would seem an unlikely influence on modern Hollywood. The Inspiration Issue: What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ 2012-09-26T15:52:19Z

On this veteran avant-garde pianist’s second album with Snowy Egret, the quintet moves with tenuous grace. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

My idea of the avant-garde is so often Parisian. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

From the 1960s onward, parts of Latin America and Eastern Europe were in comparable states of political turmoil, under repressive governments, with avant-garde art under fire. Review: ‘Transmissions’ at MoMA Explores an Era When Art Upended Tradition 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

His avant-garde dishes — bacon dangling from wires, venison served on fireplace kindling — were satirized in a Diet Coke commercial starring "Top Chef" judge Tom Colicchio. Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z

Meanwhile our titular antiheroine is presented as a rebel, a great talent, avant-garde, a little mad and even in her kinder moments, concerned with elevating her own position in the world. What "Loki," "Lucifer" and "Cruella" tell us about our love affair with rewriting ugly stories 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The Currents section continues the festival’s tradition of highlighting new work from experimental and avant-garde filmmakers. The New York Film Festival Is Back, and Our Critics Have Favorites 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

For avant-garde architecture, I headed to NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which looms like a western Stonehenge over the town. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

This month, a solo show of their sculptural wood-and-acrylic tube lights is up at Carwan, an avant-garde design gallery that relocated last year from Beirut to a late-19th-century commercial warehouse next door to Rodeo. In an Ancient Greek Port, a New Cultural Hub 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Parker, an eminent avant-garde bassist, has convened bands for over two decades under the title In Order to Survive. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.” Defying Russian Missiles and Soviet Censors, Ukrainian Art Goes on Show 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Either/Or’s programming is often found at the intersection of the European avant-garde and the American experimental traditions, the latter of which was in many ways centered at the Kitchen,” he said. Weekend Miser: Artists in Dialogue at the Kitchen 2012-03-29T22:23:12Z

While the turn to nonvisual modes in avant-garde art was being made in the ’60s and early ’70s, few people noted an opposite turn in science, toward visual representation of otherwise purely abstract ideas. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

Pop is not usually an avant-garde art form, and as such it doesn't cope well with the abstract. You can't pick the lyrics out of pop 2010-12-09T12:07:00Z

Here they just seem like avant-garde window dressing. Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet,’ Cocooned in an Aura on a London Stage 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

At 79, Mr. Young still operates as defiantly within his own sphere as he has since moving to New York from the West Coast in 1960, taking the avant-garde by storm. A ‘House’ Finds a New Home 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

When Karen Brooks Hopkins first arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music more than three decades ago, it was considered a pioneering outpost for avant-garde theater, music and dance. President of BAM Will Leave Next Year 2014-02-04T23:30:11Z

Besides museums, his commissions included vigorously angled, improbably avant-garde police stations in Southern California and rugged, ecologically friendly houses in the mountains. Randall Stout, Architect of Innovative Environmental Designs, Dies at 56 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Hold onto your avant-garde hats: David Lynch is back on the Web. ArtsBeat: David Lynch Launches Web Store 2011-03-08T17:45:00Z

And while the technology is current, the premise isn’t — the avant-garde composer Cage was reassembling bits of operas into sound collages decades ago. ‘A Piece of Work’: ‘Hamlet’ for the computer age 2013-02-23T23:13:22Z

Even 20-something avant-garde brands are facing up to a similar situation, as in the rocky replacement of the designer Martin Margiela. 2010-01-25T16:44:00Z

Back in L.A. for the summer, still trying avant-garde experimental treatments, he began to fail. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

FRI-SUN Boutique jewelry event for avant-garde jewelry by 20 designers and art jewelry galleries, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar 2012-02-08T22:39:05Z

Tharp's early avant-garde work seems a world away from her mainstream hits, but there is a simple link. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z

This concert, a celebration of the station’s own 75th anniversary, will feature the avant-garde bassist Henry Grimes and a postbop quartet led by George Coleman, the eminent tenor saxophonist. Jazz Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The group is privileged to enjoy a private rehearsal of the Stravinsky-Balanchine's gestating avant-garde ballet "Orpheus," which would soon premiere and be hailed as a masterpiece. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z

HE WAS a friend of Kazimir Malevich and Marc Chagall, champions of Russia’s avant-garde, and he founded Poland’s foremost museum of modern art, in Lodz. Man of the moment 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

It’s meant as both criticism and encouragement, and a reminder of the aesthetic rules at this WestGerman outpost of the early ’60s avant-garde. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

They formed a theatre company and performed avant-garde shows. Brave new worlds: what can we learn from film's utopian visions? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Lange also recorded words on placards and billboards within the photograph itself, following a trail blazed by Walker Evans, a habitué of avant-garde literary circles in New York who loved written language. Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s a version of New York that many folks come to the city with hopes of experiencing. So much of the history of the interdisciplinary avant-garde has that kind of loft space as its birthplace.” The Kitchen Will Spend Some Creative Time in a Westbeth Loft 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

With all its flaws, “to that extent the European Union is the world’s avant-garde, the world’s future,” while the United States, especially under President Trump, “is retro, even if they don’t know it,” he said. Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

But because he still thought of himself as "a hard-nosed, avant-garde person," this "ultimately became something of a crisis." Salonen, CSO scale majestic heights of Bruckner symphony 2011-03-04T18:35:00Z

He had begun developing a playlist befitting the young and serious: He loved Alfred Hitchcock and the French New Wave, and was dabbling in the American avant-garde. ‘La La Land’ Makes Musicals Matter Again 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Divided into 10 separate sections, highlighting areas like experimental and avant-garde works, shorts geared towards younger generations, films focused around culinary themes and several others, there's a place for all film admirers at Berlinale. Travel Picks: World's top 10 film festivals 2012-01-13T11:41:01Z

It’s a line of inquiry openly borrowed from the avant-garde drummer and homeopath Milford Graves, but Mr. Coleman stamps it clearly with his own style. Music Review: Steve Coleman and Five Elements at the Stone 2013-04-24T22:09:59Z

The utopia it evokes is a state of socially aware well-being, occasioned by the man, the music and the physical movement, the last dreamed up by avant-garde choreographer Annie-B Parson. Review | David Byrne brings his entertaining brain to Broadway in ‘American Utopia,’ and it’s totally dope 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

The album is a fitting addition to the Impulse! catalogue, which was known for its avant-garde offerings. Listening Booth: Impulse! Records 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

“This is something really avant-garde. To have a private foundation create a permanent institution that is open to the public is a major gesture, one that will have deep significance now and for future generations.” The Prada Foundation’s New Arts Complex in Milan 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Headlines announced that Prince Albert of Monaco had arrived, as had the “world’s most avant-garde super yacht.” In Spain, finding peace — and paella — on Mallorca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Moorman’s weekly pay when she worked with Yoko Ono on her 1961 performance at Carnegie Recital Hall, a turning point for the cellist in discovering the avant-garde. A musical tribute to an unconventional — and unclothed — cellist 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

His more avant-garde tastes felt at odds with fronting a popular reality TV show. How Noel Fielding Went From a Hedonist to a Host of ‘The Great British Baking Show’ 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Barneys built a reputation on its embrace of avant-garde fashion, its devotion to 50 shades of black, its championing of new designers and its seeming willingness to put creativity above everything else. Perspective | The end of Barneys, the store that made us lust for fashion 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

"R100" is part slapstick, part pulp and part avant-garde; ultimately, it's a meta-comment on how some people have eclectic tastes in "entertainment." Amir Bar-Lev explores tribalism in Penn State-centric 'Happy Valley' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

Save for a sweetness afforded "Father, Son," most arrangements were protracted, with the occasional avant-garde motifs offset by a lack of energy. Peter Gabriel's experiment with strings attached 2011-06-21T14:26:00Z

Moreover, a small avant-garde of producers has recently started highlighting different varieties of sugar cane as well as releasing vintage cachaças, Mr. Jannuzzi said. On the Cocktail Trail in Brazil, a Favorite Spirit Gets Frisky 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

To make things even more unsettling, it's sung so jauntily you wonder if you're listening to avant-garde barbershop. Readers recommend songs inspired by poetry: The results 2010-09-16T21:59:00Z

The only limitation for such an artist, really, is the extent to which it can all be explained away as an avant-garde game if things get too weird. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Waters glided onto the New York avant-garde in 1965, at the age of 19, startling those around her with a sylphlike voice and a haunted air. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

It is a reminder to visitors that no matter how avant-garde Paris gets, they will always be walking in the shadow of its fraught and glorious past. My Paris: Seduced by the Past 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Vision Festival, a hand-sewn New York institution now in its 16th year, presents avant-garde jazz as a form of religion, complete with saints and sacraments, a clergy and a congregation. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z

The first occurred around 1914 with the discovery of "the dazzle effect of colour juxtaposition", which was pioneered by the avant-garde artists of the op-art movement. Signposts to the modern age 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z

That imbalance is part of the bargain of contemporary theater, of course: never more so than in works of the European avant-garde. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

But at the same time they were all also envisioning a future for music where boundaries didn’t exist, where you could have a cross-fertilization between the avant-garde, classical music and pop. A ?60s Mash-Up That Didn?t Happen 2011-03-06T01:44:59Z

It might be time to say that the great avant-garde artist of the 20th century was not really an artist at all, but a producer. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z

Noted for an eclectic approach that was at once colorful, powerful and also cool and melodic, Hutcherson came of age musically as jazz was moving into a cerebral, more avant-garde era that matched his playing. Brilliant, inventive jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson dies 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Díaz-Jerez thinks the pieces are often better than those produced by some avant-garde composers, which revel in their own internal logic but are virtually impossible to play. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z

For a generation of young artists flanking World War II, tiny Black Mountain College in rural North Carolina would become the prime incubator of America's avant-garde culture. The top 10 art museum exhibitions of 2016, plus the worst trend of the year 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian celebrities gather outside Moscow court to demand director's release 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

It was through him that I had discovered the avant-garde delights of the Velvet Underground and Talking Heads. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

There were echoes of blues drone, avant-garde classical music, free jazz, early rock ‘n’ roll, field recordings and the rantings of street-corner oracles. Captain Beefheart, dead at 69: Music as an action painting 2010-12-19T12:42:58Z

The next several films were a blur of European avant-garde pastiche; family memories; eccentric portraits of activists, scientists, a man delivering newspapers. A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

A trombonist with an amiable, misty tone and an inquisitive instinct, Priester has been flouting the divide between jazz’s mainstream and the avant-garde since before that line was drawn. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

At the art gallery Pioneer Works earlier this month, Genesse began carefully constructing a sanctuary for this fallen angel of the avant-garde, who died of leukemia two years ago. Honoring Genesis P-Orridge’s Legacy of Love, Art and Gender Revolt 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Haynes slightly avant-garde approach is wholly appropriate and why this documentary is so exceptional. Apple TV+'s new Velvet Underground film is an irresistible portrait of extraordinary provocateurs 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Keely Garfield embraces sincerity in “Wow” and three dancers interpret a work by the avant-garde artist Joseph Cornell in Laurie Berg’s “The Mineralogy of Objects.” Dance Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The Stone, the beloved avant-garde performance space on the Lower East Side, is transitioning into new digs at the New School, where it will move permanently at the end of February. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Groth, in an interview later, compared Mr. Moore to the avant-garde director David Lynch. ‘Escape From Tomorrow,’ at Sundance, Scrutinizes Disney 2013-01-20T19:31:24Z

Ms. Wagner’s avant-garde production was introduced in 2007, and this was already its second performance at the festival this summer. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

An ad for a medical truss described the artistic "rupture" performed by the avant-garde. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

His avant-garde approach stretched, twisted and redefined the concept of poetry. A new collection of John Ashbery’s work and other best poetry for September 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

He moved to Hamburg in 1985 to lead the Thalia Theater, which he is widely credited with putting in the international spotlight by inviting avant-garde artists like the American director Robert Wilson. Jürgen Flimm, Director of Festivals and Opera Houses, Dies at 81 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

Hanging everywhere are paintings and woodcuts done by her beloved aunt Rachel Reckitt, a fascinating figure who, on the one hand, was an avant-garde artist and, on the other, raised horses and rode to hounds. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Both Mr. Fullerton and Ms. Abbott, the exhibition panel says, “believed that the modern world demanded an avant-garde approach to art.” | Long Island: An Exhibition of Century-Old Long Island Photographs at the Heckscher Museum 2013-05-03T23:39:15Z

“Cristóbal Balenciaga was very unique for his time in that he was so modern looking and avant-garde in his vision,” said Cassie Davies-Strodder, curator of the exhibition, “Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion.” Balenciaga, Fashion’s Original Provocateur 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

In addition to “Interns,” Mr. Biron is starring in a sold-out production of Gogol’s “Dead Souls” at the Gogol Center, a well-regarded avant-garde theater. After ‘Interns’ Star Came Out in Russia, a Mix of Fury and Shrugs 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

A potent trombonist as well as an administrator, Mr. Staley is modest in describing the roots of one of New York’s most important avant-garde music spaces. A Critic’s Favorite Space for Music in New York Turns 40 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Most of the works are Pesce’s floppy, pliable avant-garde vases, largely created in the last 25 years. Gaetano Pesce's playful forms to fill MOCA Pacific Design Center 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

But then: there's no reason to dismiss something just because it's impure, and this idea of the avant-garde, in its essence, is a noble ideal. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

Seven years ago Covent Garden dared to stage a highly stylised Aida by the avant-garde American director Robert Wilson, which was under-rehearsed and, given its disappearance without a revival, scarcely allowed a chance to succeed. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

Q. As a major figure of the New York avant-garde of the ’60s and ’70s, do you think there’s much avant-garde work today? Ophelia Re-envisioned in ‘Imagining O’ 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

The comedian Stewart Lee argued last week on behalf of those who fear that the once avant-garde fringe now resembles an affluent "Chipping Norton of the arts" which pushes away fresh talent. Edinburgh performers bid to reclaim the 'true spirit' of the fringe 2012-08-04T13:23:54Z

Last year, another symbolic event took place with Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood taking to the stage and the recording studio for a collaborative project with Polish classical avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Polish music now: from punk-folk to hip-hop 2012-06-07T11:02:00Z

It will have to find ways to keep its cutting-edge reputation now that it is part of the establishment, and to continue refreshing its avant-garde roster to keep it from seeming old guard. A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

And this critique isn’t coming from some avant-garde outsider or media-studies professor, by the way. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

“It’s terribly important to me that there are organizations like Canyon Cinema and Film-Makers’ Cooperative,” said Jyette Jensen, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art and an expert on American avant-garde film. Canyon Cinema Filmmakers? Cooperative Sees Grim Future 2012-02-17T13:00:00Z

Instead they were part of a group of avant-garde musicians centred around Birmingham's Custard Factory arts complex who made edgy and occasionally difficult music by fusing old-fashioned analogue textures with modern digital recording techniques. Trish Keenan obituary 2011-01-17T15:27:31Z

Though Ms. Fure is American, her work has been heard mainly in Europe, particularly at the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, once the home of the postwar avant-garde. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

This second installment in the company’s tripartite “The Winter of Our Discontent: Shakespeare in the Digital Age” project doesn’t entirely solve the problems of avant-garde iconoclast Lee’s collage-like text, but it’s nonetheless intriguing. Young Jean Lee's risky, intriguing riff on 'Lear' at City Garage 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Some were attuned to Abstractionist trends with a Cubist tendency and created furniture that looks back to avant-garde Art Deco in the 1930s. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z

What emerges throughout the series is a daring, thought-provoking and often avant-garde alternative time capsule of the 1970s and 1980s through characters and stories rarely seen on screen. What came before ‘Daughters of the Dust’: A new series focuses on little-known works from black female filmmakers 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

On Brooklyn Rider’s album, the playing of Beethoven’s tender slow movement seemed to gain additional poignancy when coming after detours into the sounds of today’s avant-garde from composers like Du Yun and Matana Roberts. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Issue is not the only avant-garde space in downtown Brooklyn. ArtsBeat: Avant-Garde Arts Space Inaugurates New Home, Finally 2012-01-13T21:10:31Z

Fifty-five-year-old Jack has enjoyed a successful career as an avant-garde artist until one of his installations explodes, threatening him and his gallery owner with lawsuits. ‘Among the Ten Thousand Things’: A family torn apart by infidelity 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, a hero of jazz’s avant-garde, has a heavyset, pulse-slowing trumpet sound. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

In the past few years he has accrued a mystique in various pockets of the city’s music world — jazz, indie rock, the media-mixing avant-garde — but remains little-known outside Washington. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

In The Age of Extremes, Hobsbawm argued that everyone who was young and savvy in 1930s Britain was also a fan of avant-garde films such as Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z

The discovery is also interesting because it demonstrated how closely Russian avant-garde representatives were following the developments in France.” Examination Reveals a Mysterious Message on Malevich's 'Black Square' Painting 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The shoes are wild and weird, yet not so avant-garde as to be unwearable. Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Shoes 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

In fact, he sees pushing the avant-garde envelope as part of his job, and filling a vital niche in the arts scene. On the Boards offers 'radical' lineup this year 2011-10-01T19:45:32Z

So its concerts vary wildly from month to month; Mr. Fulmer’s series concentrates primarily, though not exclusively, on musicians who specialize in avant-garde classical music. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z

Sally Gross, a leading avant-garde dancer and choreographer whose minimalist works helped propel the postmodern dance movement, died on Monday in Sag Harbor, N.Y. Sally Gross, Choreographer of Minimalist Dances, Dies at 81 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

With its swirling organ, boogaloo fugues and aggressively atonal guitar bursts, this extended improvisation suggests a musical showdown between the jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock and the avant-garde German group Can. Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Beyond staging some of London’s most avant-garde theater productions, there is a large bar that hosts club nights for as many as 250 people. It’s a Theater, With Craft Beer and D.J.s Until 6 a.m. 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

The state of the nation novel is necessarily traditional; avant-garde difficulty would jar with its democratic aim of giving voice to a broad mix of characters. The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope? 2012-02-12T00:06:17Z

Noncompliant works — including much of the avant-garde — ended up in museum basements. Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Harun Farocki, an avant-garde German filmmaker and video artist whose work examined the ways images are used to inform, instruct, persuade and propagandize, died on Wednesday near Berlin. Harun Farocki, Filmmaker of Modern Life, Dies at 70 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Directed by Thomas Ostermeier, and featuring Louis himself, it is too eager to show off its avant-garde chic to maintain the prosecutorial force of the narrowly argumentative book. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Even now, with listeners seasoned by half a century of avant-garde developments, Mr. King said he appreciated the opportunities that Cunningham provided to composers and performers. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z

The world turned, and Lynda is still here and still avant-garde.” Art: A Life of Melting the Status Quo 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

The superlative collection of avant-garde art that she managed to smuggle out of France during the German occupation cost her a total of just $40,000. When Collecting Wasn’t All About the Money 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ma Yansong, an avant-garde Chinese designer of the Beijing firm MAD Architects who designed the Toronto-area “Marilyn Monroe” towers, will design the building for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. George Lucas Museum Chooses an Avant-Garde Architect for Chicago Site 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

It was a radical show in a conformist era for TV, taking daring, even avant-garde aesthetic risks along the way. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

“One hundred years ago, the avant-garde was defined by groups,” she said. Still Fighting Over the Turner Prize 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

They also played a game of avant-garde Twister, in which had Mr. Badgley had to keep either both hands and one foot on the floor, or both feet and one hand. Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The three-day festival, which runs Friday through Sunday, lets visitors admire quilts, from traditional to avant-garde; attend workshops; and buy quilting supplies. Cheap Fun: La Conner Quilt Festival 2011-09-29T19:56:03Z

Originally from Japan, Fujii earned degrees at the Berklee College and New England Conservatory and has become a strikingly productive and imaginative member of the international avant-garde. Pianist Satoko Fujii to play Royal Room | Concert preview 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Net Art is not over,” Mr. Tribe said, “but it is over as an avant-garde art movement.” The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Norman eventually sought out a middle ground, employing the techniques of the avant-garde as building blocks for a hyper-kinetic, post-Romantic style. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

This seat-of-the-pants theater company, at whose clumsy, makeshift antics we’ve been laughing, is to be regarded as a troupe of serious avant-garde artists? Review: ‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Even with such a brief career, she was one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early-twentieth-century Japan. The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

The historic center for avant-garde film programming in New York, Anthology Film Archives, is putting its intellectual weight behind the delicacy of girlhood with the series “A Real Young Girl: Coming of Age.” Things to Do With Kids in N.Y.C. This Summer 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

"We liked how Bjork could be so free and creative in the way she could express avant-garde ideas while still making pop." Warpaint's patience is paying off 2011-03-18T22:10:00Z

Indulge in the German proclivity for avant-garde eyewear at this diminutive shop, opened last April. Five Places to Go in Berlin 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The sense of compression brings to mind the “social condensers” created by Soviet avant-garde architects in the 1920s, communal spaces designed as a means of breaking down bourgeois individualism. Designed to Help Uplift the Poor 2010-02-18T17:25:00Z

Renowned avant-garde artists have attempted to capture his fighting spirit in paintings that line the walls. Bruce Lee's legacy still debated 40 years after his death 2013-07-18T05:45:26Z

Ultimately though, she said what struck her most about the archive was the quality of Derbyshire's work and its avant-garde style. Celebrating Doctor Who's Delia 2013-01-11T16:40:51Z

Polly tells me that back in Austin she used to book avant-garde “noise” music bands. The Amazing Acro-Cats: the touring circus that proves cats can be trained 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Soon Ms. Stuart was living the artist’s life — a lone gringa ingénue embraced by the avant-garde. Michelle Stuart’s Work at the Parrish Art Museum 2013-08-29T21:35:15Z

“The most avant-garde thing you can do in the world today is live sober, because if there was ever a time you’d want to switch off all the feelings it’s now, right?” She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Quennets,” by Philip Terry, is a book of experimental poetry, purchased in a fit of avant-garde fervour that I will no doubt get round to one of these decades. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

There are works from this movement — which paralleled the “return to order” trend in France, away from the avant-garde — in the Museo del Novecento, but they form only a small part of the contents. Special Report: Museums: A Milan Home for Modern Art 2011-03-22T17:00:08Z

She had been inspired, she said, to form a “safe space” for avant-garde music in the late 1950s, after watching a televised concert in which the composer John Cage was booed offstage. Mary Bauermeister, Avant-Garde Artist and Host, Dies at 88 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

Pictures of avant-garde art had been included, often with mocking commentary, in New York newspapers and magazines for years. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z

Attempts to turn an aging Highland Park church into a venue catering to independent and avant-garde music may now be hinging on a prayer. Highland Park's Church on York ordered to pull the plug on music 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It is often considered “art of the establishment” rather than avant-garde, Mr. Arenson said. The Artist Who Beautified California Banks 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

He joined Rio de Janeiro’s avant-garde circles while still a teenager, making crisp geometric paintings inspired by Mondrian’s abstractions. Celebrating Hélio Oiticica’s Prodigious Run 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

I asked Meng this question directly during one of the panel discussions, as it happens, and he responded with practiced mystification: “avant-garde is to be simpler than simple and more complicated than complicated.” Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

Pujol, one of The World's 50 Best Restaurants, is an established pillar of avant-garde Mexican cuisine, but a slew of cheaper yet no less ambitious eateries seem to crop up daily. Trip Tips: Mexico City for the hipster and history buff 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Even examples from the most avant-garde side of classical have found an enduring home on soundtracks, despite being excluded from the standard concert repertoire. Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

This might seem a daring project, taking a chance on the first grand opera from a hot composer and librettist team who have worked in more avant-garde circles. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

He also had a high-culture side and an appreciation of the avant-garde. Michael White, Colorful Impresario With a Taste for the Outlandish, Dies at 80 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Ichiyanagi heard a Cage piece at a recital by pianist David Tudor and became enthusiastic about avant-garde American music. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zarug said his diversification into Russian avant-garde art happened by chance. Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Palmer was inspired by Blake, among others, and founded an early avant-garde movement known as the Ancients. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z

She described a goddaughter getting married this year who is considering something “very avant-garde and shredded.” The Latest Bridal Dress Collections Showed Few New Wrinkles 2014-04-18T21:15:29Z

The Met was trying to be avant-garde, and I think they succeeded, and Bob really wanted to have a show at the Met. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

In fact, the more avant-garde the outfit, the sharper Ms. McAdams looks. Rachel McAdams Tries Short Hair, Sheer Textures and Elie Saab 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Another participant in "Alien She" who seeks to hit that moving target with precision is Miranda July, the avant-garde filmmaker and writer. Riot Grrrls stake a new space in 'Alien She' 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

While he is best known for his theatrical work, the avant-garde stage director and playwright Robert Wilson is an all-around creative soul who, among other things, also paints, draws, sculptures and designs lighting and furniture. | Q&A: Robert Wilson on His Passion for Chairs 2011-09-21T22:57:02Z

Almost a signature style for any graduate of Belgium's avant-garde fashion capital Antwerp - like Dries Van Noten - Doma exposed paneling, buckles, zips and fastenings on his clothes. Playful gender-bending at the Paris fashion shows 2012-09-26T19:09:09Z

Whereas the singer’s acoustic show two years ago at the Athenaeum Theatre was a more hushed, intimate affair, this concert allowed Mangum to give free reign to his avant-garde leanings. Neutral Milk Hotel at the Riviera concert review 2014-02-07T06:28:00Z

Today, the rules for what is and what isn’t avant-garde are still being written. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

It's unlikely that they have read the latest book of the avant-garde verse but, in their own microcosm, they are terrifically knowing. Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z

After that, she became a backup singer for Sun Ra’s avant-garde music collective, the Solar-Myth Arkestra, and in her spare time designed the group’s bold costumes. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Dies at 79; Celebrated Gullah Food and Culture on NPR 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

A musician of great physical force and deep, ruminative intention, he was a larger-than-life hero in avant-garde jazz, a living lodestar. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z

This avant-garde Mediterranean-Israeli restaurant near Union Square has closed after nearly five years. City Harvest Moves Into an Expansive Space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

“On one hand it is becoming more and more totalitarian and closed, and on the other hand it wants to represent itself as a very modern, avant-garde country.” ‘Museum Diplomacy’ as New Pompidou Center Opens in Shanghai 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

TIME: Do It Again includes hook-driven pop as well as some of the most avant-garde material of your careers. Röyksopp & Robyn Interview 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

From the outset it focused on avant-garde European artists, with Picasso – Guernica was shown at the second edition in 1953 – Giacometti and Magritte, but also on geometrical abstraction. São Paulo Bienal/ArtRio – review 2012-10-09T12:59:03Z

Mixing Symbolist dreaminess with Post-Impressionist muscle, Stettheimer rendered her family and New York’s interwar avant-garde as charmed, eccentric, usually androgynous caricatures in expanses of brilliant color. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Art indulged experimentalism and the avant-garde, united less by common aesthetic tendencies and more by shared socialist values. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Most revealing and avant-garde in their simplicity were simple panels of fabric that shielded the front torso but were affixed in the back with only a string of pearls. Art, life and fashion for Chanel on Paris Fashion Week runway 2013-10-01T16:47:46Z

It's taking more of the weird or avant-garde side of music and mixing it with hardcore. Metz: All out, all the time 2013-05-09T22:15:00Z

Not for its musical language — it’s hardly the most avant-garde product of its time — but for its subject matter, an unsparing glimpse at humanity’s potential for fear and evil, unfolding over two relentless hours. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a suitably beautiful and strange visual for the avant-garde artists. Robyn and Roysköpp Go for Gravity In "Monument" Video: Watch 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

These writers and directors absorb influences from Iranian and Argentine cinema, from television sitcoms and avant-garde video, as well as from the new Hollywood and Off Hollywood canon of the 1970s. Critic’s Notebook: BAMcinemaFest, With Jonathan Caouette and Others 2012-06-19T22:25:32Z

Mr. Arcangel seems guided by a somewhat callow faith in the avant-garde, striving to perpetuate its tradition, dating from Duchamp, of laying claim to new areas of nonart for art’s sake. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z

Graham’s expressive modern dance wasn’t to Ms. Childs’s taste — she was really there to study with the avant-garde choreographer Merce Cunningham — but what dancer would turn down such an experience? Lucinda Childs Gets Off the Floor in New Work for the Graham Company 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

They’ll also get a slightly fictionalized, readily digestible account of the life of Lee Miller, an American photographer whose career was encouraged and then eclipsed by her mentor, the avant-garde artist Man Ray. Review | Lee Miller was more than Man Ray’s muse 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Mills, who also served as the cinematographer and editor, incorporates vignettes that resemble the work of the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage. ‘Geographies of Solitude’ Review: Exploring a Wild Island 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

Her brand now operates in the space between the avant-garde designers whose challenging ideas provide fashion's momentum and the commercial meat of selling those trends at mass level. New York fashion week: Victoria Beckham's snug fit between extremes 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Although the Cones would soon embrace the more avant-garde art being practiced in Europe, their preference for the female subject — whether nude or clothed, outdoors or indoors — remained constant. Art Review: What They Loved and What They Bought 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z

It says to scholars and curators that the European avant-garde of the 1960s and ’70s isn’t yet an exhausted field, especially where Eastern Europe is concerned. From Hungary, the Secret Language of the Repressed 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Though Miller "became the enemy of the avant-garde" dramatists of the 1960s, Bigsby argued that Two-Way Mirror was "as radical as anything else going on at the time". Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation 2011-08-19T18:17:25Z

Scandiuzzi naively expected the city "to be a big center for avant-garde theater." It's no act: Scandiuzzi rejuvenates a prime Seattle theater 2012-04-10T22:15:23Z

“It was an insane avant-garde take on a very naturalistic play,” he said, adding with a laugh. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The permanent open-plan exhibition space offers an encyclopedic overview of two millennia of art along with an avant-garde system of presentation. Louvre comes to poor French city, raising eyebrows 2012-12-04T18:46:05Z

In New York, at least, you’ll hear about Mr. Black, a galvanizing presence in avant-garde jazz and one of its most original drummers. Music Review: Three Bands, Floating Their Music on a Cool Breeze 2011-06-12T22:53:07Z

There’s a certain symmetry that this integration should center on the Russian avant-garde as it thrived in the tumultuous years around the Revolution of 1917. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Because the meaning of Paris, after all, like the meaning of the avant-garde, is very simple. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

Snootiness doesn’t bother the original Blue Men, who argue that they never saw themselves as avant-garde, anyway. How Blue Turned to Green: Blue Man Group at 25 Years 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

It also featured an installation designed by architects Freecell and Gia Wolff, which served as a sort of avant-garde kitty play zone. Moment of Friday: Cat show artist Rhonda Lieberman is a fan of cat ballet 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow’s avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian theater director who irked establishment given house arrest 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

The soulful space later was a music venue for the likes of Billie Holiday and Jimi Hendrix, and the home of Seattle's premier avant-garde venue, On the Boards. Review: Dance piece, offbeat comedy are horses of a different color 2011-05-18T20:16:05Z

They were regulars at Galerie SAW Gallery, which booked a steady stream of fringe bands from the punk, hardcore and avant-garde scenes. Metz: All out, all the time 2013-05-09T22:15:00Z

Lambo says this will mean that the Dutch arts will lose a lot of diversity, with the more experimental and avant-garde organisations struggling to survive. European arts cuts: Dutch dance loses out as Netherlands slashes funding 2012-08-02T13:59:11Z

This was not an avant-garde deconstruction or a drag show, though the performance contained flashes of both. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z

The names in this 50th-anniversary retrospective — which is divided into four programs of shorts — read like a roll call of filmmakers any moviegoer interested in the avant-garde should know. 5 Film Series to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

These were clothes for making an entrance, avant-garde pop star style. Business casual needn't apply: Paris is outrageous 2010-09-30T18:37:00Z

A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T14:53:00Z

She’s essentially invented her own hybrid of song and spoken word, a scat style for today’s avant-garde. Live Jazz: Three September Standouts, From Fay Victor to Starebaby 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

He had come out of the pastry kitchens of two of the country’s most determinedly avant-garde restaurants, Alinea and WD-50, and many of his dishes were self-consciously arty and tightly clenched. A Chef Dreams in Mexican at Empellón in Midtown 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Enormously influential at the Darmstadt summer courses in Germany, the unofficial headquarters of the avant-garde, he wrote music fueled by mathematical procedures and experimental rigor. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

But he recalled the academy’s staging of a piece by the avant-garde French director Ariane Mnouchkine as representative of the grand work he thought made an impact. In Alliance, Nets Arena to Offer Arts 2011-06-29T22:18:50Z

The Ensemble was avant-garde, free jazz, atonal music, completely opposite from western music. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

But in New York, where cultures collide and tradition exists alongside the avant-garde, there’s a whole world of dance based around the purely improvisational. Five-Borough Freestyle: Bruk Up 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Rosset also attempted an ambitious union of film and avant-garde literature, short works written by Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter. First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z

He kept up his routines even as he studied theater at New York University and began to work with avant-garde companies like the Wooster Group. In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Literary cachet offered the chance of a deeper, wider and more permanent cultural relevance; Burroughs had an impeccable avant-garde reputation and an image that was at once forbidding and forbidden, remote and culturally potent. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z

An assortment of Chicago avant-garde artists combined for this year's "Dance Shelter" at Hamlin Park, a program that welcomed one 30-year veteran and some very young performers alike. REVIEW: 'Dance Shelter' in Hamlin Park 2011-04-08T19:59:00Z

Pushing 90 and still pushing boundaries, this avant-garde West Coast choreographer is finally packaged and immortalized in “Breath Made Visible,” a well-deserved tribute to a woman who can’t stand still. | 'Breath Made Visible': A Woman Who Can?t Stand Still 2010-04-23T00:20:00Z

His father, a music professor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, played the piece — Carpenter’s first avant-garde composition. Spend Halloween with John Carpenter: Why the horror movie man wants to play scary music, just for you 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

He would not go for strong avant-garde statements in any genre – it was contrary to his very core. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z

In the bourgeois 19th century, Paris was where the avant-garde was invented. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

His poster designs for avant-garde theater groups became well known for their wordplay and their deadpan style, in which symbols of protest were often stitched into the graphics. Jan Sawka, Polish Artist, Dies at 65 2012-08-28T07:23:01Z

It’s a Lennon song and a McCartney song stitched together by George Martin, by means of effects from classical and avant-garde music. My Obsession with a Beatles Song 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

He preached that gospel because he’s the avant-garde preservationist, the go-backward-to-go-forward man. Talent vs. Buzz: the Push-Pull of Coachella 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

In a sense, “I Am Radar” is an avant-garde novel dramatizing the inconsequence of avant-garde art. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

He tells us what happened to the avant-garde. Director at Uzbekistan Museum Is Dismissed and Accused of Crimes 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Among the myriad forms of dissonance associated with jazz’s avant-garde, the most pernicious might be an inconsistency of tense — as in past, present and future. Vision Festival Celebrates Jazz, Both Past and Future 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Me being on a network sitcom … streamers and cable are really what the Emmys are about, the more avant-garde things. Cedric the Entertainer Wants to Make the Emmys More Accessible 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Wantee was an ordinary London girl – she worked on the Marks & Spencer switchboard – and she knew nothing of avant-garde art. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z

She didn’t come out of this commercial world — she came out of the opera world, she came out of the not-for-profit world, she came out of the avant-garde world. How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Women had been making independent and avant-garde films, but they had long been shut out of Hollywood. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Fans of the avant-garde Italian director Romeo Castellucci will be in familiar territory here. Review: A Spanish Stage Provocateur Makes a Blood-Dripping Debut 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Miami’s once sclerotic arts world became roused by many of the newly arrived exiles — including the novelist Reinaldo Arenas and the painter Carlos Alfonzo — who brought an energetic avant-garde spirit and an expansive vision. He Collects the Art of Fellow Cuban Exiles, but Miami Is Home 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Here, in a sprawling and rapturous concert during Coltrane's divisive late period, he set aside his "classic quartet" for fiery and expressive free playing, setting a new course for avant-garde jazz. Coltrane's live 'Offering' shakes the room 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Prince was a pop musician – he never went off and made an unlistenable avant-garde record. Prince is still king, say Hot Chip 2012-12-11T18:55:00Z

Mr. Boulez began his conducting career with a series of Parisian concerts he organized in the mid-1950s, titled “Domaine Musical” and devoted mainly to avant-garde music. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The label’s catalog includes jazz, avant-garde electronica and American folk, featuring emerging artists and archive sessions from the BBC vaults or other sources. Listening Clubs Tantalize Audiophiles in London 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

With many new faces and multiple themes — mainstream jazz, women in jazz, avant-garde jazz, world music, local giants — it cries out for advance planning. Here’s who to see — and why — at Earshot Jazz Festival 2019 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

As a student at Seton Hall University, he created a radio program about avant-garde theater and made experimental films. John Reilly, 74, a Champion of Documentary Video, Dies 2013-08-12T02:12:58Z

To the Wonder," Malick is "pushing it kind of further in an avant-garde direction. Affleck thanks Canada with 'Argo' at Toronto fest 2012-09-08T22:31:04Z

In recent years, P-Orridge, who makes h/er art on the kitchen table of h/er small Lower East Side apartment, has been heralded as a treasure of the avant-garde by global art institutions. The Reinventions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

If Bill Gunn, the godfather of avant-garde horror, had lived long enough—if the studio system had supported him—he might have ingeniously restyled a film like “The Help,” unearthing the hell in the kitchen. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

It is more prose-poem than conventional voiceover and, as with all his work, it is accompanied by an incredibly diverse soundtrack, ranging from Lithuanian folk to Jewish prayer, Billie Holiday to avant-garde jazz. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

"Any granny could turn up and not find it avant-garde." Dance Marathon aims to exhaust Edinburgh festivalgoers 2011-08-05T17:28:06Z

“Every time Cats settles into an admittedly avant-garde shape, an ear twitches or a tail flicks and you’re back thinking about how ghastly the actual cats look.” Lots of fur, few purrs as critics claw 'Cats' musical film 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

When Bomb magazine launched in 1981, it quickly became the collective voice of a very particular urban scene, that of the avant-garde underground of New York in the ’80s. Book review: ‘Bomb: The Author Interviews’ doesn’t capture magazine’s signature voice 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Tate curators argued that nothing would be lost by bringing the history of performance art into the mainstream, away from its improvisatory, rough-and-ready origins in the avant-garde. Tate Modern unlocks Tanks 2012-07-16T15:10:48Z

Additionally, there is nothing avant-garde about fried chicken, catfish and grits or biscuits. A Celebration of Black Southern Food, at JuneBaby in Seattle 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The Art Ensemble of Chicago — a trailblazing group equally dedicated to minimalism and excursion, Pan-African folklore and avant-garde improvising — had been around for about a decade when it began releasing albums on ECM in 1978. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

We won't call it an avant-garde scene, but with a new vision of life, but that was the West Coast. Why the Velvet Underground could only have come from New York 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Flamenco might seem an odd sound for the avant-garde pop star Caroline Polachek to embrace — Rosalía’s influence, perhaps? — but her ever-gleaming vocals dance nimbly enough across “Sunset” to make the whole thing work. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

He’s among the most-called-upon drummer and percussionist on the avant-garde today. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

So, it is fitting that this is the venue for avant-garde contemporary art rather than genteel 19th-century paintings. What to see at Impressionist Normandy: 10 best festival events 2010-04-23T09:44:00Z

De Angelis’s Naples involves a cacophony of colors and sounds, the underground music scene in the city’s avant-garde community centers and the nostalgia of summer festivals hosted by Italy’s once-powerful Communist Party. Netflix Brings the Intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Naples to the Screen 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

“The Renaissance represented the avant-garde, and with Jenny, we’re sending a message of the importance of the avant-garde today,” he said. Jenny Saville’s Nudes Bring Renaissance Masters Down to Earth 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Red Tape’s mission, aside from making theater available to everyone, is to produce works exactly like “The Shipment,” which is avant-garde, political and — as staged here by Wardell Julius Clark — immersive. How Chicago Is Changing Theater, One Storefront at a Time 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

The Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic, has emerged in the last five years as possibly the most secluded destination for avant-garde food. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Rick Owens Muscular furniture and avant-garde fashion in a purist interior of concrete and white walls. Clicks to Bricks: Online Retailers Find the Lure of a Store 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Copenhagen may be best known for its avant-garde cuisine and striking architecture, but it also registers as one of the friendliest cities in the world. These Are the Friendliest Cities in the World 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

The theater is Mr. Leeser’s single nod to the past, making references to the films of the old European avant-garde in witty contrast to the images of commercial Hollywood that dominate the museum’s collections. Architecture Review: Immersed In Images And an Age Of Blurred Boundaries 2011-01-13T22:01:16Z

“Full Frontal” also tracked down an avant-garde filmmaker whose youthful indiscretions involved making what looks like Bergman film for the pro-life movement. I don’t miss Jon Stewart now: Samantha Bee’s hard-hitting political comedy just keeps getting better 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Narrated by the avant-garde musician Laurie Anderson in a vocal timbre that blends her performance mode with a more conversational one, this film is informative and often fascinating. ‘Sisters With Transistors’ Review: How Women Pioneered Electronic Music 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Anderson and Kronos emerged from the avant-garde fringes during the early 1980s, blazing unorthodox trails that would prove durable and unusually popular. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z

At other points the work had all the high-energy markers of the 1970s avant-garde. Two Gems of June: Premieres at Carnegie Hall and Harlem School of the Arts 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Although a vocal advocate for the nonfiction avant-garde, Wilson praised Oppenheimer for matching a creative vision to a subject of geopolitical significance. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

He was much better known in Europe, and especially in the Netherlands, where he was one of the leading figures in a thriving avant-garde jazz scene. Misha Mengelberg, Bold and Spirited Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The luminary tenor saxophonist David Murray has long been both an avant-garde pacesetter and a guardian of tradition. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

He went away from avant-garde music and came back to Crimea and this is one of the first pieces he wrote there. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

For Le Bon de Beauvoir, then, this typewritten addendum reveals so much more than just the inner workings of a late avant-garde activist mind: “These lines justify the necessary autonomy of the feminist struggle.” Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’ as a Work in Progress 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

All the while Ms. Lash has created an impressive body of work, combining avant-garde techniques with a post-Romantic expressiveness. Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z

I found a new lease on life playing closer to the underground, more avant-garde sounds. How Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens Navigate Pop 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

This tiny, fertile space in TriBeCa — where Mr. Gurney’s “Heresy” opened on Thursday night — has had a long, warm relationship with this accomplished and prolific playwright, an unlikely alliance of avant-garde and old guard. Theater Review: ‘Heresy,’ by A. R. Gurney, at the Flea Theater 2012-10-13T00:30:06Z

She moved to New York in the late 1970s, appearing in shows of the theatrical avant-garde, including the director Anne Bogart. Deirdre O’Connell, Theater’s Master of the Melancholy Mom 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ishioka’s work for Parco, which embodied an eclectic, avant-garde internationalism rarely seen in Japanese advertisements of the period, helped cement her reputation. Eiko Ishioka, Designer, Dies at 73 2012-01-26T18:29:23Z

In the early days of the Soviet Union, Jews not only held top political positions but also occupied central positions in the artistic avant-garde. The Jews Who Dreamed of Utopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Though the group earned a smattering of fans, its music — “avant-garde African jazz,” its bassist Kimathi Asante called it in an interview — was impossible to market. Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

These are people who are definitely the avant-garde of the world that they are in. Virus Pushes the Bang on a Can Marathon Online 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

He combines the avant-garde with old-world craftsmanship and techniques. | Sotheby's Diamonds Collection 2010-12-01T19:48:00Z

Filmed in the shakiest hand-held style, it featured three actors mooching around hotels and hospitals in a rundown Greek coastal town, sometimes enacting fight scenes that resembled avant-garde choreography rehearsals. Yorgos Lanthimos, ​director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

For years he designed sets and costumes for the leading lights of avant-garde dance, including Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown, and savored artistic collaborations. A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

In 1960s London, Mr. Metzger was at the center of a churning scene of avant-garde art making and political activism. Art Review: If It?s About Atrocity, Does That Make It Good? 2011-06-16T20:47:42Z

Ms. Dean, 44, a former model and a fashion and art-world fixture, certainly inspires her fair share of party photos, with her glamorous avant-garde outfits. Up Close : A Profile of Cecilia Dean 2013-05-08T19:45:33Z

A sense of unpredictability infused “Confluence” for chamber orchestra, by Huang Ruo, whose music meshes influences including Chinese folk, Western avant-garde, rock and jazz. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Where there’s love overflowing” hybridizes the White Cube and the Black Box — the normative settings for fine art and avant-garde theater, respectively. E. Jane Signals a Vibe Shift in What ‘Performance’ Means 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the mid-1960s, as jazz was absorbing the furious output of an emergent avant-garde, Mr. Breuker fell in with European musicians seeking to establish their own take on free improvisation. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z

Frank Zappa will be explored and his status as a "modernist, sophisticated avant-garde composer influenced by Varèse and Cage" asserted, said Mills, with an evening's tribute from Ensemble musikFabrik from Cologne. Edinburgh international festival 2013 lineup announced 2013-03-12T12:27:16Z

It was as if the mainstream and the avant-garde had been allowed to gather and miscegenate in pure, visual abstraction. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Whether playing saxophone or flute — or even, as on his overdubbed solo “Blue Boyé,” both at once — he blended folk traditions with a joyous avant-garde edge. ‘Mastery and Transgression’ in Music That Bridges Genres 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

As recently as 15 years ago, it was one of the few venues in London championing avant-garde art; now it is one among many. ICA readies itself for post-Eshun future 2010-08-31T22:00:00Z

Before the first decade of Mr. Friedman’s directorship was out, he had grown dissatisfied with the Walker’s unwieldy 1927 neo-Moorish building, an uncongenial home for the avant-garde. Martin Friedman, Whose Vision Shaped Walker Art Center, Dies at 90 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

For a while at least, these last few hours are going to be we all we get of this strange Lynchian version of television, where mundane Americana and consciousness-expanding avant-garde art rest side by side. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 15: The Body Electric 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

It’s the animating force, too, of “The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India,” a new exhibition at Asia Society that showcases the leading avant-garde painters of India in the first years after independence. Firebrands Who Forged a New Art for a New India 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

One of the more avant-garde features of the fringe in recent years has been Forest Fringe. Edinburgh festival turns back clock 50 years to literary debates of 1962 2012-08-10T15:45:44Z

The writer-composer-filmmaker-performer’s current output attests to her knack for slipping through borders even as she remains an avant-garde brand name. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s, the Pop artist Wynn Chamberlain often toyed with making a movie and spent time visiting various avant-garde filmmakers on their sets. Unearthing a Celluloid Artifact of the ?60s 2011-04-08T23:38:27Z

She shuts him down pretty quickly: “Privacy is avant-garde now,” Cleo snaps, after upbraiding him for taking photos. ‘Family Album,’ a Musical From Heidi Rodewald and Stew 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

An avant-garde edit of the film would feature nothing but astronauts in motion, like an interplanetary ballet. What's Missing from “The Martian” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Brooklyn Academy of Music, a performing arts venue known for its focus on alternative and avant-garde works, also received a medal from the NEA. Linda Ronstadt is a National Medal of Arts winner, and Obama’s childhood crush

She has boosted the spirits of the American fashion industry with her unconventional mix of avant-garde newcomers and off-the-rack Talbots, and claimed a style-icon award along the way. Front Row: Michelle Obama?s Fashion Sense Is Saluted on Plates 2010-04-15T01:21:00Z

Tarbaby, the searchingly rugged piano trio, wisely teamed up this year with Mr. Lake, an intrepid alto saxophonist and a seasoned elder of the post-1960s avant-garde. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z

Tomeka Reid, one of today’s leading cellists in jazz and avant-garde music, agreed. Abdul Wadud’s Cosmic Cello Music Gets Another Moment in the Sun 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

"I think that live performance is going to be the most avant-garde aspect of our lives if these devices keep making inroads into how people are relating to the world," she says. Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Created in England in 1999, it exists without corporate sponsorship or mainstream headliners, playing host to a slew of avant-garde noise music, indie rock and underground hip-hop acts. | All Tomorrow's Parties 2010-10-11T15:01:00Z

Leading specialists in avant-garde art of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries are chortling in delight. Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound 2010-03-19T15:25:00Z

"Of course I am avant-garde, I'm from Antwerp," Doma said backstage. Playful gender-bending at the Paris fashion shows 2012-09-26T19:09:09Z

It was once said of Kaul that he refused to be a passive carrier of the national artistic tradition and, with equal vehemence, was unconcerned with importing into India the western avant-garde experiment. Mani Kaul obituary 2011-07-14T17:33:24Z

The leopards are the artists of the avant-garde, instinctive animals like Picasso, Pollock and Julian Schnabel who desecrate the hallowed precincts of high art and introduce a wild new beauty and freedom. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z

There's nothing coldly avant-garde about this group, which seems to skip amicably into projects. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Directed by the avant-garde video team Brewer, the clip animates stills drawn by fans at the Seventh Letter gallery in L.A. Justin Bieber, Diplo and Skrillex release video for 'Where Are U Now' 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s not unusual for contemporary music to appear in New York’s churches, where chamber groups and orchestras often present very secular programs of avant-garde composition. Review: 50 Violins, 50 Computer Chips, a Secular Prayer 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The 1959 exhibition, designed by Fuller and George Nelson, was seen by more than three million Russians, despite a barrage of hostile government propaganda against the consumer culture and avant-garde art on display. Jack Masey, Whose Exhibitions Showed American Culture to World, Dies at 91 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Click to enlarge In February 1968, the avant-garde legend Marcel Duchamp hosted an informal dinner in New York for a group of local artists. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z

“Almost every hat she wears is strategic, ensuring her face is fully visible but also framed in a range of styles over the years that were often considered very avant-garde for their day.” Inside Queen Elizabeth II’s Wardrobe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The Pyramids were trying to make a living as an avant-garde band when even the most popular jazz musicians struggled to find their footing in a marketplace dominated by funk. Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Yet what some see as contemporary work is not avant-garde, but commercial dance more aligned to what you might see on the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance.” What Does a Dancing Body Feel Like in Ukraine? ‘I Am a Gun.’ 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

More often, it’s where writers launch into a caricatured plot point overflowing with a predictable cast of characters: the snobbish maître d’, the avant-garde chef, the haughty sommelier. You are what — and where — you eat: From the Lanford Inn seafood buffet to those “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” organic strawberry donuts 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Archival footage will also be shown, and original members of Mr. Louis’s dance company will discuss his avant-garde impact on 20th-century dance. Dance Listings for Nov. 20-26 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

This is not to paint Aickman as some avant-garde prose stylist, spinning gaudy riddles for his reader. Scary stories for Halloween: The Hospice by Robert Aickman 2012-10-29T10:43:57Z

They told me stuff that was avant-garde, avant-garde. | Sexy Beast 2014-02-07T17:56:52Z

As a teenager, he would tell his mother he was going there to practice the violin, then sneak off to see performances by Ms. Anderson or the avant-garde playwright Robert Wilson. Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

Yet Kahlo was a pioneer in self-disclosure, a national advocate and an essential social connector, brokering introductions between Americans and Europeans and the local avant-garde. Frida Kahlo’s Home Is Still Unlocking Secrets, 50 Years Later 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

I mean, of course the underground and avant-garde scene in New York were very excited by that and that's also why Andy Warhol loved the band so much. Why the Velvet Underground could only have come from New York 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

“People very happily go to the most avant-garde art exhibitions and get what they can out of it,” he said. 109 Players. 3 Conductors. It’s Even Harder Than It Sounds. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

The archive it has accumulated over the last 14 months — full sets, entirely free to stream — amounts to a rare living record of the currents flowing through New York’s performance avant-garde. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Born in Detroit, Johnson came up in the avant-garde world of American art in the 1940s and ’50s. Ray Johnson’s Camera Was Disposable. The Photos Are Unforgettable. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

The post-World War II determination to sever avant-garde music from the past has long ended. Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Drawing attention to “Beethoven the avant-gardist” raises the question of whether there is still an avant-garde in composition. Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

She will convene a different combo on each of the following nights — featuring all-stars of the avant-garde — before wrapping things up with a quintet performance on Aug. 10 dedicated to the music of Anthony Braxton. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Back then, he was really avant-garde and weird,” Mr. Bauman said. These N.B.A. Dancers Bring Their High Kicks Courtside 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

But it is, unfortunately, avant-garde in its concerns, advancing a woefully belated discussion about making people with disabilities welcome in the theater both as audiences and artists. The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Does she mean the avant-garde dream of truly autonomous art? Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power. She Uses It for Change. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

The works included silent screen tests, portraits of his muses including Edie Sedgwick, and dozens of full-length movies in styles ranging from minimalist avant-garde to commercial "sexploitation". Unseen Warhol films to be digitised 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Since the 1960s, reclaimed industrial space has replaced traditional galleries as the chosen theatre of avant-garde art. Tanks for everything, Tate Modern 2012-07-13T11:48:53Z

They came up with their name after becoming obsessed with Dogme 95 and avant-garde Danish cinema, and Denmark in general. New band of the day - Drenge (No 1,438) 2013-01-24T13:53:00Z

With his anti-establishment views and avant-garde musical leanings, Mr. Davies was a surprise choice in 2004 as Master of the Queen’s Music. Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer and ‘Master of the Queen’s Music,’ dies at 81 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

It soon became the hangout for the younger avant-garde, although the few buyers were mainly dealers or adventurous collectors like Richard Brown Baker. Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

In Europe he met Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder and many other players on the avant-garde scene. Critic?s Notebook: Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds 2011-04-14T22:25:54Z

At one end of the spectrum there is Kanye West, who looks to be taking the music video into ambitious, avant-garde territory. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Alienation and paranoia, exhausted themes of avant-garde theater, came roaring back to relevance in “The Dark Master,” in part because of Kaneko’s engagement in the material but in part because of mine. Theater Heads North, and in Every Direction at Once 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Not only is it a montage film with much parallel action, but the costumes, makeup, hair styles, production design and even the herky-jerky dances are also highly suggestive of Russia’s 1920s Constructivist avant-garde. Revisiting the Downtown Scene Through Alien Eyes in ‘Liquid Sky’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Eastman was a pianist, composer, and dancer who tried, in the sixties and seventies, to bridge the worlds of classical music, pop music, and the downtown avant-garde. Song of the Summer: “Femenine,” by Julius Eastman 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde work of the 20th century echoes ice-age art – not to mention African masks and Oceanian statues – because artists like Picasso chose to emulate whatever freed their minds from western realism. Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Da Vinci surpassed this' 2013-02-05T16:44:01Z

But Heldman’s larger importance was that his club, which had an open-door policy for novices, served as a bridge between the old guard mainstream and the expressive abstractions of the avant-garde. A jazz retrieval, a Beatles translation & Cat Stevens redux | New recordings 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

As he chronicled the new music scene in L.A., and particularly that of progressive composers, he found his Old World tendencies in conflict with an avant-garde, both American and European. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

On the other side of the scale, if it has some beauty, and it’s emotional music, something like Smiths often did -- I like something deeply dramatic, without it being avant-garde. Johnny Marr interview: A guitar hero who serves the song 2013-04-18T21:32:00Z

I was able to hang the pictures salon-style in my office, angling some in corners in the manner of Russian avant-garde exhibitions of a hundred years ago. A Former Art Director's Modern Desert Retreat 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Investigation of Horror,” which recreated a soiree of 1930s avant-garde philosophers, complete with real-time potato-peeling and intense debates, looked at times like a “Saturday Night Live” parody. Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

But the Mexican elements are superficial, often just a bit of color or spice mixed into the standard avant-garde recipe. Artists helped make the Mexican revolution an international phenomenon 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Abstract expressionism was the dominant avant-garde style of the postwar period, and Guston, who had been a close friend of Jackson Pollock’s in his youth, became one of its most acclaimed practitioners. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

At the time, her reputation was still confined to a small circle of avant-garde artists, writers and musicians in New York and Tokyo. Review: In ‘Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971,’ Text Messages From the Edge 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Or, to put it another way, why did the San Francisco Bay Area become a humming hub for so many great avant-garde film and video makers, a veritable crossroads of the alternative world? Critic?s Notebook: San Francisco, the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z

That’s because the only thing that sounds less appealing than “experimental theater” might be “avant-garde,” which evokes a turtlenecked Frenchman approaching with a sword. Critic?s Notebook: Festivals: Under the Radar, Coil, Other Forces, American Realness 2012-01-03T23:36:36Z

The result – a near metropolis in its own right, complete with roads and buildings criss-crossing each another in the sky – lifted the ministry high above a forest, letting nature and avant-garde architecture live happily together. Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z

Andrew Cyrille, the esteemed avant-garde drummer, will be an artist in residence, appearing in at least three different groups over the course of the festival. NYC Winter Jazzfest to Honor Thelonious Monk 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton The dedicatedly avant-garde Katie Mitchell astonished many last year with her playful production of The Cat in the Hat. Beauty and the Beast - review 2010-12-02T00:20:00Z

Along with the composer Milton Babbitt, who died in 2011, he was once considered emblematic of so-called uptown, the world of the academic avant-garde. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

But now I had a place to put my displaced radicalism: the avant-garde. Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling) 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

In some circles, he’s thought of as a jazz drummer; in others, he fits in more as an avant-garde composer. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Crucial to Mr. Isozaki’s avant-garde approach to architecture is the Japanese concept of ma, signifying the merging of time and space, which was the subject of a traveling exhibition in 1978. Pritzker Prize Goes to Arata Isozaki, Designer for a Postwar World 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Martens, also the designer of the Y/Project label, has long embodied avant-garde trashiness. A New Kind of Model: Giant, Inflatable, Aggressively Sexy 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The production is a clever quilt of the famous ballet’s history: Mr. Ratmansky incorporated steps from the 1890 Russian premiere and borrowed from the avant-garde costume design of a 1921 staging. Dance Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

This double sense, both comic and tragic, of human inadequacy and divine aspiration is what gives “Whales” its enduring appeal, including to audiences who usually steer clear of the avant-garde. Theater Review: Culture Project?s Revival of ?And God Created Great Whales? 2012-02-16T01:03:49Z

The fourth distillery I visited was founded in 2015, but it’s hardly avant-garde. Savoring Bourbon, and Its Storied History, in Northern Kentucky 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

There is basic chocolate for the masses, artisanal chocolate for purists and avant-garde creations for connoisseurs. Brussels: The Chocolate Trail 2011-12-23T17:57:07Z

Calling it Canyon Cinema, after a nearby California town, this alt-enterprise grew and eventually morphed into one of the country’s most important distributors for avant-garde and experimental work. Bruce Baillie, a Film-Poet Collapsing Inner and Outer Space 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Elevator is a monthly showcase for experimental and avant-garde music, and this seventh edition features three musicians who explore new sonic avenues using rock’s most staid instrument: the guitar. Your week in Seattle music: Sam Smith, the Sasquatch! launch party and more 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

This is a good recipe for this venerable home of the British avant-garde to reclaim its laurels. What Gregor Muir can do for the ICA 2011-01-11T12:25:08Z

Though indebted to Baldwin and Wright, the film’s distinctive aesthetics reflect Johnson’s background as an experimental photographer and Parks’s flair for avant-garde dialogue. A ‘Native Son’ Reimagined, With James Baldwin in Mind 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

We expect literary revolutions to come from above, from the literary end of the spectrum — the difficult, the avant-garde, the high-end, the densely written. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

Younger South Korean collectors have started to collect art from the Dansaekhwa and avant-garde movements, she said, with an appreciation of the artistic history of their country that hasn’t always been obvious to younger generations. Exploring a Transformational Period in Korean Art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Its music drew from urban and rural sources, from deep blues and Latin rhythms, from jazz and the avant-garde. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Compared to those gutsy avant-garde extravaganzas, Philip Stölzl’s sleek, handsome production of “The Inheritance” felt tame. ‘The Inheritance’ Arrives at a Festival of German Drama 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Staged with dazzling exactitude by Robert Wilson, the avant-garde sweetheart of the globe-spanning theater circuit, the show is scheduled to move on to festivals in Spoleto, Italy, and Epidaurus, Greece, this month. Theater Review: ‘The Old Woman’ Stars Dafoe and Baryshnikov 2013-07-08T21:03:21Z

It is also, as Novak said, a way to remind the public that Taylor, too, had been a member of the avant-garde. The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

I spent 10 years in a very avant-garde jazz group. Kenny Rogers 2013-06-27T12:01:01Z

As early as 1970, he told Ms. Sheppard, the fashion critic, that “I like seeing people looking at TV, seeing avant-garde plays.” Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Even with its cautious diversification, the convention represents the conservative uptown wing of a field whose downtown avant-garde increasingly merges music with performance art, political satire and gender and genre bending. Review: New York Cabaret Convention Slips In Modern Flourishes 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Saariaho, though, is directly descended from the grand avant-garde tradition that began with Boulez and Stockhausen and branched out in the final decades of the twentieth century, notably with French spectralism. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, Mr. van Zweden’s first official rehearsal was not with the players of the Philharmonic, but with a group of avant-garde musician guests. A High-Pressure Countdown for the New York Philharmonic’s New Maestro 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

A nationwide audience of millions watched the broadcast, and both the orchestra and the network were subsequently inundated with letters from viewers outraged by this densely avant-garde music. Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

He was prominent in New York’s No Wave and avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1980s; he played hard rock with Henry Rollins in the ’90s. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Kern said that during this time she “was surrounded by real edgy, avant-garde people,” but that, compared with her colleagues, “she was a very conservative modernist.” The Thorny History of the Salzburg Festival’s Logo 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Hutchins, who died in August, was spurred by a request from the avant-garde composer Henry Brant. Music Review: At the Tank, New Sounds From New Strings 2010-05-31T22:56:00Z

Ms. Melford is justly regarded as a fixture of the avant-garde, but in this band, with resources like Mr. Ellman’s light-fingered precision and Mr. Miles’s mournful but succulent tone, she strives for dynamic approachability. Review: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Subtly Recalls Its Inspiration 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

There’s no better avant-garde kitchen than the spectacle known as Minibar, and few standard-bearers of fine dining as delicious and innovative as Pineapple and Pearls. Perspective | Michelin is too buttoned-up to see the stars of D.C.’s dining scene 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

"Swarm" isn't quite that far out on the scale between "Law & Order" and European avant-garde cinema in that its targets are as obvious as its meta-narrative winks. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

The pieces were visually linked in a surreal staging by the avant-garde theater artist Michael Counts. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

And if the avant-garde is no longer tantalized? Is Roland Mouret More Than a One-Hit Wonder? 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Limited to panels of black, white and crimson, the selection builds on a legacy of Russian avant-garde art from a century ago. James Hayward's monochromatic installation delivers contemplative bliss 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Livermore considers the group “the true avant-garde of its time,” pointing to moments in the opera that shock the audience in thriller-like fashion. An Opera That Travels Through Time 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

For all his advocacy of the avant-garde, Pintscher may be something of a romantic at heart. A great first date for the L.A. Chamber Orchestra and Matthias Pintscher. Will there be a second? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Li trained in flamenco and mixes its splashy drama with her love for fashion and the avant-garde, making an intelligent spectacle in the process. Dance Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Early in her career, Jessye Norman was thought too large for the lyric stage until avant-garde director Robert Wilson began working with her. Glyndebourne's 'Rosenkavalier,' hit by catty reviews, set for webcast 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

"It shows Matisse hungrily tasting an avant-garde style." Matisse's "aha" moment subject of U.S. museum show 2010-03-23T22:35:00Z

At the Galerie Berès, long renowned for its sophisticated works by avant-garde artists of the late 19th century, the change of direction is startling. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z

Moby, Phantogram and the avant-garde circus troupe Lucent Dossier shared the five stages with acts like the Polish Ambassador and the Earth Harp. Burning Man Spawns New Age Festivals 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The two enjoy local restaurants, see an avant-garde dance performance and visit a disco, though Michael calls it a night when Tomer offers him MDMA. ‘Sublet’ Review: A Less-Than-Intrepid Traveler 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

After studying mime with Marcel Marceau, she began her career on stage at the avant-garde Théâtre Lancry. Tsilla Chelton obituary 2012-07-22T16:24:34Z

Setting out with an interest in experimental avant-garde films, he made his name in the late 1980s with the art-house film “Drugstore Cowboy,” following it in 1991 with “My Own Private Idaho.” Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

And Ensor began to make highly politicized -- though always humorous -- works that satirized the government, the Catholic Church, the bourgeoisie, the art establishment and even the art avant-garde. Object Lesson: When James Ensor turned to skeletons and satire 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

After six months, he expanded the show’s reach to include experimentalists of all stripes in a city Haire considers a hotbed for avant-garde artists. Seattle music’s champion of weird, Doug Haire, ends KEXP’s ‘Sonarchy’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

“She mingled at Cedar Tavern,” Ms. Rajaratnam said, referring to the watering hole of Jackson Pollock and other avant-garde artists. Out of Obscurity, Lynne Drexler’s Abstract Paintings Fetch Millions 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

He insisted, sometimes quite vehemently, that Art Brut was superior to established academic and avant-garde strains because it was spontaneous, untutored and innocent, free of self-interest or the profit motive. ‘Art Brut in America’ Highlights Outsider Artists, No Longer Looking In 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The 1920s avant-garde in Europe were really exploring the medium, not just with the image, but also the acting. Pablo Berger: 'A movie's like a paella, you put all of your obsessions in there' 2013-07-11T13:58:00Z

His avant-garde act in a dog collar and eye makeup opened the door for artists such as David Bowie to take androgynous looks into the mainstream. Rocker Lou Reed of Velvet Underground dies at 71: Rolling Stone 2013-10-27T18:31:28Z

If you understand that, you can do avant-garde cooking.” Books of The Times: A Chef as Visionary, Poet and Chemist 2010-10-05T17:16:00Z

“These days I actively look for emerging artists who carry on an avant-garde spirit and address critical real-life challenges.” After Pak and Beeple, What’s Next for NFT Collectors? Art Made With a Paintbrush 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

But I've already said too much, simply by declaring you should be on your guard — your avant-garde — when you see Wild Grass. 'Wild Grass': Resnais' Delightful Con Game 2010-06-25T18:25:00Z

To Latin American transplants it was a stage where a politics of aesthetics was playing out in new avant-garde styles and forms: Minimalism, Conceptualism, video and performance. Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’ 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

In essence this is an uptown variation of the approach that flourishes in Lower Manhattan at the IFC Center, Film Forum and Anthology Film Archives, a red-brick remnant and bulwark of the old downtown avant-garde. Critic?s Notebook: Ushering In Golden Age for Fans of Film 2011-06-14T23:58:21Z

I was doing sort of avant-garde performances in big galleries like the Tate Modern. Snapshot: Paloma Faith Releases ‘Fall to Grace’ in America 2012-11-29T15:22:41Z

Months after recording his avant-garde springboard “Ascension,” Coltrane trekked to Seattle with his new band featuring his “spiritual jazz” mate Pharoah Sanders. You can’t go to live concerts. But you can listen to these 6 essential Seattle live albums 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Once this was the property of avant-garde fiction; in recent years it has become a tendency in fiction that appeals to a mass readership. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

Here in the United States, one of Miku’s most promising collaborators is Laurel Halo, a plain old human being responsible for some of today’s most intriguing avant-garde electronic pop. On a scale of Monkees-to-Gorillaz, how should we evaluate fictional music? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Many of its tools of subversion date to the early days of the Absurdists and the mind games of Pirandello and Ionesco, while others — more technologically sophisticated — are staples of the contemporary European avant-garde. Review: Theater as Sabotage in the Dazzling ‘Fairview’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

This compilation gathers those and many others — made mostly by the in-house maestro Mannie Fresh — for a set that lands somewhere between bounce futurism and avant-garde techno. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

He kept dual professional tracks active — commercial religious sculpture and avant-garde modernism — for years. Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Not long ago, it would have been embarrassing for adults to admit that they found avant-garde painting too difficult and preferred the comforts of story time. With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bandy secured rare prints and negatives of films by silent-era directors like D. W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin and early avant-garde filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and the artist Man Ray. Mary Lea Bandy, Film Preservationist for MoMA, Dies at 71 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

He wouldn’t see the works that influenced him most deeply until his Greenwich Village years in the 1950s, when he fell in with a circle of avant-garde artists, musicians and intellectuals. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

His insistence that clothing was a form of design was considered avant-garde in the early years of his career, and he had notable collaborations with photographers and architects. Issey Miyake, Japanese Fashion Designer, Dies at 84 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

Or if you're not on drugs, then please severely limit your exposure to avant-garde rock'n'roll! Readers recommend: fantasy songs 2010-10-07T23:01:00Z

But on Friday they will appear in part of “The Great Learning,” Cornelius Cardew’s masterpiece of the postwar avant-garde that is in equal parts live music, performance art and social experiment. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z

Though his early works embraced European postwar avant-garde styles, including serialism and electronic music, Mr. Andriessen kept an ear on American developments too and quickly found his own path. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z

Mr. Mazurek created Exploding Star Orchestra in 2005 after the Chicago Cultural Center and the Jazz Institute of Chicago commissioned him to form a group that personified the city’s new avant-garde scene. Rob Mazurek’s Intergalactic Jazz Aims for a New Dimension 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Andrew Drury is a sensitive avant-garde drummer, but he’s also a lot else. The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

When I first saw him perform in 2008, he was doing a solo show called “Disinformation” in a festival at the Public Theater, and traces of the downtown avant-garde remain in his comedy. Reggie Watts, the Tip of Comedy’s Absurdist Spear 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

That evolution from dark to colorful is no surprise to the artists and curators who have charted his career and the history of the avant-garde movement in South Korea. A Founding Father of Korean Multimedia Comes to Maastricht 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Born in America, Fuller was a Folies-Bergère star and avant-garde darling who inspired artists to think of drawing not as static and finite but as action in space and lines as points in motion. Art Review: Squiggly, Tangly and Angular 2010-12-01T22:55:00Z

Through textures of funk, disco and Middle Eastern avant-garde, “Mordechai” is a nostalgic LP that explores human memory. ‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

The reissue surge has also brought attention to artists either dead or no longer involved in avant-garde music. Rediscovering the Electronic Music Godmothers 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z

Sybille; it was a place where the avant-garde designers would work and the best photographers. Now Showing | Ute Mahler's G.D.R. Chic 2010-02-17T20:11:00Z

Miyatake's image is emblematic of the uniqueness of avant-garde Japanese American photography. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

During these years Mr. De Maria was part of San Francisco’s developing avant-garde scene, participating in “Happenings” and theatrical performances and turning increasingly to three-dimensional works. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z

“Mr. Nice” is an affable throwback to those guilt-free days when hippie drug dealers radiated the glamorous aura of avant-garde heroes risking prison to spread the doctrine of liberation through cannabis. | 'Mr. Nice': Reliving a Drug Dealer?s Halcyon Days 2011-06-02T21:47:04Z

When Spain became an avant-garde culinary destination at the end of the 1980s, it was mostly thanks to chefs in the Basque Country and Barcelona. Restaurant Report: Dstage in Madrid 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

But anyone looking for the lowdown on haute cuisine will be sorely disappointed: devoid of emotion, context or narrative, the baffling avant-garde techniques and extreme politesse of the lab become oppressively dull. | 'El Bulli': Pushing Cuisine?s Envelope, on a Molecular Level 2011-07-26T16:43:02Z

The Chinese composer Tan Dun first attracted attention with skillfully wrought concert works in which ancient Chinese folkloric instruments and techniques mingled in potent collusion with a Western avant-garde vocabulary. Music Review: Evoking Forbidden Love and Flying Ancient Armies 2011-08-14T21:21:17Z

Thanksgiving is a time for making people happy, not for persuading them to drink avant-garde styles that you love but that may bewilder mainstream drinkers. Your Easy, No-Sweat Guide to Picking Wines for Thanksgiving 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s as the unlikely grande dame of Russian pianists, she made contact with the avant-garde likes of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen and championed young Soviet rebels such as Alfred Schnittke. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

"He was using the art of the golden age in Spain to assert his avant-garde credentials," said Richardson. Picasso nearly risked his reputation for Franco exhibition 2010-05-27T23:05:00Z

It expands the history of the European avant-garde known as the Situationist International to include Congolese intellectuals, while also recounting the writing of a protest song that emerges tantalizingly as the film progresses. Review: Art for the Planet’s Sake at the Venice Biennale 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Berlin Exhibition Highlights Soviet Architecture Eager to distance themselves from their imperialist past and embody the new ideals of the Soviet state, the architects of Communist Russia created avant-garde structures with a social purpose.  In Transit Blog: Berlin Exhibition Highlights Soviet Architecture 2012-05-31T01:52:43Z

“Harvey, in his most avant-garde heart, loved Robert Wilson, and felt he was on a divine mission to make sure that Bob’s large-scale work was seen in the U.S.,” ‘It Was a Crusade’: Karen Brooks Hopkins Revisits Her BAM Tenure 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

The Red Bull Music Academy Festival offers three full-scale genre immersions this week: in dancehall, noise and what might be called avant-garde ambience. The Red Bull Music Academy Festival Arrives 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Could it suggest that the avant-garde, which was once seen as incendiary and subversive, is so enfeebled that it is reduced to the role of a real estate developers’ marketing ploy? Design: The Power, or Folly, of a Product's Name 2011-10-30T13:00:09Z

Finally, there are the Next and New Frontier offerings — films made on ultra-low budgets and avant-garde projects that are more media installation than movie. Carpetbagger Blog: Delusional Teenagers and Other Sundance Offerings 2011-12-01T21:00:42Z

Onstage, Andrew W.K. is an idiosyncratic musician who is perched behind the piano, playing a headbanging, oddly cathartic blend of classical, heavy metal and avant-garde riffs. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

And their avant-garde work informed his nontraditional artistic practice as well. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Period martial arts movies and sleek modern policiers; family dramas next door to raunchy comedies; avant-garde sex and violence versus solemn considerations of social justice — the festival probably has something you’re looking for. The New York Asian Film Festival Returns 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Bazille identified with the impulses of the avant-garde, even as his own painting oscillated between traditional and radical tendencies. Review | Young, gifted, and cut down by a stupid war 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

He prides himself on having once played the orchard in an avant-garde production of “The Cherry Orchard.” Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Three of the architects were part of the avant-garde architectural collective Archigram. How skaters make cities safer – and the fight to save the Southbank skatepark 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Bordeaux will never be a cutting-edge, avant-garde region. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

If your taste runs to the avant-garde, the Sunday night Racer Sessions, in the University District, is for you. Where to go for local jazz, post-Tula’s? Here are some options, including a new series from KNKX and Jazz Alley 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Known for his avant-garde creations, Gareth Pugh said he was celebrating “outsider society” and “London as a cradle of creative extremism” at his show, where red- and black-lined prints and bright colors dominated. Model Alexa Chung's brand takes off at London Fashion Week 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Her music is not as avant-garde as that of Berlioz, for example, but it is so solidly constructed.” Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The collective sensibility on display is determinedly forward looking; you might even say avant-garde. | '3': Tom Tyker?s ?3,? a Comedy of Adultery - Review 2011-09-15T22:32:35Z

He engages here in duologue with Mr. Cyrille, an exacting and uningratiating drummer who had some history with Mr. Lacy, and many other important figures in the avant-garde. Jazz Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

For Stockhausen, there was no distinction between pushing musical technique and avant-garde thinking to its limits and the concoction of new kinds of "spiritual food". A guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen's music 2013-05-07T16:40:45Z

In the article Mr. Klein describes Mr. Culhane, who was credited in his work then as James Culhane, as a devotee of the avant-garde. That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret 2011-04-10T22:05:14Z

There are cultural contexts and moments in our history that are favorable for the avant-garde, and of course, consequently, moments when that is not the case. Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

And what if a certain 20th-century abstract sculptor owed as much of a debt to traditional Asian ink-brush painting as he did to the European avant-garde? At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z

Some say Bob Dylan, but I think the songs Dylan has written that are regarded as poetry are more avant-garde, possibly in the Allen Ginsberg realm. Bernie Taupin Tells the Story Behind 1972’s ‘Rocket Man’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The company's trademark avant-garde style, layering an elaborate technical design over a nonliteral, nonlinear approach to stage action, is strangely flattened. A licensing decree prohibiting reviews of 'The Room' at REDCAT overshadows the production, which is iffy 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

A child of post-Soviet chaos, as brilliant as she was ferocious, she was employed by an avant-garde global corporation as their in-house murderess. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

How better, he thought, to lure a sophisticated, international workforce to soybean country 45 miles south of Indianapolis than with an avant-garde oasis? Seen ‘Columbus,’ the movie? Meet Columbus, the modernist mecca 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

But it was only in the mid-1970s that his reputation in avant-garde circles grew with his work for Godard and Rivette. William Lubtchansky obituary 2010-05-12T18:07:00Z

They borrowed the techniques and formal devices of avant-garde Western painting. V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Pierre Boulez emerged in the late 1940s in Paris as a combative modernist, the brash new leader of the avant-garde. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Early in her career, she settled on drawing as a primary medium and abstraction as a mode, unusual choices when the most visible avant-garde Indian art was figurative painting with a political bent. A Question Still Hanging at the Met Breuer: Why? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

And with the Industry, an avant-garde opera company in Los Angeles, he workshopped an adaptation of Brecht’s “Life of Galileo.” One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

At Art & Design, the interaction between the finest avant-garde design and leading 20th-century masters is undoubtedly a powerful incentive. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

In a dress-down era of jeans, beards and denim jackets, Bowie as Ziggy went onstage in heels, makeup, boas and avant-garde costumes made for him by young designers like Japan’s Kansai Yamamoto. David Bowie: Back to His Mysterious Best 2013-03-07T12:00:25Z

An ecumenical cellist and vocalist, Ms. Hughes ranges deftly into chamber music, indie rock, R&B and avant-garde improvising. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

After graduation she joined Rauschenberg and other classmates in New York, where she became part of the avant-garde dance and performance scene at Judson Memorial Church. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z

But where avant-garde permanent revolution ends and novelty-seeking consumerism begins is a moot point. Comfort zones 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Arts for Art, now in its third decade, presents avant-garde throughout the year and at the annual Vision Festival. At 30, What Does Jazz at Lincoln Center Mean? 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, “Unsupervised” suggests that creating the next avant-garde should be easy, if you have enough computing power. MoMA’s Daydream of Progress 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

The avant-garde Dutch composer Jacob Ter Veldhuis, otherwise known as Jacob TV, uses samples of the human voice in his music. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In time, Mr. Coleman reached beyond jazz into other musical forms as a one-man avant-garde. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The studio is in the National School of Dance here in Havana, part of the National Arts Schools, an avant-garde architectural project conceived not long after the 1959 Cuban Revolution but never completed. What Comes Next for Cuban Modern Dance? 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde hotel resembles a contemporary art gallery, with provocative pieces sprinkled around the public areas and guest rooms. What’s it like to film a TV travel show? I joined the crew of “Travels With Darley” to find out. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

He wants to bring experimental techniques — “the way they do in France” — to “The Farmer’s Daughters,” and worries Wayne with his commitment to the avant-garde. ‘X’ Review: Trash, Art and the Movies 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The experimental avant-garde writers, meanwhile, released literary form and content from the stranglehold of socialist realism. Mo Yan's Nobel prize in literature should help China overcome its Nobel complex 2012-10-11T15:40:18Z

Wubbels fuses the contemplative, obsessive space of early American Minimalism and the vibrant complexity of the post-World War II European avant-garde; transitions clearly indebted to legacies of jazz-informed improvisation act as soldering material. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

That was largely thanks to the avant-garde Fluxus movement of the 1960s and 1970s, whose output included staged “happenings” with audience participation. Busy doing nothing 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

From its founding in 1978, the performance space Roulette has served as a crucial home base for a vast, amorphous mass of activity that could collectively be lumped under the imprecise rubric of avant-garde music. Music Review: Roulette Opens in Brooklyn With Camilla Hoitenga - Review 2011-09-16T23:40:28Z

Thirty-some years into a career that began on the fringes of the downtown avant-garde scene, Ms. Anderson, 63, is more prolific than ever and, together with Mr. Reed, has ascended to New York art-world royalty. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z

A trailblazer in the avant-garde art scene but little known outside the country, the group takes center stage in the show “Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964” at the Museum of Modern Art. A Small Brazilian Photo Club That Reached for the Skyline 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The old stereo mixes can be heard as slapdash or as downright avant-garde. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Similarly vibrant paintings and lithographs dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter or Mary Lou Williams use geometric patterns and bright, acid color to pay homage to avant-garde and experimental black musicians. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a paradoxical film, one that’s also in the avant-garde of the tone of the times. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

A big problem for dealers who specialize in this period, Mr. Zarug said in an interview, is that the provenance of much Russian avant-garde art is “a black hole.” Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

This modernist American writer, who presided over one of the great avant-garde salons of all time in early 20th-century Paris, has rarely been anyone’s idea of light entertainment. ‘Reread Another’ Celebrates Gertrude Stein’s Babble 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

The trouble is, it's easy enough to write an avant-garde novel by making selections from the congealing buffet of approved avant-garde tropes – decay, topography, Heidegger, electricity pylons, the supposed debility of language, etc. My hero: Charlie Kaufman by Ned Beauman 2012-08-17T21:55:11Z

In 2000, Robert Sullivan wrote about “James Joyce,” O’Brien’s biography of the avant-garde writer, for the Book Review. Considering Edna O’Brien’s Portrait of James Joyce 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

You need a full day, or so proposes the avant-garde Belgian director and choreographer Jan Fabre. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

But he recently spent seven years working at his craft in Lithuania, a prime Eastern European center of avant-garde theater. Review: Budraitis solo show at On the Boards poses many questions but answers very few 2011-02-05T00:02:04Z

The label had signed Sonic Youth, respected pioneers of New York’s avant-garde rock scene, and a band whose trajectory and choices Cobain admired. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

He was eventually admitted to the Prague Conservatory to study opera and got his break when hired at the avant-garde Semafor theater in 1963. Karel Gott, 'the Czech Sinatra,' dies at 80 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

In Parenthesis is a difficult book to comprehend, but unlike some avant-garde works the challenge it presents never stops it from being compelling. The first world war's great novelist: David Jones 2011-02-04T13:58:23Z

An early exposure to avant-garde cinema helped me in this simply because by the time I started digging into Godard’s work, I already knew that movies didn’t necessarily have to be obvious. Godard Taught Me How to Watch Cinema, Even as He Kept Reinventing It 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

A wholesale transformation in avant-garde artistic understanding was unfolding nationally — and quickly. A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Another year and another several dozen opportunities blown: the American avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs was not anointed a “genius” by the MacArthur Foundation and given a big fat check. Critic?s Notebook: ?Views From the Avant-Garde? Film Series at Lincoln Center 2011-10-06T22:58:09Z

It was only with the arrival of Modernism in the 20th century that avant-garde architects and designers saw their beauty. The Sleek Curves That Reshaped Furniture Design 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Surrealism, born in modern Europe, got critically swept away with the rise of an American avant-garde after World War II. Its mass-culture associations were dismissed as low-class foreign kitsch. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Close grew up outside of New York and later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he began to experiment with building wild, avant-garde instruments. The Earth Harp turns an L.A. skyscraper into world's longest stringed instrument 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Scoop Slone, who became interested in Butoh while developing a Geisha-inspired drag character, said: “My searches into Japanese avant-garde led me to these dance performances with extremely odd and beautiful costumes.” Queer Butoh: Finding Belonging in the Dance of Darkness 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

It was a big, unlikely thing: avant-garde improvisers playing to an ancient film at a state-of-the-art venue in Midtown Manhattan, with no entry fee and a line out the door. William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

I met Mekas in the late 1980s after I started writing for The Voice about avant-garde cinema. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

That may be a more important vocation than hunting in vain for a single avant-garde in a world as large as ours. Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Now the Court has decided to weigh in on Warhol and avant-garde art. Was Andy Warhol's portrait of Prince copyright infringement? How this case could reshape IP law 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

One of the earliest sections is a homage to the Whitney Studio Club, an exhibition space the museum’s founder created in 1918 to show the work of the American avant-garde. The Whitney Museum, Soon to Open Its New Home, Searches for American Identity 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Introducing the concert, the cellist Lutz Rath said that the program would range from the “avant-garde to the deepest bourgeoisie in Paris.” Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z

The exhibition includes 30 progeny paintings by Russian avant-garde artists who studied the collection and produced similar work, or took steps beyond. A Bridge from Moscow to Paris: 130 Works of Modern Art 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

High-minded but plain-talking, she melds classical ballet with modern dance, avant-garde experiment with Broadway pizzazz, technical rigour with off-the-cuff attitude, uptown glamour with downtown grit; above all, art with commerce. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z

Yang has made work directly inspired by “The Triadic Ballet” in the past, and she said that one appealing aspect of Schlemmer’s avant-garde classic was that many details about it are missing. Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Interesting and unusual the show inarguably was, featuring the sort of over-the-top, avant-garde looks more associated with runway shows in Paris than New York. Disney villains provide inspiration at New York fashion show 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

In recent years, that kind of thing has become more commonplace on the avant-garde. At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Later, in his neo-expressionist period, he used serialism and avant-garde techniques to reflect indigenous South American traditions, as in his rarely heard “Cantata Para América Mágica,” for soprano and percussion orchestra. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z

On the Wire was one of the first shows in the UK to play electro, then hip-hop, house and techno music, while also championing experimental and avant-garde music of all genres. The cult radio kings of Blackburn 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

In turn, these artists perform headlining sets and bring their preferred avant-garde, rock and hip-hop acts along for the ride. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z

Both were shaped by their own life-changing encounter, three decades apart, with the Parisian avant-garde. Alexander Calder, MoMA’s Household God, Still Holds Sway 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

“We are choosing very carefully the artists with a lineage of the avant-garde,” he said. Warhol To Be On Exhibit In Florida At Dali Museum 2013-11-07T19:23:57Z

The Mail, as ever, took the reductio ad absurdum approach, focusing only on the most outre and avant-garde collections and ignoring everything else. Do men really care about fashion? 2013-01-12T18:00:01Z

Ms. Yakoshi, then an artist-curator at the Kitchen, a storied theater for avant-garde performance, arranged for Ms. Gill to be presented on a shared program. The Choreographer Beth Gill Takes Her Time, and Bends It 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

They are documents from a period when the impulse to wipe the slate clean and systematize all aspects of the composing process came to epitomize a brave new world of the avant-garde. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

And soon, the members of avant-garde Slovenian band Laibach will also be known for being the first foreign music act to publicly perform in North Korea. Laibach Will Be the First Foreign Band to Play North Korea 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

It was very avant-garde, very experimental, and at the same time, very fresh. Laurie Anderson’s Wall-to-Wall Summer 2013-06-14T22:30:44Z

With this unique and strangely bewitching work Mr. Greenspan, a quirky downtown actor and an avant-garde playwright, proves himself once again to be a theatrical conjurer of rare gifts. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z

I wouldn’t get the roles; the notes said I was too avant-garde or edgy. What I Wore: The Actress Jaime King - What I Wore, From Jan. 4 to 10 2012-01-12T21:59:15Z

Baraka’s transformation from Beat poet to nationalist to Third World socialist, Vangelisti writes, allowed him to enrich American letters by creating a greater range of African American poetic language and a politicized avant-garde. The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Toledo liked to say that she made “hand-me-downs”—clothes of uncertain provenance, at once traditional and avant-garde, which were proof against obsolescence. Remembering Isabel Toledo, a Designer with Few Peers 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

But he also demonstrated a magnificent eye for the finest of avant-garde painting. Albert Barnes and his pursuit of non-French art in Paris 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Apart from the familiarity, there is also something arrestingly avant-garde about Anne Boleyn. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z

What the new lord of the library says to Frank — “You’re so square, you’re practically avant-garde” — is true of the movie as well. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z

"A Permanent Image" is that species of playwriting frowned upon by the snootier factions of the avant-garde — the domestic drama. Character development counts in bringing plays to life onstage 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

He once published a book that mapped avant-garde Paris through objects left on a hotel table; he has also made a series of "pictures" by fixing the left-overs of meals to table tops. Unearthed ? artist Daniel Spoerri's banquet from 1983 2010-06-07T19:00:00Z

Stripped of her avant-garde artifice and fiery bras, Gaga becomes perhaps less interesting. Lady Gaga reveals new album release date 2011-01-04T10:21:37Z

Murray stepped onto the New York avant-garde scene in the mid-1970s, when he was just 20 years old but creatively almost fully formed. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Also on offer was Ewart’s piping, ecstatic approach to the sopranino saxophone, informed by bebop and the avant-garde alike. Review: A Contemporary Music Group’s Next Era Begins 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

At £6,000, it ranks among the more affordable pieces of avant-garde furniture in the Art and Design show. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z

Sarah took Etta to Matisse’s Paris studio in 1906, just as the artist was getting embroiled in an intense competition for leadership of Paris’s avant-garde with a young Spaniard named Pablo Picasso. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

She had a day job as a social worker attending to migrant women, was writing articles about cultural events, and hanging out with a group of avant-garde thinkers, artists, musicians and actors. Can She Revive the Largest Museum on the African Continent? 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z

He does not know that I belong to the avant-garde in art. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z

Orellana, 90, studied classical violin and composition in Guatemala, then embracing the avant-garde work of Arnold Schoenberg and electronic music in Buenos Aires during the 1960s. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Visiting the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn last month from his Northern California ranch, his beard was a cascade of wispy white waves that tumbled onto his red scarf like an avant-garde Gandalf. Terry Riley’s Avant-Garde Sounds Are Still Casting Spells 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Most jazz fans know Arts for Art for its annual Vision Festival, the banquet of avant-garde improvising that takes place downtown every spring. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The commercial theater scene stands out in Germany, where much stage work is done by government-funded institutions that often present avant-garde plays. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1970s Mr. Tyner continued to expand his ambitions as a composer, while his piano playing made more room for the influence of the avant-garde. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

These comically avant-garde early efforts were carried off with a pointedly un-fashion-y sense of presentation. Who Wore It Better: Art or Commerce? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Throughout her life Bouvier devoured French novels, watched French avant-garde films and followed French fashion. Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z

They were the most popular mainstream band in the world even as they embraced the counter-cultural, the experimental and the avant-garde. Get Back: The Beatles rocked the rooftop 50 years ago 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

But there he was last Thursday, paying homage to Rick Owens, the avant-garde designer from California, at the Fashion Group International’s Night of Stars gala. Kanye West Sings Another Designer’s Praises 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

"Mr. Nice" is an affable throwback to those guilt-free days when hippie drug dealers radiated the glamorous aura of avant-garde heroes risking prison to spread the doctrine of liberation through cannabis. 'Mr. Nice': Reliving a drug dealer's halcyon days 2011-09-01T19:14:07Z

“I was able to put my fingers in all these scores of the avant-garde,” he said at his studio, citing Webern, Berg, Haubenstock-Ramati and, of course, John Cage. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

He regarded drips and gestural brushstrokes as an avant-garde signature that could easily descend into empty cliché. Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91 2010-06-09T00:46:00Z

But these objects were all spawned from the mind of another woman, who was born - incredibly - in 1890: the avant-garde Elsa Schiaparelli. Shocking! Famed fashion house Schiaparelli revived 2012-10-18T16:47:09Z

“Megacities” features a kind of tribute to this avant-garde background, in the form of a Mumbai resident who screens spliced bits of Bollywood reels for children. A Look Inside the Films of Michael Glawogger 2012-04-13T17:45:00Z

Laying waste to pictorial "standards" and "norms" is what an avant-garde artist was supposed to do. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Additionally, the architect Frank Gehry, whose grandparents were from Lodz, is in talks to design a festival and congress center with an avant-garde, building-block shape. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

Upon joining the festival selection committee, I naïvely suggested distributing free tickets to avant-garde filmmakers and other needy types. A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, as Hayes herself notes, when Vaughan crossed over, she broadened the sonic palate of American audiences, introducing them to “everything new and modern” through her sophisticated, avant-garde singing. Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

On one level, Ligeti used these pieces to explore the nature of virtuosity, the avant-garde musical equivalent of Serena Williams’s slashing serves. A Guide to the NY Phil Biennial From Our Critics and Reporters 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

A conclave of young avant-garde improvisers will descend on this darkened basement in Ridgewood, Queens, for a night of free playing. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

In 2006, he started the Coil festival, which has helped make January in New York an international hub for avant-garde performance. A Changing of the Guard for Performance Space 122 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

But though the music lacks some of the obvious avant-garde touches of Greenwood’s past work, it’s still suffused with some of his signatures. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Rooted in ideas from the 1960s avant-garde and mounted in a downtown warehouse, it shows no signs of closing after nine months. Critic?s Notebook: Festivals: Under the Radar, Coil, Other Forces, American Realness 2012-01-03T23:36:36Z

The missiles come again and again in Kharkiv — the nucleus of the Ukrainian avant-garde in the early days of the Soviet Union. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Imagine a parallel story about the Met trying to catch up with the Philharmonic’s blockbuster offerings of avant-garde music theatre. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

“He had the most avant-garde atelier in Brazil,” she said. New Ways to Take a Seat at Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

As part of MoMA’s continuing Robert Rauschenberg’s exhibition, Bang on a Can will explore avant-garde composers related to that artist and more. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Overseeing this grandly infantile universe is Ms. Landau, who made her name as a boundary-testing director of the avant-garde. Review: ‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’ a Watery Wonderland on Broadway 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

On their first LP in three years, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey continue to mix avant-garde ideas with shimmering pop choruses. Wire ? Red Barked Tree: Exclusive album stream 2011-01-04T16:08:39Z

Though Earshot’s strong suit is the avant-garde, mainstream fans will note some familiar names. Here’s who to see — and why — at Earshot Jazz Festival 2019 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s a very interesting word, because for me, avant-garde means to rediscover the classics,” Wilson said. At 80, Robert Wilson Holds On to a Singular Vision for the Stage 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Vocalists are woefully underrated in the “avant-garde” or “free jazz” idiom, which tends to favor instrumental shredders in a not-so-subtly patriarchal way. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Scott Thomas initially envisaged a career in heavyweight theatre, or avant-garde French pictures. Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘For me, Brexit is a disaster – talk about not knowing where you belong’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Born in New Orleans, Christian was raised in what she called “avant-garde Catholicism.” Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

He played an invaluable role in the development of the entire postwar Japanese avant-garde scene. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

I’ve attended the festival for years, largely because of the variegated bounty of its offerings, from the commercial to the avant-garde. An Eerie, Thrilling Trip to the Toronto International Film Festival 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Just over a century ago, Montmartre hosted a perfect storm of artistic creativity and avant-garde thinking. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

There was a lot of the shock-of-the-new going on back then, and a lot of deference and homage to the history of the early ’60s New York avant-garde. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz and Royal Room Collective at the Stone 2013-05-22T21:46:01Z

By comparison, the small inventory of Mr. Brown felt avant-garde. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper: Rothmans Rebrands, Trying to Cater Younger 2012-03-20T22:18:55Z

Don Friedman, a versatile pianist who moved easily between the modern-jazz mainstream and the more volatile jazz avant-garde, died on June 30 at his home in the Bronx. Don Friedman, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

He hails from the indie/avant-garde music scene percolating around Montreal and Toronto in his native Canada, and has gone on to a difficult-to-pigeonhole career rooted in an ethos of staunch individualism. | Will Owen Pallett Win an Academy Award This Sunday? 2014-02-28T14:00:33Z

This piece was cheerily billed as an example of a supposedly burgeoning “Beijing avant-garde” — a claim that obviously raised the question of what counted as “avant-garde” in the Chinese capital. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Centre theater, denies wrongdoing. Prominent Russian theater director detained in embezzlement case 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Part of Ms. Mac Low’s intention for the event, as she states in program notes, is to recreate “a child’s-eye view of the 1970s New York ‘avant-garde’ arts world.” Dance Review: Clarinda Mac Low and Simone Forti Recall Judson Dance Era 2012-09-16T21:39:37Z

Philip Morris employees got discount tickets, and the exposure to avant-garde art was a way to inspire them to be more innovative. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Akomfrah's film checks off many artistic boxes, from the nonnarrative formalism of the cinematic avant-garde to the political engagement of postcolonial critique. 'The Nine Muses': Strange take on migrants' icy reception 2012-02-02T21:10:04Z

With the Stalinist purges moving at full throttle, Shostakovich backed away from some of his more avant-garde music, taking more care to adhere to the political line. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z

Bottura, who likes to call his food "a reinvention of the flavors of my youth interpreted through the avant-garde," thrives on keeping the palate guessing with dishes that confound expectations. The Jewel of Modena: Osteria Francescana 2010-08-26T08:35:00Z

But for the most part, the performance seemed to put a spotlight on only one version of Ms. Du: the inventive, outgoing, quirky indie pop diva with an avant-garde edge. Music Review: Du Yun at the 21st Century Schizoid Music Concerts 2010-06-29T20:58:00Z

Seeing them gathered together, as if assembled for some marvelously avant-garde party, is a rare opportunity to see a page of fashion history; don’t miss it. ‘Future Beauty’: High fashion as high art at SAM | Art review 2013-06-27T19:07:10Z

Beyond ivory ticklers, Earshot's 23rd edition showcases a rich variety of constituencies — women, very young players, locally connected musicians, world musicians and, as always, the Dutch avant-garde. Earshot has Keith Jarrett, other hot headliners 2011-10-13T18:30:06Z

Her men’s and women’s clothing, textiles and household objects are striking, avant-garde and forward-looking yet lovingly based on indigenous craft. Mexico City: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bley, who stretched the limits of the avant-garde with his innovative and continually changing musical styles, died Jan. 3 at his home in Stuart, Fla. He was 83. Paul Bley, innovative pianist in modern jazz, dies at 83 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

It was kind of the intersection of what I wanted to do as a youth — wild, crazy avant-garde theater — and traditional opera. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

There are those who are able to speak to the esoteric, the experimental and the avant-garde. Robin Givhan on Oscar de la Renta: With style, he wooed women of all stripes

Note to those who traffic in the avant-garde: concision is your friend. Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Picasso and Giacometti are avant-garde heroes to art historians; to the market they are big names, amplified by money as well as the media. Can Art Be 'Priceless' in Rocky Times? 2010-05-23T23:00:00Z

In between, she worked furiously and moved quickly from the Socialist Realism endorsed by the Polish government to the Pop-influenced New Realism of the Paris avant-garde. Art Review: Alina Szapocznikow’s Sculptures at MoMA 2012-10-11T21:47:25Z

To some, he’s “Einstein on the Beach,” the breakout avant-garde opera he created with director Robert Wilson in 1976. Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Working against him: Might his avant-garde tendencies still prove a little too much for some members of the academy? Who Will Be Nominated for Best Director? 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

In addition to the jewelry made for local sale, Ms. Slemmons designed more elaborate, avant-garde paper jewelry for exhibition and sale abroad. A Jewelry Maker Who Goes Far Beyond Metal 2012-12-06T16:07:04Z

His music also initially received a hostile welcome, deemed too expressive for the postwar avant-garde but too thorny for general consumption. Music Review: ?El Cimarr?n? Is Revived at the Theater at St. Catherine of Siena 2010-06-11T22:16:00Z

These rhapsodic yet tragic shots, accompanied by a recording of the avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, are the film’s most personal, spontaneous, original, and inspired elements. A Filmmaker Trying to Break Free from Instagram Modernity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde composer and musician who was the first artist interviewed on the show when it began back in 1982, said by telephone. WNYC Is Dropping ‘New Sounds’ After 37 Years. Musicians Are Mourning. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

By his own admission, his 2010 documentary “Generation Zero” was envisioned as an “avant-garde film for right-wingers.” “American Dharma” review: Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc is the most disturbing movie of th... 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

"People will recognize an aesthetic that is very close to the early productions of Wagner, and at the same time ground-breaking technology and ahead of the curve avant-garde vocabularies," he said. Met Opera shows high-tech effects for Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T18:22:00Z

In the first, Mr. Sciarrino, clearly inspired by Paganini’s dazzling violin caprices, writes an avant-garde equivalent, with whirlwinds of jagged, scratchy-toned arpeggios that flow into slinky, sliding tones, then erupt in staccato madness. Review: A Tiny Garage Explodes in Pianistic Madness 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The show, which ended Sept. 7, was the museum's first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the artist and spotlighted her performance pieces and other avant-garde creations.   For John Lennon's birthday, Yoko Ono will attempt a giant peace sign 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Separating himself from the avant-garde, he devoted himself to genres many of his colleagues regarded as outmoded: , song, the symphony. Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z

An exhibition last year collected chairs from avant-garde designers across Europe. | D?sseldorf, Germany 2012-05-11T16:18:27Z

Like most avant-garde Spanish chefs, he is fluent in the language of ultra-serious artspeak, describing his food as “harmony among space, tastes, smells and textures, distilling the essences of each product.” After El Bulli, Spain Looks Forward 2011-06-15T03:00:12Z

Mr. Kim is considered by many to be South Korea’s first avant-garde artist. A Founding Father of Korean Multimedia Comes to Maastricht 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Other programs at the Kitchen, the avant-garde performance and exhibition space in Chelsea, include more visual art, as well as music, dance and theater. The Kitchen Announces Spring Season 1462-03-28T05:00:00Z

But Reich was an unwitting guru, far removed from the avant-garde who eagerly consumed his ideas on both coasts; he lived a largely reclusive life in rural Maine, surrounding himself with a very few disciples. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z

It fits almost too well with Coe's fiction that this music is known for combining the avant-garde with the popular and catchy – the silly with the serious. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

“Free Radicals”: This documentary looks at the history of avant-garde cinema. ‘Remembering Dr. King,’ eagles, dragonboating | Weekend Preview 2013-01-16T22:46:36Z

“White on White” is a painting by the avant-garde Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, who died in 1935, and it is un-Googleable. In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Having roots in both popular music and the avant-garde, Morricone was an innovator, and he overcame each new challenge with a fresh approach, retaining a curiosity and childlike sense of wonder. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Davies was a major figure in the European avant-garde. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z

Some museum curators hid the works of the avant-garde. Pushing Forward an Abstract Art Drive That Began a Century Ago 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

He traveled to pre-Castro Cuba in the 1950s and returned determined to combine what he learned with what was happening in New York, creating a modern synthesis of the traditional and the avant-garde. Larry Harlow, a Salsa Revolutionary 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

The latter record, as the Burns’ documentary site notes, “was undoubtedly the single most important influence on avant-garde jazz in the ensuing decade.” Jazz Saxophonist Ornette Coleman Dies At 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, she began promoting avant-garde art professionally. Charlotte Moorman, Tradition Disrupter, Is the Focus of Two Shows 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

He is now a heavily relied-upon sideman on New York’s avant-garde jazz scene, because he can seemingly do anything with his horn, while keeping his heart on his sleeve. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

And from the very beginning, creative people of all types grasped the cinema as an artistic outlet that would transform traditional storytelling and popular culture while giving a new focus to the international avant-garde. Diving Into Movie Palaces of the Mind at the Whitney 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The Sackner material, grounded in the early 20th-century European avant-garde, brings together examples of modernist movements like Italian Futurism, Dada, Russian Constructivism and Surrealism. Art and Words Are Inseparable in the Sackner Collection 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Some of the so-called Biospherians had previously lived on a commune where they produced avant-garde plays. Reading ‘The Terranauts,’ by T.C. Boyle, is like being trapped in Tupperware 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

The Fahey film is being shown with “Approximately Nels Cline,” a short look at Mr. Cline, the guitarist and composer, as he creates some of his avant-garde work. Movie Review: ‘Guitar Innovators: John Fahey and Nels Cline,’ a Portrait 2013-08-15T22:10:15Z

At the core, it’s a trio record, featuring veteran players from different scenes, working together for the first time: the bassist Mark Helias, an avant-garde exemplar, and the drummer Bill Goodwin, a straight-ahead stalwart. New Music From the Mountain Goats, Joey Calderazzo, Becca Stevens Band and More 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

They were so incensed that they resigned and founded another journal, October, which remains an influential voice among old-guard supporters of the avant-garde. Review | Artist Lynda Benglis became controversial in an instant, but her career has thrived for decades 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Theater Project musicals included “The Cradle Will Rock,” by Marc Blizstein, which balanced the composer’s avant-garde training with a blue-collar sensibility, portraying the struggles of the unions against capital in Steeltown, USA. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z

Dr. Anderson once noted that all black composers were avant-garde because of their ostracism from the establishment. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

New York was avant-garde, L.A. was kitsch — critically discredited, culturally vanquished, doomed to second-class status. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The example set by Jeremy Bentham, the 18th-century English philosopher, might be considered truly avant-garde. What’s That? You Want to be Buried How? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Ballet, he added, “can be both much more traditional and more modern than opera. And when you slot that in with what the opera does, you can have an incredible arc between traditional and avant-garde.” Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Williams and the great avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor were mutual admirers until she organized a joint concert at Carnegie Hall in 1977. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

For more than five decades he has bought avant-garde 20th- and 21st-century art, comprising both iconic masterpieces and recondite curiosities. A Collector Follows His Nose Through the Maze of Modern Art 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

He was drawn to avant-garde beauty editorials of the 1980s, with images of Old Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe. Makeup and the Mask. It’s About the Eyes. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Time has a way of domesticating what once seemed radical and avant-garde. Patrick Dempsey's Frank Gehry–designed Malibu Estate 2014-02-04T05:00:00Z

While he reacted to the Old Masters he saw in the Prado, young Picasso also closely studied the avant-garde painters of his time. Art review: Of Picasso and Provenance 2010-06-11T12:00:00Z

“A Quiet Place” benefits from no longer being so directly juxtaposed with them; it is now easier to meet on its own terms, neither avant-garde nor as eager to please as Bernstein’s earlier works. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Rents went down as the hill went up, so younger, more avant-garde artists lived on the “butte,” the top of the hill. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

But even their straight-up renderings of thorny classics of the European avant-garde are as compulsively watchable as an episode of “American Ninja Warrior.” A New Season for Reshuffled, Mature String Quartets 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The little avant-garde gathering started brainstorming about wrapping just about anything functional in fur. Antiques: Meret Oppenheim’s Works at Martin-Gropius-Bau 2013-08-08T20:49:46Z

But if the actor’s grasp on the character is astonishing, the character’s grasp on the audience — as is too often the case with the avant-garde — is weak. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

This might be a brilliant movie way ahead of its time – the kind of avant-garde piece you'd expect to see in the festival's New Frontiers programme. Sundance film festival 2013: Upstream Color – first look review 2013-01-23T12:05:00Z

It was a creative breakthrough but also a doubling down, throwing her particle-based, detail-oriented style of avant-garde improvising into conversation with a wildly diverse group of collaborators. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Our whole generation of architects looked to the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century, which made such a powerful break to the past. We’re working within a tradition that we’re extending.” Hermitage Museum to Open a Contemporary Outpost in Moscow 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Is it because their works are unique, making them prized possessions, or because they were avant-garde innovators, not to say geniuses? Can Art Be 'Priceless' in Rocky Times? 2010-05-23T23:00:00Z

In other words, the theft from the Kunsthal exhibition on avant-garde art was more "smash and grab" than "Ocean's 11." Dutch police investigating art heist probe tips 2012-10-17T18:31:04Z

In between each song, Curtis inserts a short interview segment, the most interesting of which are chats with the avant-garde choreographers Byrne commissioned to put together dance sequences for the stage show. Ride, Rise, Roar ? review 2011-01-13T22:17:01Z

The movie also draws a parallel between its own avant-garde style and Mr. Cabral’s teaching methods. Review: ‘Spell Reel’ Shows a Revolution Filmed, on the Leader’s Orders 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Abercrombie played with a handful of rising musicians inhabiting the divide between avant-garde improvisation, jazz tradition and hard rock. John Abercrombie, Lyrical Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 72 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Bernardo Rondeau, the academy's director of programming, said Castle's films bordered on the avant-garde. Director William Castle, king of the gimmick, gets a retrospective 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Gallery-Goers’ project also used photographs, in this case to document who was visiting a prominent New York gallery that specialized in avant-garde art. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Belkin Art Gallery showcases contemporary art, with an especially strong collection of Canadian avant-garde works of the 1960s and ’70s. In Vancouver, discover University of British Columbia’s delightful attractions 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

If it were an avant-garde film, “Top of the Heap” would be considered a psychodrama, with the artist turning the camera on himself. ‘Top of the Heap’: Is It Blaxploitation? Avant-Garde? Afrofuturism? All Three. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

It is hard to see this as Stalinism or even something more avant-garde, like Dadaism. Living With Freaky Furniture 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Baker looked for an innovative - but ultimately unsuccessful - way to counterbalance it, hiring the high-profile, avant-garde Mortier to replace the outgoing general manager, Paul Kellogg. Board of troubled NYC Opera meets to talk future 2011-05-19T16:51:18Z

This is not perhaps the most daring or avant-garde comedy on television, but there is nothing shameful about “Hot in Cleveland.” | 'Hot in Cleveland': Valerie Bertinelli and Friends Meet Betty White 2010-06-15T22:49:00Z

Certainly, it is relevant that he came of age at a time when Abstract Expressionism, the house style of the New York avant-garde, was running out of steam. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Perhaps to balance that avant-garde nature, Mr. Colangelo also showed some commercial clothes in terra cotta, emerald green and gray. Special Report: Fashion: Burning Through Inspiration 2011-02-27T17:02:07Z

Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Centre theater, denies wrongdoing. Prominent Russian theater director detained in embezzlement case 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Many of her artistic innovations now celebrated, such as her proto-Conceptualist use of instructions and scores, have roots in the musical avant-garde of New York and Tokyo. Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

In certain episodes, he sounded like an avant-garde jazz clarinetist, all reedy lines, rude bleats and banshee shrieks. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Behind the show is Nature Theater of Oklahoma, an influential American avant-garde theater collective that was founded in New York in 2006 and has become increasingly prominent on European stages in the past decade. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Literary critics have described his work as avant-garde, but Mr. Handke has dismissed that label, branding himself a “conservative classical writer.” Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

And also metaphorically, by organizing festivals and producing albums for Columbia Records’ influential avant-garde series. Celebrating a Union That Rewired Classical Music 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Few other avant-garde filmmakers borrowed so liberally or so subversively from popular iconography. Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

The rapper Drake is part of an effort to restore Luna Park, an avant-garde amusement park with works by Basquiat, Dalí and Haring. Late Night Reacts to Nancy Pelosi’s Big Announcement 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s in the avant-garde where certain dispositions are held steady and explored in depth, and that’s where this record lives. FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde has a way of becoming old hat every quarter-century or so, as history sifts the culture to see what’s worth keeping. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The history of the arts in Paris is one of Right Bank orthodoxy versus Left Bank experimentation, of academy versus avant-garde. Dance Review: The Paris Opera Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2012-07-12T21:49:08Z

And on Monday, Prototype, a festival of avant-garde opera and musical theater, largely spiked its 10th anniversary celebration that was meant to open on Jan. 7. Coronavirus Is Surging. Avant-Garde Arts Festivals Are Closing. 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

In the luxury hotels of New York, on the other hand, the avant-garde of twentieth-century hotel culture, conditions had changed, as the construction of the Ritz Towers shows. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z

He was inspired, the book says, not only by the museum’s Edward Weston and Farm Security Administration photography, but also by its European avant-garde painting and sculpture. After a Storied Career, a Nonagenarian Photographer Returns to New York 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Followers of the popular, as opposed to avant-garde, theater would most recall Mr. Marowitz from his criticism. Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z

A flourishing New York School had fully replaced the shattered School of Paris as champion of avant-garde principles. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

She often spoke of her work in the lingua franca of the Latin Quarter avant-garde, where she knew the great intellectuals of her day, including Samuel Beckett. Andrée Putman, Global Interior Designer, Dies at 87 2013-01-21T03:48:51Z

Only the parody avant-garde numbers — cautionary examples of what not to do on Broadway — and the re-creation of the immortal “Triplets” routine demonstrate much wit. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

This was the first big break for a composer who had gone from being a provincial organist in Finland in her youth to a cosmopolitan avant-garde composer with extraordinary new notions about sound and harmony. A brilliant start to Esa-Pekka Salonen's L.A. Phil residency 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

A much-publicized exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in May, featuring Schiaparelli's dresses alongside modern Prada ones, introduced her melodic name to whole a new generation, but showed how avant-garde her designs remain. Shocking! Famed fashion house Schiaparelli revived 2012-10-18T16:47:09Z

His ideas have strongly influenced avant-garde composers and have filtered into punk, techno and heavy metal. A ‘House’ Finds a New Home 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Swiss mime clowns, French puppet companies, avant-garde mixed-media artists, all a walk away. A life in theatre: Michael Boyd 2012-11-16T12:43:29Z

Suddenly, New Orleans was at the center of avant-garde art. Prospect New Orleans saves room for city’s homegrown artists

Known as the home of DIA Beacon, the avant-garde art museum on the banks of the Hudson, Beacon is a former manufacturing center with a long-struggling main street. Hotel Review: The Roundhouse at Beacon Falls in Beacon, N.Y. 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

But when jazz grew too radical for commerce, the avant-garde was booted from the clubs, and up sprang a loft scene. Where Jazz Lives Now 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

In total, this trajectory shows an artist becoming much more of a sculptor or form maker, veering between the found and invented in new ways that imply that the avant-garde might still exist. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Esther, an art student who was never quite avant-garde enough for her fellow art students, answers Lady’s ad for a nanny and announces that she’d like to be called “S.” The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Nightcaps may be had at Elsa’s Bar, named for the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, whose avant-garde creations were worn by Frances Farquharson, a fashion editor who married a Scottish laird and lived nearby. 5 Cozy Hotels Where Winter Is a Treat 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

Influenced by more avant-garde groups, this band has furthered its evolution into electronic pop, without sounding too meandering. Pop & Rock Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

In recent years, this 79-year-old drummer and avant-garde luminary has become a frequent presence at the Vanguard. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

This 1993 specimen of the classic avant-garde — if that isn’t a paradox — consists of an intense, disturbing and mostly impenetrable 45-minute monologue delivered at breakneck speed by a character bent on suicide. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

In “Memphis,” the newly issued fourth chapter of the series, Roberts stitches together elements of roots music, free jazz, and avant-garde assemblage to invoke an ancestor whose father was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Raúl Esparza, “Seared,” and Yvonne Rainer 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

But any avant-garde touches are mostly incorporated into traditional structures and sound worlds. Jennifer Higdon Basks In Her Music Pulitzer 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z

Revolution – New Art for a New World This fascinating new documentary by Margy Kinmonth remembers the avant-garde art movement that thrived in the early years of the revolution. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

It may have been the most ostentatious expression of the New York avant-garde until the sensation of “Einstein on the Beach” at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976. A Case for the Greatness of Florine Stettheimer 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

She remains avant-garde and acerbic, and now performs often in a career retrospective project with Weasel Walter, Bob Bert and Tim Dahl. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Along with his Kate Bush project, Mr. Bleckmann is preparing to record a pair of Bach cantatas with a Spanish Baroque ensemble, and a songwriting collaboration with an Icelandic avant-garde jazz guitarist. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z

That criticism aside, Ms. Williams has been doggedly doing what she does for almost three decades, and remains at the vanguard of avant-garde American writing. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

In 1971, with film schools and an avant-garde movement newly interested in Chaplin’s movies, Chaplin and his business advisers decided to reclaim the American audience by making his films widely available again. Mo Rothman, 92, Entrepreneur Close to Charlie Chaplin, Dies at 92 2011-09-29T00:16:13Z

If we weren't doing shows, we imagined them – big shows, little shows, our shows and other people's shows, avant-garde, outrageous and aiming high. Jack Birkett obituary 2010-05-28T15:44:00Z

On “Reaching Fourth,” Mr. Tyner joins up with the drummer Roy Haynes, a veteran of Powell’s ensembles, and the young bassist Henry Grimes, who was on his way to a prominent career in the avant-garde. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t consider the play avant-garde,” he told the newspaper. Jeff Weiss, an Unconventional Theatrical Force, Dies at 82 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

But family and social connections helped, and avant-garde movements opened doors. Art to See This Fall 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s the eternal struggle between hyper-energetic youth and sclerotic old age, or, to put it in terms of modern art history, between the insurgent avant-garde and the recalcitrant establishment. Takeshi Murata: ‘OM Rider’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Disease, dying and death are the opposite of avant-garde; they’re old news. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

“When you say ‘French music’ you think of the avant-garde,” she said. A Violinist Questions the Musical Divide Between West and East 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Ms. Summers was a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, the loose-knit avant-garde company active in New York in the 1960s. Elaine Summers, Who Meshed Dance and Film, Dies at 89 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Isozaki positioned himself as a member of an avant-garde that practiced outside architectural convention. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Downtown, the most daring example of avant-garde cooking this side of the Atlantic is yours, starting at $250 a head. The search for America’s best food cities: Washington, D.C. 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

But that’s what I experienced recently when I traveled between the four operas of the “Ring” at the festival and the Darmstadt Summer Course, a hotbed of avant-garde works since 1946. At Darmstadt, the Avant-Garde Rivals Wagner’s ‘Ring’ 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z

He rejected politics and now referred to the "self-regulating" sexual utopia of his imagination as "work-democracy", which many of his fans among America's avant-garde identified with eroticised anarchy. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z

Mr. Atxa, 37, is known for his avant-garde techniques; he uses cutting-edge technologies in his restaurant, which is heated and cooled with geothermal energy, and recycles rainwater. Momofuku Milk Bar Pops Up 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The Hammer Museum’s PST: LA/LA show “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985” is a “sweeping overview” of work by avant-garde women artists who were in some way employing the body as subject and canvas. Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Though the experiment is carried out in a complex format — one that blurs satire and minstrelsy and comedy and drama — this is not some avant-garde nonsense producing microscopic results. Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Kelley said he sketched street scenes and a temple visit — “nothing outlandish or avant-garde,” he said. A King Who Actually Likes the Arts 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

In Mexico he outraged the authorities with an avant-garde theatre group. Alejandro Jodorowsky: 'I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul' 2013-05-23T15:47:54Z

Ms. Lenk also names the avant-garde director Robert Wilson as someone she would want to work with. Katrina Lenk Can Quietly Break Your Heart 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Kharkiv, even more than Kyiv, had been the crucible of the Ukrainian avant-garde in the first years of the Soviet Union. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Blue Note was, and is, also a business, and Lion and Wolff needed to sell records; not all the music was a part of the avant-garde. A Blue Note Founder’s View of Jazz Music’s Private Side 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

And “Body and Matter,” opening January 29 at Dominique Lévy, will place 23 important abstract paintings by Shiraga in conversation with more than a dozen 1990s works by Satoru Hoshino, an avant-garde postwar Japanese ceramicist. Three gallery shows spotlight Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Mainstone describes her work as “avant-garde theatre with this strange digital thing going on,” and it combines fashion, in which she was trained at Central Saint Martins, with technology and the conceptual-art-style “happening.” Turning Bridges Into Music 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

I’m curious about how you see the manifesto in the 21st century and how you connect it to the historic and near avant-garde. | YSL Manifesto 2011-02-28T19:30:33Z

Culled from the museum’s permanent collection, they are dusty artifacts of a time when traditional possibilities seemed exhausted, and avant-garde artists became preoccupied by theory, performance and new technologies. Art Review: ?Off the Wall: Part 1,? Performance Art at Whitney 2010-07-29T20:08:00Z

He’s met the who’s who of the postwar avant-garde and formed his own opinions. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Drawing on narrative traditions, from popular melodramas to avant-garde theater, Mr. Ruiz, best known in America for his 1999 adaptation of Proust’s “Time Regained,” turns “Mysteries of Lisbon” into yet another search for lost time. | 'Mysteries of Lisbon': A Portuguese Tale of Time, the Revealer 2011-08-04T22:17:21Z

But in recent years, Patterson + Reckinger have turned their attention to live classical and avant-garde music — creating, often in collaboration with other artists and animators, wild visual sequences that accompany musicians on stage. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger turn animation into a wild sensory art installation 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Somehow he found time to work as a critically acclaimed director, after founding London’s avant-garde Almeida Theater. Pierre Audi Is Set to Become Artistic Director of Park Avenue Armory 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The vast, hard-hitting First Violin Concerto, written in 1977 while his father was dying, was the work that marked his return to more conservative modes of composition after his period as an avant-garde tearaway. Penderecki: Violin Concerto No 1; Horn?Concerto Winterreise 2010-08-12T22:00:00Z

Almost 500 pages long, it shows him to be a lifelong connector of artists from across the avant-garde, from the esteemed to the unknown. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Denning’s was a style so basic that it amounted to the avant-garde. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Memphis’s kitsch, colorful furniture was a populist representation of the postmodernist theories that had dominated avant-garde discourse in architecture and design for over a decade. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z

The auberge features accommodation in rustic-chic cabins and avant-garde cuisine inspired by the region's plains and marshes. French Chefs' Distant Retreats 2011-08-18T14:20:00Z

So, the Fiery Furnaces had more of an expansive, avant-garde sound than your first solo record, is that fair to say? Eleanor Friedberger on leaving Brooklyn, approaching 40 and why she’d be happy to sell out: “I don’t think that attitude really exists anymore” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Onstage, he perches behind a piano, performing a head-banging, oddly cathartic blend of classical, heavy metal and avant-garde riffs. Pop Picks for New Year’s Eve in New York 2013-12-26T23:11:43Z

“So Much for That Winter” may be avant-garde, but it also deals in the fundamentals of being human. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, the 21-year-old pop star debuted her newest artistic venture: an art collection, aptly titled “Dirty Hippie,” as a part of avant-garde designer Jeremy Scott’s New York Fashion Week Show. Miley Cyrus Is Now a Visual Artist, Too 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Lights directed at the strands cause them to undulate; via camera and computer, these movements are translated into sounds that resemble avant-garde music. Tomás Saraceno: Following the Airborne Lives of Spiders 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

The method is so strange that it veers toward the unintentional avant-garde. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Ligeti resettled in Vienna and became associated at first with the postwar avant-garde in western Europe. When Mahler meets Ligeti: Seattle Symphony to close the season on a powerful note 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

To stage those values, as well as amp up the fantasy, they called in Robert Wilson — Bob, to cognoscenti — the avant-garde theater director, who is a master of the surreal and the inexplicable. An Avant-Garde Director Sets the Stage for Hermès 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

On the gallery’s Web site is a remembrance by Mr. Miller, who sees in Mr. Kelley’s work “an inclusiveness that turns the habitual avant-garde/kitsch distinction inside out.” Art In Review: JOHN MILLER: ?Suburban Past Time? 2012-02-16T22:48:16Z

Start with experimental and avant-garde, then throw in underground, independent, punk rock, do-it-yourself and Asian-American, all of which he suggested during a telephone interview from his home in Santa Fe. Films of Jon Moritsugu, Upending Stereotypes With a Wig and a Sneer 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

A smaller, simpler trove resides at UbuWeb, an avant-garde gold mine spanning many disciplines. Movement That Streams 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

They found an entire world teeming to express their feelings on the avant-garde technology. Unnatural Selection: the eye-opening Netflix docuseries on gene editing 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

In Munich, Public Art Designed to Get People Talking Munich, a traditional German city with its picture-perfect beer gardens and grand, historic squares, is not big on avant-garde art happenings. In Transit Blog: In Munich, Public Art Designed to Get People Talking 2013-06-13T15:43:15Z

Watching Devin Welch murder Keith Richards' combination rhythm-and-lead style, it hit me that Welch's usual gnarly avant-garde technique is abstract Picasso, but he's also early realistic Picasso, master of the fundamentals. Tips from "The Rolling Stones" -- Seattle's premier Rolling Stones cover band, playing Capitol Hill Block Party July 22 2011-06-13T17:53:15Z

Johnson had no illusions about a life in the avant-garde nether regions of fashion. Betsey Johnson has never run with the fashion elite. That’s why she’s endured. 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Duchamp fled Paris and the First World War in 1915, and quickly established himself at the heart of the New York avant-garde. Reimagining Art, One Threesome at a Time 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

That the staging and her performance are not quite transcendental doesn’t mean lovers of the avant-garde won’t enjoy the production. Scena Theater’s staging of Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ is pleasant but needs more flavor

Arranged chronologically in seven sections, the show traces the changes in Degas’s styles over almost 50 years, from the late 19th century to the early 20th  century, when the avant-garde movement was evolving. In Transit Blog: In Paris, Degas and the Nude 2012-04-03T18:21:31Z

I’ve not usually been a fan of the avant-garde, which too often strikes me as intellectualized and chilly, fogged in a machismo musk. Review: Building a Better Girl in ‘Honestly Sincere’ 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Roulette, which was established in 1978, is primarily known for avant-garde music. Sally Silvers?s ?Prize Every Time? at Roulette in Brooklyn 2011-10-09T04:00:16Z

A vibrant ethnic melting pot, Marseille is also home to an increasing number of contemporary art and avant-garde performances. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z

In the early 1960s, he co-founded what eventually became Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest repositories of avant-garde film. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Simons’ journey started with 18th-century dresses fit for an avant-garde Marie Antoinette. Theron, Penn dazzle Dior as fashion gets political 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Next month sees the release of her first solo album since 1996: a collection of free-, avant-garde covers. Neneh Cherry: 'Jazz can be the way you make love' 2012-05-22T18:30:01Z

She loved combining type and images and had an affection for 20th-century avant-garde typography. Elaine Lustig Cohen, Designer Who Left Her Mark Everywhere, Dies at 89 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

You take the Eurostar to the avant-garde and you end up shopping. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

His reliance on methodology changed music not only as an example for the post-World War II avant-garde but also for the Minimalist rebellion to it. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

She found one in Robert Erickson, a prominent composer, who as the music director of KPFA-FM, a Berkeley radio station, introduced Bay Area listeners to the latest trends in European avant-garde composition. Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

George Lewis, the legendary avant-garde jazz trombonist and tireless electronics innovator and educator, recently caught one of Gay’s shows. Blues, jazz, electronica. It all flows through Ben LaMar Gay. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Either way, it’s an accessible pleasure from the wild world of the avant-garde. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Though he steered clear of the avant-garde salons of Berlin, he kept in touch with Dutch, French, Russian and American artists by post. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z

Amid the flurry of new operas recently, including the avant-garde Louis Andriessen spectacle across the street at Walt Disney Concert Hall last week, “Bohème” serves as a kind of comfort food. L.A. Opera delivers some Parisian déjà vu in 'La Bohème' 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The fledgling curator's only criteria: "A little avant-garde, something never seen before but not too difficult." WTF: Bangkok's Hip New Gallery Space 2011-05-19T13:00:00Z

“The Big Bang” includes obvious parallels to the avant-garde work of Mr. Lynch, the force behind “Twin Peaks.” A Director Is Born With ?The Big Bang? 2011-05-11T22:03:05Z

Created and hosted by the theater producer Ellis Haizlip, and produced by a Black women–led crew, “Soul!” mixed high and low culture with an avant-garde eclecticism. ‘Mr. Soul!’ Review: Televising the Revolution, With Great Songs 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

In 1941, Ms. Sterne narrowly escaped a roundup and massacre of Jews at her apartment building and fled Bucharest for New York, where she immediately fell in with the artistic avant-garde. Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100 2011-04-12T02:27:12Z

Invention didn’t cease, but in the 1950s new instruments, and particularly electronic ones, were the purview of the avant-garde and of commercial music. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

It may seem surprising that a milestone of the American avant-garde cinema was made a few minutes from the Chateau Marmont, that favorite movie-star haunt. Avant-Garde Cinema Ran Parallel to Hollywood 2011-11-04T20:56:20Z

One of the quietest — and the one that most rewards careful listening — features the saxophonist and avant-garde eminence Roscoe Mitchell. For Jazz Musicians in 2021, Two Was the Magic Number 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The score was a major musical and theatrical step for Glass toward adapting Minimalism for opera conventions, but he was still thought too avant-garde for American companies. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

The exhibition spanned a wide variety of media such as traditional acrylic paintings or photography to more avant-garde materials such as cardboard or metal street signs. Barter system part of appeal for Brussels art show 2012-01-31T16:50:11Z

Among his teachers was Albino Galvano, a distinguished artist interested in psychoanalysis, who introduced him to the avant-garde culture of Turin. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z

A writer, filmmaker, champion of the avant-garde and a founder of Anthology Film Archives, Mekas died at 96 in 2019; he would have turned 100 this year. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

She teaches at Mills College, a women’s institution across the bay in Oakland with a decades-long tradition of fostering avant-garde music. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z

“She is allied with the idea of fashion as linked, not necessarily with the avant-garde, but with the beginning of new dress trends.” It’s Always Fishnets Season Somewhere 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

From tiny to monumental, Art and Design projects a view of today’s aesthetic environment — as approved by the avant-garde establishment. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z

These performers are friendly experimentalists, eager to demystify their avant-garde antics by making spectators privy to the process of creation. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Indeed after Ms. Blow’s death four years ago, the fashion industry was left with only one high-profile devotee of avant-garde hats, Anna Piaggi. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z

In the 1920s, along with Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and his chief rival, Edward Steichen, Outerbridge was among the most acclaimed of avant-garde photographers. Always Something Unnerving in Paul Outerbridge Photographs 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her gardens seem neither avant-garde nor traditional in the English sense of color-schemed borders or impossibly rich medleys of herbaceous plants. Perspective | The low-key, high-style approach to crafting gardens for the stars 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The avant-garde is much more likely to be found in Hamra. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

Morrison’s background in the avant-garde lends adds a hazy “old, weird” patina to the forgotten, abandoned archive, told in large part with images from the materials themselves. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

The exhibition's subtitle sheds some light: the artistic Jewish avant-garde in Romania, 1918‑1938, and the show deals brilliantly with issues that are usually avoided. From Dada to surrealism - review 2011-07-19T12:59:02Z

He likes working in traditional genres that he bends to his own purposes while drawing on a range of cinematic traditions: classical Hollywood, the European art film, the avant-garde. ‘Afire’ Review: His Flaws Are Petty, Pathetic and Funny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

Judged at face value, Banderas and Griffith make for an unlikely union: the earthy Spaniard with the avant-garde pedigree and the hyper-real, surgically enhanced daughter of Beverly Hills privilege. Antonio Banderas: Almod?var and me 2011-07-29T21:59:00Z

In Paris, he fell in with avant-garde artists who favored Courbet-inspired realism and a brand-new style, Impressionism. Francisco Oller Exhibition Explores Impressionism and the Caribbean 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

He was also buying art and becoming a presence in avant-garde circles. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z

That’s Takashi, who presents a face of stoic obedience while furtively creating avant-garde pieces of sushi that are, to judge by the expressions of those who taste them, transcendentally delicious. All dressed up, but this 'fish story' goes nowhere 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The Vision Festival, New York’s annual gathering of the improvising avant-garde, is a locus for some of the country’s most unbounded musicians. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The club’s calendar for that month, which includes a “Farewell to the Stone” celebration, was singled out on Monday in the Twitter feed of Destination: Out, a two-person team of advocates for avant-garde jazz. The Stone (Apparently) Announces Its End Date 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

The Austrian feminist avant-garde artist Renate Bertlmann — who has been using latex to make provocative performances, photos and sculptures since the 1970s — was probably the most startling of these. Brussels Art Week Expands at a Tricky Time 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

When the poem appeared in chapbook form two years later, it placed Eliot at the forefront of poetry’s avant-garde. How T.S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

It was the middle in a trio of accompaniments to short works by women filmmakers central to the avant-garde tradition. Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

A distinct and idiosyncratic figure in American cinema, Ms. Menkes, who declined to give her age, has also remained somewhat overlooked, an outsider both on the indie film scene and in avant-garde circles. Retrospectives of the Filmmaker Nina Menkes 2012-02-19T03:37:17Z

He spent three years adapting “The Fly” into an avant-garde opera, which premiered in 2008. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

There is also Karen Finley, whose avant-garde explorations of sexual violence put her in the middle of the federal arts-financing wars two decades ago. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

But what about a live performance of "Revolution 9," the Beatles' furthest excursion into the avant-garde? Alarm Will Sound, experimenting in all directions 2012-04-19T20:27:03Z

Also on the bill is the expert avant-garde bassist Michael Formanek, leading a quartet. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

He found them among the trailblazers of the European avant-garde. Review | André Gregory’s ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ is a free-form monologue about his quest for meaning in life and art 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Nothing even remotely comparable was ever attempted in New York, his temporary adopted hometown, although Mr. Snow’s impact on New York’s avant-garde was considerable. Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

The recipes themselves split the difference between avant-garde and heirloom. The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks: Radical Ideas, Classic Treats 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

In the first movement the tension between tradition and the avant-garde seems to play out explicitly in the solemn, regular chords in the pianist’s left hand and the bursts of energy in the right. Music Review: Olga Vinokur in Recital at Bargemusic 2013-01-04T22:37:50Z

Bowie was one of the most celebrated musicians of modern times and for many years a figurehead of pop’s avant-garde. David Bowie, Legendary Pop Artist, Dead At 69 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Stranger still, for a business that tends to the conservative, its most high-profile projects have been devoted to contemporary and avant-garde work. Brookfield Office Properties’ Free Arts Programs 2012-09-30T18:47:54Z

As a young man in the 1970s, Mr. Rihm was associated with the Darmstadt summer courses in Germany, which became the ideological proving ground for composers of the European avant-garde. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z

For the Walker, known for its interdisciplinary collaboration, avant-garde first commissions and award-winning publications, any level of disdain is rare. Walker Art Center’s Reckoning With ‘Scaffold’ Isn’t Over Yet 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The very term avant-garde implies an anticipation of society’s will: the artist as advance guard, foreseeing trends or events to come. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

There is, of course, a far older tradition of beautiful and inspiring political poster art; but there is no point here in raking over the history of the Soviet avant-garde, or of Aleksander Rodchenko's photomontages. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z

It served as an avant-garde hub through the end of the decade, anchoring what would be known as the loft scene. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z

He no more endeared himself to the New York avant-garde of the ’60s than he had to the French avant-garde of the ’20s. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The history of jazz’s post-1960s avant-garde has been a tactile experience for him. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z

If this all makes “You Will Get Sick” sound avant-garde and difficult, that’s part of the problem Diaz is addressing. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

While on the run, Caravaggio was still the most popular avant-garde painter of the time, and his work was welcomed wherever he went. Caravaggio the criminal: How a life on the lam changed the Baroque painter's art 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

The jazz bassist Mark Dresser has a long and serious track record in the avant-garde, with special distinction in the area of extended technique: harmonics, multiphonics, various other nonstandard expressive modes. The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

For me, though, I’ve always looked to Cecil Taylor as the foremost purveyor of the avant-garde, his rolling piano chords tucked between tidal waves of unrelenting drums and saxophone. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Yet his music was also a favorite of the avant-garde. Baltimore Honors Late Rocker Frank Zappa With Bust 2010-09-19T22:29:00Z

The 73-year-old architect and designer, a former member of the avant-garde Studio Alchimia, dreamed up an exhibition featuring pieces she created or collected over the past five decades, including rare prototypes and artisanal antiques. Take My Indian Aluminum Spoons. Please! 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

But Renaud is continuously dissatisfied with Monk’s answers to his questions: about not being understood by French audiences in the 1950s, about his wife Nellie’s role in his life, about being avant-garde. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

It seems that though a substantial amount of De Keermaeker's movement was transposed into "Countdown," it was also transformed – from a white, elite avant-garde setting to a Black pop culture setting. There’s a long history of dances being pilfered for profit — and TikTok is the latest battleground 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

Michael Snow, best known for avant-garde art films like the trippy “Wavelength” from 1967, is a canny player with basic elements of photography. | Art: Before and After, Paris in the 1800s 2014-01-24T19:14:13Z

A century or so ago, Paris was the undisputed epicenter of the international art world, the birthplace of the avant-garde. Paris Cultivates a New Allure 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

They made the wild, crazy sounds that avant-garde improvisers have long been making. Dog Star Orchestra joyfully ventures out of bounds 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Another palpable influence was Henri Rousseau, whose quirky “primitive” paintings attracted a wide range of admirers among the avant-garde in Paris and beyond. Christopher Wood’s Brief Life, Richly Expressed 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The avant-garde American composer behind “4’33”,” that conceptual work of complete silence, was fascinated with mushroom foraging. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Computers to Mushrooms 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Hopps had a deep grounding in avant-garde art of the early 20th century; he connected it with gusto to the incendiary work exploding across America in the century’s second half. Gonzo museum director Walter Hopps paints his colorful life in art 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

In recent years, Cale has become a generous collaborator with younger artists, and a kind of living conduit to avant-garde history and wisdom. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

The film is true to the avant-garde passions that it embodies and reflects. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

In the early 1960s, the authorities relaxed their cultural policies somewhat, and avant-garde art was no longer seen as overtly political. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Avant-Garde Time Capsule in Polish Apartment 2010-11-16T08:30:00Z

On my second tour through the racks, the unfinished details began to look less avant-garde than short-cutty. | Lanvin: At Lanvin, Pricey Designs for Society?s Decline 2010-08-10T20:57:00Z

Also, my favorite contemporary artist is the avant-garde musical genius Kanye West. Do not even think about putting chocolate in pecan pie 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

But his conducting career took off when Mr. Boulez invited him to lead the newly founded Ensemble Intercontemporain, a hothouse of avant-garde creativity. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

For over a decade, the Stone served as a ballast for the avant-garde on the Lower East Side. The Decade in Jazz: 10 Definitive Moments 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

She met Biesenbach when he was “working in Europe, in a very heavy way,” she said of his early commitment to avant-garde performance. Yoko Goes Solo 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

He was an avant-garde filmmaker on the side, with a deep knowledge of expressionism and film noir, whose shadows, angles and distortions he introduced into his paintings. Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84 2011-04-20T10:41:52Z

Chavarria isn’t out to transform a pair of trousers into an avant-garde art project. ‘To show them in a kind of glory’: How a high-end designer celebrates working-men chic 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Davis and Ms. Laubrock are two subtle provocateurs whose respective roles in New York’s avant-garde music community continue to grow. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Destruction has long been a calling card of avant-garde art. Perspective | How Banksy’s latest stunt plays into the history of destruction in avant-garde art 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

He worked with the producer Bill Laswell on funk, jazz, African and avant-garde music, and with the bassist and songwriter Jack Bruce of Cream. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

After all, there is a fine line between “avant-garde” and “hot mess.” On the Runway Blog: Project Runway Season 9: Avant-Garde or Hot Mess? 2011-09-02T16:54:54Z

Next month, a collection of Boulez recordings from the 1950s with his Parisian new music ensemble Domaine Musical will chronicle his early avant-garde approach. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

In the 20 years since, Lynch has made just two more major projects for the screen: Inland Empire, an avant-garde sprawl shot on scuzzy digital video, and the return of Twin Peaks. Over the hills: Quentin Tarantino and the end of Hollywood as we know it 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

When he’s not performing as Jack Tucker, he puts everything he has learned into “Stamptown,” a variety show he hosts that brings fringe theater, avant-garde performers and comedy acts to cities around the world. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Beard stubble and hairy arms are totally acceptable. The scene is reminiscent of the East Village’s avant-garde drag scene in the 1980s.” At Bushwig, Pushing the Boundaries of Drag 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

There’s also a new liveliness, including avant-garde art spaces and fledgling concept stores. 36 Hours in Bordeaux 2010-06-17T21:43:00Z

Everything on view was made between 1912, when European modernism was especially influential among a talented cadre of Russian artists, and 1934, when the Soviet government clamped down on avant-garde activities. Looking Back on a Revolution: Russian Art at MoMA 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Stop Making Sense was a true collaboration between the two men, with each contributing their own aesthetic ideas about music, cinematography and stagecraft into a cohesive whole of avant-garde rock-and-roll theater. David Byrne and Jonathan Demme on The Making of Stop Making Sense 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Others, however, were and are able to love both the popularly entertaining and the disquietingly avant-garde aspects of Mr. Taylor. Review: Paul Taylor’s ‘Tracer’ Recalls a Dance and an Artist 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

While working in a record store, he discovered the avant-garde music of Harry Partch and other experimental composers. Review: Iggy Pop Bares All, and Nothing, in ‘Gimme Danger’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

But the boldest avant-garde comedy I saw this year were two solo shows by Natalie Palamides — “Laid” and “Nate” — which co-opted the spirit of 1980s performance art in service of existential clowning. Best Comedy of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

It’s hard not to wonder if her later antipathy toward avant-garde cinema was born out of those early San Francisco years, including her relationship with Broughton. Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z

Mr Solomon opted instead to hang out with a band of avant-garde artists who had stuck together through hard times “like the early Christians, or like Freemasons”. The art of looking 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

She is a true pioneer of avant-garde urban theatre. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z

Some are animated by that solemn mix of lyricism and the desire to shock one associates with young, self-consciously avant-garde artists; others register as extended satirical sketches, etched with scalpels of varying sharpness. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar Faces and Themes All Over the World 2011-07-21T19:00:11Z

It’s a full immersion in the Warholian art scene and New York avant-garde of the 1960s, drawing on an incredible array of images and audio. New Fall Movies 2021: Here Are More Than 125 Coming Soon 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

His work, which is also influenced by science fiction and video game design, gained a wider fan base through collaborations with the avant-garde fashion label Ottolinger. An Artist Who Blurs Video Games and Italian Renaissance 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Groth in an interview compared Mr. Moore to the avant-garde director David Lynch. The Carpetbagger: Disney World Horror Fantasy Raises Knotty Copyright Issues 2013-01-19T16:52:45Z

Elliott understood that hip-hop could be a channel for the avant-garde, and that performance conveyed its own authenticity. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The programme also features concerts and cinema, picnics, parties and dance halls, all held in the avant-garde spirit of Impressionism. What to see at Impressionist Normandy: 10 best festival events 2010-04-23T09:44:00Z

While there, he encountered avant-garde art, notably Man Ray’s abstract photos. Review | In the galleries: Finding the unknown within what is known 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The Neoimpressionist painters, symbolist writers and avant-garde composers met one another in both cities. Neoimpressionism exhibit makes points about poetry, music's influence 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

The hotel is a great base for exploring the Rioja region's growing number of equally avant-garde bodegas including Baigorri and Ysios, both within cycling distance. Be Square: Spain's New Cubist Hotel 2010-12-16T12:50:00Z

Any time a show tries something vaguely avant-garde, there’s a good chance that there is an antecedent involving David Letterman. David Letterman Leaves His Successors a Rich Comedic Bequest 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Movement and pulse are ingredients missing from some avant-garde music, whose arbitrary array of sounds can seem frustratingly static. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z

Enter Cale, with his interest in drone, his connection to the avant-garde, and the low, sonorous viola that melted down traditional rock-song structures like molten lava. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

From this foray into the remotest tundra of the avant-garde, he soon developed a style that preserved the strangeness he prized while making that strangeness enticing, even welcoming. John Ashbery, the Gift of Quiet Moments 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Immersing himself in two of the city’s underground scenes — avant-garde art and S-and-M — Mapplethorpe gained recognition in the 1970s with his photographs of both crowds. Mapplethorpe: A Sculptural Perspective 2014-04-15T13:18:50Z

Frank Sinatra wanted a Colonial-revival house there in 1947, but architect E. Stewart Williams talked him into an avant-garde style of clean lines and simplicity that Palm Springs has since become synonymous with: midcentury modern. Indian Wells tennis tournament draws fans — and top players — to Palm Springs 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

In my dream New York Film Festival, some of the wonderments in Projections — the section dedicated to avant-garde and experimental material — would be programmed alongside the titles in the main slate. One of the New York Film Festival’s Best Movies Isn’t at the Main Event 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The image that Gelb is trying to project—stylish, theatrically savvy, up-to-date without being avant-garde—has proved insubstantial. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In musical terms, this mash-up of chamber orchestra and avant-garde pop was thrilling. Micachu/London Sinfonietta 2010-05-05T21:30:00Z

Ms. Varda, steeped in the traditions of the avant-garde, is resistant to nostalgia — there’s always too much to notice here and now — but she finds herself drawn to retrospection. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

There was absolutely nothing more radical and avant-garde going on at that time. The best performance I've ever seen: David Edgar 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

This is not some wacky avant-garde exercise; it’s a way to eliminate millions of tons of garbage a year. Fashion Tries on Zero Waste Design 2010-08-13T21:55:00Z

A protégé of the avant-garde filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos, Edward Owens made movies as a teenager in Chicago before relocating to New York. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

It was like a one-man avant-garde performance of “King Lear,” given by Brian Williams. Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

This certainly won’t do as an instance of book reviewing, but surely the A.I. program deserves some credit for having independently come up with the avant-garde prose style of Gertrude Stein! Banned Books, Parisian Spaghetti Dinners and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

By contrast, she harks back to the Diaghilev days, “when ballet — ballet — lassoed the avant-garde art movement.” Dance: Depths to Plumb, Sugarplum 2009-12-17T05:51:00Z

When I visited, one floor featured a large, temporary exhibition of more than 100 paintings by the Swiss painter Gustav Buchet, an important figure in the avant-garde movements in early-20th-century Switzerland. An Art-Filled Swiss Idyll in Lausanne and the Joux Valley 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

The New York premiere of “Julius Caesar. Spared Parts.,” adapted by the avant-garde Italian director Romeo Castellucci from the Shakespeare tragedy, will be staged Oct. Crossing the Line Festival Includes a New ‘Julius Caesar’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

“I’m sure that you’re trying to challenge yourself to invent something new, trying to be avant-garde,” he told the students. Can Virgil Abloh Fit in a Museum? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Long after his time on earth, he continues to hand down victories in the form of surprisingly avant-garde novels. Book review: ‘A Little Lumpen Novelita,’ by Roberto Bolaño

And it does nothing to dispute the commonly held notion that Chagall remained a small-town artist at heart, the proverbial fiddler on the roof, even when he was rubbing shoulders with the Parisian avant-garde. Art Review: His First Brush With the City of Light 2011-06-23T22:45:58Z

Le Balcon pulls off the effect with exploding streamers, thereby managing to communicate Stockhausen’s playfulness, as well as his avant-garde energy. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Known as a game-changing drummer of the 1960s avant-garde, he’s also become a kind of underground thought-leader in martial arts, natural healing and cellular biology. For Milford Graves, Jazz Innovation Is Only Part of the Alchemy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

McLaughlin’s work does reflect a reduced abstract geometry familiar in the Western avant-garde — especially Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

“For a short period, vegetarians were the culinary avant-garde, evidence that Americans — particularly white Americans — were emerging from an era of dominant-culture assimilation into a multicultural one,” Kauffman writes. This simple Portuguese soup will perk up your cold-weather doldrums 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

In 2006 he received a grant from the Franklin Furnace Fund, devoted to avant-garde art, which he used to work on “Shade Compositions,” a video and performance piece. Art: Rashaad Newsome, Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry 2011-10-20T20:08:10Z

“Fuchsia Swing Song,” from late 1964, was his extremely accomplished debut as a leader, an example of avant-garde ’60s jazz that still shows affinities with hard bop and blues. ArtsBeat: Which Jazz Greats Were Left Off the Blue Note 100? 2014-03-24T21:04:37Z

At the time, Perm was in the middle of what became known as the city’s “cultural revolution,” a period of heightened state interest in contemporary art and avant-garde culture. Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

This year’s prospectus is dominated by indie classical works — hybrids in which classical, avant-garde, pop and world music elements are combined to yield results that are not quite in any of those languages. The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z

It was a new social attitude that took its name from what was originally an avant-garde art movement that started in 1960s New York. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

This week’s challenge on “Project Runway” was to create an “avant-garde look” based on a piece of artwork the designers would collaborate on with young students from the Harlem School of the Arts. On the Runway Blog: Project Runway Season 9: Avant-Garde or Hot Mess? 2011-09-02T16:54:54Z

He even added some percussive effects to the instrument box in the final movement, a bit of avant-garde from 1740. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z

Every year, young, avant-garde artists and fashion designers are asked to create their own micro-collection of watches, usually three or four models. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: Contemporary Design and the Pop Swatch 2011-03-23T15:28:24Z

I don’t try to get too avant-garde because I’m six feet tall and end up looking like a clown. | Justin Bond 2010-12-07T19:09:00Z

I think Paper is perfectly positioned to be the go-to avant-garde agency. Paper Magazine, the Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open’ 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

At high school in Lancaster, southern California, he met Frank Zappa, who shared his love for r'n'b and avant-garde jazz, and who would become both Beefheart's greatest champion and his most intense source of irritation. Captain Beefheart obituary: rock's father of invention 2010-12-19T00:08:01Z

Gilman, who died in 2006, was a champion of avant-garde theater, known to the world as a fearsome critic — John Leonard, of The Times, once described his writing as “confrontation criticism.” Literary Fathers, Literary Daughters, and the Books That Bind Them 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

There is no house style: doggerel, avant-garde experimentation and all points between have always been welcome, and the range and quality of work is amazing – as the examples below show. Come rhyme with me: the best of the books blog poets 2010-10-06T20:31:00Z

“Maybe it’s self-serving, but I think we are more open-minded and avant-garde than the voting membership, which tends to be more conservative or at least mainstream” in its taste. Hall of Fame Decides Who Rocks, Officially 2014-04-09T21:44:44Z

That was the thing about Pee-wee Herman, the creation of Paul Reubens, who died on Sunday at 70, and the character’s combination of child’s play, burlesque comedy and avant-garde art. I Loved ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ Enough to Marry It 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z

Like other young black filmmakers there, Ms. Dash was impassioned and influenced by avant-garde, Latin American, African and Russian cinema. Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens its doors in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T11:31:00Z

Six banjo styles will be on display Thursday, from the more traditional to the more avant-garde, with musicality doubtless reigning over all. | Westchester: The New York Banjo Summit Is at Tarrytown Music Hall This Week 2013-01-12T02:55:29Z

Just as damningly, perhaps, EID describes Fox as "an avant-garde filmmaker and stage director whose previous work has been recognized by the 'Fringe Festival' of New York City." The gas industry attacks an Oscar nominee 2011-02-08T21:20:00Z

Inspired by the example of the avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, the Vogels began exhibiting a range of movies — experimental psychodramas, poetic documentaries, abstract animations, banned French bedroom farces and forgotten classics, complete with notes. A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

It has to do with post-1960 avant-garde and free jazz. Jazz in June: Sorting Through the Abundance 2011-06-02T22:13:45Z

In its sixth iteration, the festival places a particular emphasis on contemporary avant-garde music scenes. In Transit: Festival in Paris Spotlights Indie Music, Old and New 2011-05-22T10:00:51Z

The stories they were telling to young children in these very fun and subversive ways were avant-garde and progressive. Sara Bareilles on the Lessons of Pema Chodron and the Joy of 10-Mile Walks 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Susan Sollins, an art curator who took avant-garde exhibitions to small communities across the country and produced an award-winning PBS television series aimed at demystifying and popularizing contemporary art, died on Oct. Susan Sollins, a Creator of PBS’s Art21 Series, Dies at 75 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

I noticed a copy of “A Jean Toomer Reader,” one of the authors cited in Clemmons’ essay about the black avant-garde, on a shelf display to her right. Debut novelist Zinzi Clemmons is frank and experimental in 'What We Lose' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Born in Barcelona in 1923, Tapies was one of Spain's main exponents of abstract and avant-garde art in the second half of the 20th century. Spanish painter and sculptor Tapies dead at 88 2012-02-07T13:22:10Z

As news of the robbery spread through the Internet and avant-garde musicians and artists in Brooklyn and Queens there was an outpouring of support, Mr. Ahearn said. ArtsBeat: Silent Barn Performance Space in Queens Tries to Recover After Break-In 2011-07-21T17:28:00Z

The show ends with the avant-garde still on the rise — no fall here. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Among those of a certain age, the Fiorucci name still engenders gleeful memories of the days when the avant-garde and the mainstream were much farther apart. Retail Legend Elio Fiorucci Dies at the Age of 80 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The critically lambasted ’93 Biennial is being repositioned as an end-of-century equivalent to the landmark 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the Modern European avant-garde to America. The Whitney Museum replies to my request to withdraw a false statement 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

My evenings were full of art openings, alternative theater and avant-garde performances. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Twenty-first-century choreographers aren’t breaking new ground, at least not in the old sense of the avant-garde — and that isn’t a bad thing. Dance Review: Burr Johnson at Danspace Project 2012-06-03T21:30:53Z

What was so avant-garde and so revolutionary about Tim and Andrew’s approach was that they really emphasized the humanity of these figures that have become so mythologized for us over the years. John Legend and the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Cast on Faith and Musicals 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Each short film contributes layers to a story that references Russian modernism, from Soviet film of the 1920s and 1930s to the calamitous end of the Russian avant-garde. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

Thereafter, while the public remained mostly indifferent to Rousseau’s peculiar but engaging works, they became increasingly valued by the avant-garde. Rousseau’s Wide Circle of Devotees 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Indeed, for his spring 2018 show, the avant-garde designer Rick Owens, who called suits “a classic symbol of civilization,” incorporated them into his menswear collection alongside his bulbous bags, tiny shorts and vinyl trousers. A history of the final dying days of the power suit 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

It's a phase of society's development, but I see it as the reason that people have no interest in avant-garde culture. New Europe: Poles dancing 2011-04-03T20:38:01Z

“And she really is the most successful dramatist of the avant-garde working today.” Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

A Composer Arguing With Plato The composer Louis Andriessen’s pugnacious and exhilarating piece “De Staat” has a reputation as a milestone of avant-garde music in the later decades of the 20th century. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z

“There are 30 pavilions in this international carnival of the avant-garde, and each one simultaneously elevates the mind and makes the jaw drop,” Life magazine reported at the time. How Drake’s $100 Million Bet Saved the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

“Rather than always fighting to be avant-garde, sometimes just a really well-done, classic haircut can be different and gorgeous, whether it be a bob, beautifully cut layers, or a blunt fringe.” 5 Beauty Tips Women Can Learn From Dudes 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Forget the idea of an international avant-garde into which all 20th-century masters were somehow drawn, regardless of where they worked. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z

He made jazz a wellspring of daring innovation and radical experimentation and self-consciously commandeered its popular and mass-marketed modes into a form of the avant-garde. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

His happenings, he said, “were my only claim to the avant-garde.” Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The work on display is rarely avant-garde, but the place is a stodgily charming reminder of a time in Delhi when art was art, and business was a dirty word. Heads Up: Where Art Meets Commerce in Delhi 2010-04-29T13:30:00Z

From its base in Copenhagen, the movement’s manifesto was signed by 12 avant-garde Scandinavian chefs and called for “purity, freshness, simplicity and ethics.” ‘Nordic to go’ could be a gradually acquired taste 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

While Moon embraced rock stardom with open arms, Townshend wrestled with it, forever trying to justify himself to the spectre of the avant-garde artist and reliable family man he might have been. Who I Am: A Memoir by Pete Townshend - review 2012-10-09T11:35:01Z

But Mr. Jones, in a recent interview, insisted that he is still a “stranger in a strange land,” making an “audacious” shuttle between avant-garde and commercial audiences. Bill T. Jones Will Be Onstage in His New Work, ?Story/Time? 2012-01-18T20:12:35Z

"El Bulli: Cooking in Progress," a meticulous exploration of how this famously avant-garde eatery comes up with its insanely inventive creations, may not be for everyone. A film for foodies: Culinary creativity at elBulli 2011-07-19T20:23:09Z

Ichiyanagi became Yoko Ono's first husband when both were emerging avant-garde artists in New York in the late 1950s, and that has made him a footnote in the art world and in pop culture. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

He has taken some knocks on blogs in recent seasons that, in focusing on tailoring, he has lost some of his avant-garde edge. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Wimp Effect Takes Hold 2010-06-29T22:42:00Z

Whatever one thinks of the Shed, originally conceived as an outpost for avant-garde art forms, behaving like a satellite of the nearby Javits Center is another matter entirely. At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

More than a historical find, the new recording is an avant-garde gem that broadens our understanding of an iconic work. How John Coltrane’s Seattle recording of ‘A Love Supreme’ was found, thanks to 2 local saxophonists 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

At the avant-garde extreme of the program is the director Fern Silva’s psychedelic mixtape of a movie, “Rock Bottom Riser.” New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Rose became one of the country’s leading university museums for its collection and exhibitions of avant-garde art. Sam Hunter, Curator and Museum Founder, Dies at 91 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

“Nothing daring or experimental, no genre busting, no avant-garde, no re-enactments, no postmodern mirrors upon mirrors, no animated scenes, no original music, no 20-20 hindsight, no fancy dancing,” Mr. Else writes. Review: ‘True South’ Illuminates the Man Behind ‘Eyes on the Prize’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Though perhaps ultimately the most avant-garde of all the approaches was the one evinced by both Anna Wintour, a co-chairwoman of the event, and Ms. Kawakubo herself: Ignore the dress code entirely. Reviewing the Met Gala: The Good, the Avant-Garde, the Absurd 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Schiaparelli, meanwhile, remains one of 's most avant-garde figures, as well as one of its most inventive. The Art of Being a Woman: My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me by Patricia Volk – review 2013-05-25T14:30:01Z

The visual diversions he brought to what might otherwise have seemed taxing musical experiences did much to dispel the impenetrability often associated with avant-garde jazz over the course of the Kollektief's 36-year career. Willem Breuker obituary 2010-07-29T17:27:00Z

In his time, Eastman was a rare Black artist in the otherwise mostly white classical avant-garde. Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman’s Music Points to a New Canon 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Black-and-white photos by the Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah cover one wall, capturing the fury of Vietnam War protests and the daring experimentalism of avant-garde creative spaces like La MaMa and the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque. A Walk Through Velvet Underground History With John Cale 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Murray made his mark by reengaging with the older, more lyrical styles of Don Byas and Ben Webster, and he built new room in the avant-garde for blues humor and playful ironies. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A work of avant-garde experimentation in its own right, "Wedding Album" commemorated Lennon and Ono’s March 20, 1969, wedding near the Rock of Gibraltar in Spain. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's confessional, unapologetic "Wedding Album" 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Nothing in other avant-garde schools of Western art of that time resembles Mafai’s landscape. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z

The organizers describe this show’s theme as “avant-garde approaches to clay” over the last 80 years. Mark These Dates: A Wave of Art Is Coming Your Way 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Where Dover Street is an avant-garde theme park, Totokaelo exudes a natural calm, as if all the various strands of elegant design were always reconcilable. Barneys Is Gone. Where Should You Shop Next? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

He later became a leading figure of the jazz avant-garde movement in Europe. Danish saxophonist John Tchicai dies 2012-10-08T13:33:08Z

But the competition seemed like an even split between FX’s whimsically avant-garde “Atlanta” and Amazon’s period charmer “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” The Best and Worst Moments of the 2018 Emmys 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

By the late 19th century, fantasy was everywhere in avant-garde art. Surrealism? It was always old hat 2011-04-08T09:55:25Z

Mr. Rudd’s subsequent role in the avant-garde is hard to overstate. Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

“This fair is totally different than the Continental fairs — it’s a younger crowd of people,” said Ulrich Fiedler, whose Berlin gallery specializes in avant-garde design from the early 20th century. As Frieze London Matures, Choices Push Boundaries 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Both à la carte and prix fixe options are available at this two-Michelin-star avant-garde institution. In Maastricht, a Taste of Joie de Vivre 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

At New York fashion week, this moment came not during the presentation of a little-known designer of avant-garde dungarees, but at a press conference in the very heart of the artistic establishment, the Metropolitan Museum. Punk fashion celebrated at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-02-11T19:42:30Z

Their partnership, combining avant-garde music and performance art with technology, became a media sensation thanks to Moorman’s willingness — underwritten by her sardonic, sensation-seeking intelligence — to shed her clothes. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Peacock grew up in Yakima, but he did not return to the Northwest to play jazz, despite having earned a glowing reputation in both avant-garde and mainstream circles. Jazz musician Gary Peacock, who died this month, spent some crucial years in Seattle 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

You’ve always been very eclectic, with an interest in avant-garde, classical, rock ‘n’ roll. John Cale’s new society: “There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

The small painting’s admixture of traditional and avant-garde French, Spanish and Mexican elements is thus remarkable and revealing. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

A working-class populist of the avant-garde who believes that when people actually hear this music they appreciate and understand it. The Irreducible William Parker 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The result: avant-garde works that are richly layered in texture, color, and form. Emily Summers exhibits ceramics by Gareth Mason 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Butoh, an avant-garde style of dance with origins in postwar Japan, is an art form concerned with psychic pain. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

In their set, avant-garde and tradition held hands. S.F.'s Other Minds concerts create some otherworldly sounds 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

She and Jones helped found the New York Poets Theatre, a leading avant-garde venue in the early ’60s, and co-edited the literary newsletter The Floating Bear. Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

If the style tended toward the avant-garde, it was a far warmer avant-garde than the old one, which to me seemed more interested in forms than in people. He Invited Us Into His Closet for Theater. And It Was Astonishing. 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Is the age of experiment and the avant-garde over? Edinburgh festival turns back clock 50 years to literary debates of 1962 2012-08-10T15:45:44Z

Mr. Zorn, a saxophonist and seminal figure on New York’s improvising avant-garde, has staged “Cobra” and “Hockey” — the game pieces presented here — many times through the years. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

He took his own avant-garde rock outfit, The Sonic Catering Band, as inspiration, and the resulting feature — “Flux Gourmet” — is not, even loosely, a biopic. Welcome to Peter Strickland’s Worlds 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Often mocked today by intellectuals and reflexively dismissed as a piece of '80s kitsch, "Cats" looks positively avant-garde by current Broadway standards. 'Cats' to be revived in London, and maybe made into movie too 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Others were glad for a certain perspective the show offered: compared with avant-garde work from Europe, American art looked sane. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z

But somehow it seemed ideally suited for the first public event mounted by Issue Project Room, a vital avant-garde performing arts presenter, in its future home at 110 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn on Sunday. Music Review: Ne(x)tworks Quartet Plays Feldman?s Six-Hour Work 2010-04-12T22:43:00Z

The film is a muckraking road movie with a distinctive visual style that belies Mr. Fox’s day job as an avant-garde theater director in New York. A Muckraker Targets Onshore Drilling 2010-06-21T18:50:00Z

Unlike many, this approach to free improvisation is not individualist or strident or perhaps even consciously avant-garde. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the 20th century, avant-garde art, existentialism and the cinematic New Wave kept the relationship hot. French Embassy Starts a Festival and Albertine, a Bookstore 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The book is the story of Chanel No.5 — which, as the first synthetic fragrance in a radically simple bottle, was considered avant-garde in its time. Irma Boom’s Library, Where Pure Experimentalism Is on the Shelf 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

How many commercial successes study the avant-garde to get their ideas? Sahr Ngaujah of ?Fela!? Learns About Broadway 2010-05-14T03:29:00Z

Ms. Reichert also took a film course at Antioch with the avant-garde filmmaker David Brooks and organized a documentary workshop with Mr. Klein. Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The idea for Nii was inspired by one of Mr. Addy’s mentors, Jamie Morgan, whose photography studio and agency, the Buffalo Collective, had defined the look of British avant-garde fashion in the 1980s. Campbell Addy Up Close 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Thanks to a few earlier reconnaissance missions within the local avant-garde, and by the appearance of her poems in magazines, she arrived in New York with a reputation. Books of The Times: ‘Holding On Upside Down,’ a Biography of Marianne Moore 2014-02-12T22:41:42Z

The music is a manic and meticulous commingling of ideas from overlapping musical domains, among them classical Minimalism, progressive rock, soundtracks, early-20th-century avant-garde and early-21st-century electronica, not to mention sprinklings of comedy and darkness. Music Review: It All Comes Through in the Mix, Even the Kazoos 2011-03-08T23:21:59Z

A few years later, he moved to New York and joined avant-garde circles, participating in Happenings organized by the likes of Allan Kaprow and painting portraits of the writers Amiri Baraka and Allen Ginsberg. ‘He Raises the Bar for Me’: 4 Artists on the Influence of Bob Thompson 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

One is very accessible; the other rather avant-garde – not likely bedfellows at all. Ten years of publishing worth its Salt 2010-07-30T13:45:00Z

On those records Ms. Holter’s grounding in avant-garde classical composition melds seamlessly with her knack for spinning memorable pop hooks. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Julia Holter at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-03-08T00:17:18Z

It is as if some avant-garde troupe of performance artists has been relegated to dressing store windows and is making the best of it. Last Chance: Emerging ?Young Israelis? at Lesley Heller Workspace 2010-08-11T22:45:00Z

“But it’s accessible as well as being avant-garde and sophisticated.” The Dirtiest Parts of ‘Naked Lunch,’ for Your Record Collection 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The same hat caught the eyes of the owners of Opening Ceremony, an avant-garde shop with two locations in Manhattan and outposts in Los Angeles and Tokyo. From Berlin, Hats With a Modern Flair 2010-06-02T21:24:00Z

There’s nothing radical about the language or the story, nor anything visibly avant-garde to shock the sensibility. Review: In ‘The Flick,’ Contemplating a Life of Stale Popcorn 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Critics seemed to agree that they had, and that New York, for the first time, had superseded Paris as avant-garde art’s new frontier. Retelling the Story of Abstract Expressionism Through Women Artists 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

“She was this seminal New York artist who was bold and brash, avant-garde,” Roumain said, “incredibly powerful and incredibly inventive. She was a destination, and her career was, even at that time, landmark.” Her Symphony Reclaims an Ancestral Story, and Classical Music 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

Kristin Marting, the founding artistic director of HERE, wanted to make something clear in announcing her departure from the avant-garde Off Off Broadway theater after 30 years. Artistic Director of HERE to Depart After 30 Years 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Moments like these — and there are a few others scattered through Rollin’s oeuvre — remind us of the close kinship of outsider art and the avant-garde. Video: Five Cult Horror Films by Jean Rollin, Remastered for DVD 2012-01-29T04:38:09Z

Their drawings depicted buildings that effectively vaporized, much like filmy, see-through Minimalist glass structures done by the avant-garde today. Claude Parent, Visionary Architect of the Oblique, Dies at 93 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The avant-garde is a notion shaped by discomfort, as well as defiance. Big Ears Festival Stars the Avant-Garde 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

She was never painting for local art shows but for the New York world of the avant-garde. The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

“The avant-garde theatre is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic and often wildly, wildly funny,” he wrote in the Times essay, championing experiment. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

He agrees that an opera house must innovate, but questions the necessity of being radical or avant-garde. Vienna State Opera, ditched by star conductors, soldiers on 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Denk argues that the Ives sonatas, composed early in the 20th century, are mistakenly categorized as avant-garde works rather than “epic Romantic sonatas with Lisztian thematic transformations.” Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

The Italian filmmaker Emma Dante, best known as a director of avant-garde theater and opera, adapted the film based on her acclaimed play of the same name. ‘The Macaluso Sisters’ Review: Tragedy Across Time 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

“The Last Lover,” the avant-garde writer Can Xue’s second novel to be translated into English, is set in a fictional Western country, but it might as well be Jupiter. Edan Lepucki’s ‘California,’ Alberto Moravia’s ‘Agostino,’ and More 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

I learned about the avant-garde and about the possibilities of theater. Downtown?s Pioneering Stage Mama 2011-01-23T02:30:16Z

The focus here is on a shift that the decade brought with the increasing use of avant-garde and modern classical scores. 3 Film Series to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Le Havre became the most important showcase of post-war avant-garde architecture in France, but most of the locals found it baffling, even brutal. | Le Havre in a New Light 2011-12-21T20:37:21Z

The collection is now housed in the Tate Archive and rivals similar avant-garde holdings in France, Germany and the US. Nimai Chatterji obituary 2011-04-03T17:18:33Z

Lesser known is that Kusama, who was part of New York’s avant-garde art scene in the 1960s, used her psychedelic Infinity Mirror Rooms as performance spaces. Travel back to 1968 with Yayoi Kusama, Ron Athey and the Joshua Light Show 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

A pianist originally from Cuba, he has a superb new album, “Hidden Voices,” informed both by folkloric Afro-Cuban custom and the postwar jazz avant-garde. Jazz Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

A soprano of staggering versatility, she cultivated a repertoire that ranged from the classical works of Mozart to the avant-garde compositions of Webern. Marni Nixon, uncredited star of Hollywood musicals, dies at 86 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

This relatively lavish, avant-garde exercise could never have been made in a market economy — it also sufficed to establish Tarr’s European reputation and his distinctive brand of visionary miserableness. Welcome to His World: Bela Tarr’s First Meteorological Event 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel I read this year was originally published in 1881. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Babbitt set his course toward serious avant-garde composition in 1932, when he played through the scores of some Schoenberg piano music that an uncle had brought home from Europe. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z

The 6,000-square-foot space brims with Old World splendor and avant-garde accents. The Diamond Horseshoe Club Reopens in New York’s Paramount Hotel 2014-01-08T05:00:00Z

This is Israel’s mother, Pamela Mayo Israel, once a member of the avant-garde downtown company the Living Theater, now ailing and taking those tinctures that her son gives her. ‘Cannabis!’ Review: Preaching to the Partaking Choir 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Through the years the band has evolved from avant-garde to rootsy. Music Review: Golden Palominos, With Lianne Smith and Lori Carson 2012-12-31T22:51:39Z

The aura of avant-garde jazz has clung to Ms. Bley over the years, somewhat to her bemusement. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

It included a module that would transform both avant-garde and popular music. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Yet, despite its avant-garde associations, it has always felt stridently human. Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Things that will make you snort-laugh: avant-garde theater, high school style. Essential Arts: Dudamel speaks out, the new rack of Tony nominees, Cheech Marin's Chicano art center 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

Opening Saturday and running through Wednesday, the show features objects that were made for kings and queens, emperors and pharaohs, and representatives of the avant-garde. At the Tefaf Fair, Old Masters and Powerful Women 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

A dozen independent publishers and literary organizations, all emphasizing avant-garde or experimental narratives, will host readings and discussions. Open Press debuts this weekend celebrating avant-garde books 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

This week he poses the question, “When did the avant-garde become black?” Dance Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:42:32Z

But by the end of the 1960s his initial radicalism was eclipsed by other avant-garde developments on both sides of the Atlantic. Art Review: ?Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970? at N.Y.U. - Review 2012-01-13T16:11:35Z

First, such dismissals erase the considerable debt Western Modernism owes to African and Oceanic art, as well as the critical influence of Hindu and Buddhist spirituality on the postwar American avant-garde. Firebrands Who Forged a New Art for a New India 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Drawing inspiration from avant-garde dance, she developed her own repertoire of movements. Say it with mirrors 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881? A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

He had previously used several Iberian stone statuettes stolen from the Louvre by a friend of a friend, the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire, as a model for his 1907 painting “Demoiselles d’Avignon.” Happy Birthday to the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

David James, a USC professor of cinema and expert in avant-garde film, calls the group's work "the premier light show in Los Angeles and one of the best in the world." Single Wing Turquoise Bird flashes back to its '60s light shows 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

His music attracted the most avant-garde ears to the piano bars of the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio, where he regularly performed in the early ’50s. A Black Pianist Helped Birth Bossa Nova. His Story Is Rarely Told. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Leary, the credentialed purveyor of hallucinatory drugs, was suddenly invited into the center of the artistic, social and sexual avant-garde. New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary?s Papers 2011-06-15T23:40:29Z

The society committed to showing every work of avant-garde art submitted to the exhibition. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

But it also makes for a lovely and lasting indictment of the avant-garde trends and tropes of his day. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

By the ’90s the idea of a single avant-garde was dead and buried, and in its place arose a pluralist art ecosystem that spans the planet. Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Foreman is the most eminent elder statesman of the avant-garde in New York theater and its most exacting auteur. Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ 2013-05-08T02:00:01Z

"The avant-garde is not a movement, it's not a style," Cameron says. Crazy babies and pantyhose: 5 must-see works at OCMA's 'Avant-Garde' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jérémie Rozan, a founder of Surface to Air, the avant-garde French fashion label that has opened a new store in SoHo, considered Le Baron for an event. New York Fashion Week: Oh, to Be Fashion Week?s ?In? Spot ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:03:58Z

“Hitchcock is the most daring avant-garde filmmaker in America today,” Sarris wrote. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z

He was studying and working at the avant-garde Burian Theater in Prague in 1956 when Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian uprising. Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

He was a masterful and exacting improviser, and performed in schools, gardens and hospitals, as well as avant-garde institutions around the world. Kazuo Ohno obituary 2010-06-07T17:40:00Z

As a dancer, Mr. Reigenborn was the epitome of the deceptively cool Minimalist style that emerged in the dance avant-garde of the 1970s, especially in Ms. Childs’s choreography. Garry Reigenborn, a Dancer and Influential Choreographer, Dies at 58 2011-04-16T18:23:01Z

“He expanded his audience by holding avant-garde ‘rug’ concerts in informal settings downtown to attract the young and unstuffy.” Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Around the same time, he founded what would become the Art Ensemble of Chicago, a performance troupe as much as a jazz outfit, and a band of particular significance to the avant-garde. N.E.A. Jazz Masters Include Roscoe Mitchell and Dorthaan Kirk 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

A singularly focused and avant-garde talent, Ms. Streb bends the messy rush of risk to her indomitable will. ‘Born to Fly’ Traces Elizabeth Streb’s Avant-Garde Journey 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

"Many music critics still believe in magical black people: 'Oh, they're making crazy, avant-garde music in Chicago, and it's called juke'," he says. DJ /rupture: how to sing like a sufi 2013-03-26T18:59:01Z

This show — the first of the season for Sound It Out, an avant-garde concert series — put Ms. Victor and Ms. Melford together for the first time in a trio with the cellist Marika Hughes. Live Jazz: Three September Standouts, From Fay Victor to Starebaby 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

On the cultural front, there’s a copy of the catalog of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European avant-garde art to the United States. ‘A Brief History’ Depicts City’s Story at Historical Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Instead of a steel column stiffly supporting a billboard the avant-garde designer created a tepee of irregularly shaped, leaning vertical planes programmed with digital art and ads, all specifically designed for irregular screens. There’s a New Billboard in Town, and You Can Walk in 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

To me the possibilities of the experimental avant-garde are not greater than the experiences I’ve had traveling in the African diaspora.” In Africa, a Village of Mind, a World of Styles 2010-05-21T22:37:00Z

The filmmakers’ approach encompasses both the tools of a PBS informational documentary and avant-garde cinema. ‘Anthropocene: The Human Epoch’ Review: Global Warnings 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Although he helped to start and acted in an avant-garde theater troupe when he was 18, Mr. Fischer never trained formally as a theatrical artist or director. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

But in true avant-garde fashion, the real subject of “Wavelength” is film itself and how sound, light and time are structured by this technical medium. In Moving Images, Michael Snow Teases the Eye and the Mind 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

At the time, because they were provided by Wolfgang Goebbel, an incredibly tasteful avant-garde lighting designer, I thought they were ironic. Es Devlin, set and costume designer – portrait of the artist 2013-07-09T17:16:54Z

Hollywood fed off the avant-garde while Hollywood, in the memorable phrase of the theorist Paul Arthur, became “the animating skeleton in the avant-garde film closet.” Avant-Garde Cinema Ran Parallel to Hollywood 2011-11-04T20:56:20Z

Most designers play it similarly cool with khaki, opting to tweak the fit, fabric and hue and leave the avant-garde theatrics to other garments. Dress Codes: New Designers Make Khaki Sexy 2010-05-19T22:49:00Z

"I don't mind what people do," he said, "although I do think the sudden accessibility of contemporary art – art for the most part descended from the 20th-century avant-garde – is a bizarre development." Young British Artists versus old masters 2012-06-01T21:55:05Z

He also made the first recording of Stravinsky's avant-garde piano concerto entitled Movements, conducted by the composer. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z

A professor at Italian universities, Mr. Eco had been at the heart of an avant-garde group of experimental writers, artists and musicians since the early 1960s. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

FreeDarko, an avant-garde basketball blog that shut down in 2011, pioneered “liberated fandom”: rather than pledge loyalty to a franchise, fans root for players, coaches and story arcs. A Brooklyn Sports Bar Without a Home Team 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Quentin Tarantino is known for his vast and eclectic range of cinematic influences that seep into his films, ranging from the pulpy and lowbrow to the obscure and avant-garde. Quentin Tarantino’s favorite TV shows might surprise you 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

It was also the time when I fell in love with the avant-garde theater. Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling) 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

The ancient thrives alongside the avant-garde and the cool: the shots of two menacing Taiwanese opera pirates in aviator shades taking in Cynthia and eventually a lot more. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Colette’s earliest books, the “Claudine” series, follow the heroine from her youth as a rebellious teenager to her maturity as the toast of avant-garde Paris. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Even members of such homegrown avant-garde troupes as movement-based Synetic Theater and interactive Dog and Pony DC have been hopping into station wagons and taking their shows to far-flung fringe festivals and other venues. D.C.’s secret export: theater 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

There may be a place called La Ma Ma that somebody brings good avant-garde international theater to, but it will not be La Ma Ma. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z

He discovered Georges Seurat, coined the term the term Neo-Impressionism to distinguish painters like Seurat and Paul Signac from their predecessors and helped introduce African sculpture to the French avant-garde. Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now). 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

He may be the most fiercely avant-garde impresario in opera. Critic’s Notebook: Gerard Mortier, in Rare Interview, Weighs His Recent Past 2014-02-02T21:48:51Z

Drinks! is more like it at the mod, mostly white lounge adjacent to the four-star, avant-garde Minibar. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 7 favorite places to eat (and drink) right now — plus one to avoid 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Even without canine competition, the avant-garde has been having a hard time of late. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

No, not to ancient Greece, but to an era of avant-garde theater that flourished several decades ago. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Who says the general public can't get abstract art, or couldn't get it even back when the word avant-garde really meant something? Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z

With a nod in the direction of avant-garde 20th century writers such as BS Johnson and Georges Perec, Self notes that the printed novel is still a relatively new form. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

The institutional commissions are a strange hybrid, both avant-garde and conservative. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

The rest of his days were spent "in a metropolitan studio full of very avant-garde potters" making a new style of pot. Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z

But most of all, their Italy was an imaginative space in which to develop their art – a space that had become briefly unfashionable with the artistic avant-garde. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

When I went there, I ran into Mr. Twist, who cheerfully showed me around, filling me in on Mr. Anton, an avant-garde puppeteer who died in 1984. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Learning of a Danish grant that required a collaboration between a pair of artists from New York City and Denmark, she decided to team up with the only Danish artist she knew — an avant-garde accordionist. Breaking Through Categories and Conventions at BAM 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Unlike former teen star Jared Leto, they never paused to start a band or attempt the avant-garde before returning to acting. The evolution of Channing Tatum: from 'dull beefcake dude' to XXL movie star 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

The commercial architecture of the new Washington skews modern but stops short of avant-garde. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

One early inspiration was The United States of America, the cult hippy-era California group who strove to add avant-garde electronic experimentation to pop music, and whose sole album Keenan once described as a "bible". Trish Keenan obituary 2011-01-17T15:27:31Z

After a period studying music concrete and avant-garde production at college in London, they're now focusing on their future as immaculate pasticheurs of a bounteous period in pop history. New band of the day ? No 793: The Superimposers 2010-05-24T16:42:00Z

In December 1970, Pang was invited to assist Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono with their avant-garde film projects, which led to a full-time position as their personal assistant in 1971. May Pang on John Lennon's creative process: "He was always nervous about his own writing" 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

The black-and-white photos chronicle the area's flourishing avant-garde scenes, including poetry readings and riots in Tompkins Square Park. Ai Weiwei's early photos being exhibited in NYC 2011-06-29T15:12:11Z

Muybridge also foresaw the “structural” film of the ’70s; recently included in the National Film Registry, Mr. Andersen’s film is itself an illustration of that avant-garde tendency. Plot? Put That Aside in the Films of Marcel Hanoun 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Branch and her quartet, Fly or Die, put some fun back into the avant-garde. Jaimie Branch trumpets a note of fun into avant-garde jazz 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It's prone to plunging to depths of almost avant-garde atonality, most painfully on Don't Stop, which should be renamed Please Stop on this showing. The Stone Roses – review 2013-06-09T18:44:52Z

Certainly the Met has not evolved into a New York outpost of a German opera house, with radically avant-garde productions the norm. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z

Also making its premiere at the Live Arts Festival over the weekend was “Cankerblossom,” another new production from one of the city’s pre-eminent avant-garde theater troupes, the Pig Iron Theater Company. Critic?s Notebook: Nothing Left to Lose, or Too Dark to Contemplate 2010-09-07T22:17:00Z

“If you ask, ‘How many conservative avant-garde artists are there now?’ A Polish Museum Turns to the Right, and Artists Turn Away 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

To these powerful sounds — quite Graham-like in their blurring of the ancient and the avant-garde — five women slump around on their knees, rising for solo bursts only to sink back down in rolling, swirling patterns. Review: Pushing 100, the Martha Graham Dance Company Leans Into Youth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The book opens with a note to readers, marking the imprint’s territory as the liminal zone not only between “picture book and avant-garde illustrated book,” but also between youth and adulthood. The House That Mouse Built 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Part avant-garde animator, part optical alchemist, part mystic, part psychologist of perception, Mr. Belson made more than 30 short films between the late 1940s and 2005, all of which defy ready classification. Jordan Belson, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 85 2011-09-11T09:36:30Z

Palestrina, Shostakovich, rap, avant-garde noise, jazz, performance art. WildUp at the Colburn School and Music Academy of the West 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Funny the way success renders yesterday's avant-garde palatable to today's mainstream. Clive Owen and Sam Rockwell hit Broadway in 'Old Times' and 'Fool for Love' with different results 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Artists and intellectuals were drawn there as avant-garde movements like Cubism and Surrealism were taking shape. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Market Surges for Works by 20th-Century Prague Artists 2011-03-03T12:23:45Z

It’s a longstanding fantasy that avant-garde art opposes and subverts the homogenizing effects of consumerism, bureaucracy, industrialization and so forth. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

That means re-enactments using very basic computerized graphics, a group of enthusiastic puppets and an avant-garde dance troupe. “Loose collection of daytime nonsense”: SNL mocks CNN’s bizarre “reenactments” 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

“If you put this over the right image,” she pointed out, “it might be the most avant-garde thing you’ve ever seen.” Mica Levi’s Anti-Musical Soundtracks 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

As a teenager Mr. Eskelin had some formative bandstand experience playing house parties with her, but his own career would follow the thornier prerogatives of the avant-garde. The Week Ahead: July 31 ? Aug. 6 2011-07-28T15:11:28Z

I’m quite sure that Narciso Rodriguez doesn’t qualify as an avant-garde designer, but during a visit to his studio later in the day, I certainly wondered if a skillful eye and hand might be radical. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week: @whatdidIjustsee 2011-09-09T02:42:57Z

Despite his relative obscurity today, Sant’Angelo was widely considered a visionary in his time, known for his expressive, avant-garde designs and stretchy fabrics that revealed the natural form. T Magazine: Sant'Angelo Raises Arizona 2011-09-23T16:15:32Z

He staunchly adhered to figurative painting at a time when Abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptual art were seen as avant-garde. Buffet: A Life of Success, Rejection and Now a Celebration 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

NYX, a festival mixing avant-garde classical and rock performers, will be held from Friday through Sunday at Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side; spectrumnyx.org. Music Review: Caroline Chin and Brian Snow at Spectrum 2012-08-01T21:20:49Z

And the Naked Koons spoofs are already starting to surface -- with heady references to the French avant-garde of the early 20th century and Norman Rockwell. Will Naked Jeff Koons be the art world's Grumpy Cat? 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

If the royals were glamorous and exotic in France, the show’s 500 pieces were equally glamorous and exotic in Indore, where European avant-garde furniture and art must have seemed lunar. What Josephine Baker and a Maharajah Teach Us About Design 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

And the artistic ferment of pre- and post-first world war France made itself felt cinematically, with an amazing outpouring of avant-garde short films. A short history of French cinema 2011-03-22T12:27:30Z

She said that she liked the main exhibition — a retrospective of Umbo, an avant-garde German photographer — and expressed relief about seeing art in person after months of being mostly indoors. Europe’s Museums Begin Reopening, Cautiously, With New Rules 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

FYF continues to curate a festival that toes the line between the avant-garde and the mainstream. FYF Fest 2014: Interpol, Phoenix bring a dash of professionalism 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

The neighborhood, bubbling over with energy, provides a new kind of inspiration for the studio’s avant-garde arrangements. A Famed Florist Relocates to New York’s East Village 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Alumni of Chicago’s avant-garde Moto restaurant, the trio watches as a yellow liquid thickens into moist curds. Can a California company do better than the egg? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

“If the arts represent the psyche of a country, there needs to be a place for something that borders on avant-garde.” Ethan Hawke Dives into ‘Macbeth’ With Zeal 2013-11-25T13:11:02Z

“A Sentimental Novel,” the final published work of the avant-garde novelist and theorist Alain Robbe-Grillet, appeared in France four months before his death, in 2008, and in English translation last spring. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rothenberg will be joined by more human performers, including the avant-garde composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros, to mingle with cicada sounds from around the world. ArtsBeat: Audio: Making Music With Cicadas 2013-05-21T17:24:15Z

The downtown staple of avant-garde and rock opens with the beautiful calamity of the Bang on a Can Marathon, 24 hours of exceptional experimental music. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z

The “avant-garde” for this crowd, in other words, was about socializing, social media and mild rebellion in the form of unruliness. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow’s avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian theater director who irked establishment given house arrest 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Owing as much to anarchic circus clowning and slapstick as to avant-garde theatre, Dada and Fluxus , these antics have featured flying food, Punch and Judy-style puppetry, live animals – even exploding vegetables. Artist of the week 2010-08-04T16:33:00Z

The bold background of orange and white rhombuses only hints at his avant-garde sensibilities. ‘Icons of Modern Art’: Picassos, Matisses, Monets, Oh, My! 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Asawa studied art at Black Mountain College, the heart of mid-20th-century avant-garde art, and her teachers, we learn, included Merce Cunningham and Buckminster Fuller. American Artists, Inspiring and Enchanting 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

A former high school athlete and J. Crew model, Barney made his mark with avant-garde creations such as his "Drawing Restraint" series, as well as performance and cinematic art. Matthew Barney at MOCA vs. Bjork at MoMA 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

First developed in 1983 by the avant-garde director Lee Breuer of Mabou Mines, it is now being revived by the Public Theater and the Onassis Foundation USA for six free performances. Review: Nature and Song Bring Electricity to ‘Gospel at Colonus’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Talking Heads made for great material, with its revolutionary mash-up of punk, funk, art, avant-garde and other sounds. 'Stop Making Sense' still one of the best band documentaries ever 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

She learned from the avant-garde cats that to operate from the edges is also a choice: “It’s not like I’m working at the margin because I’ve been placed there,” she said. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

She remains avant-garde and acerbic, and now performs in this career retrospective project with Weasel Walter, Bob Bert and Tim Dahl. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

There’s mutual respect between these soft-spoken, iron-willed directors and company leaders who belong to the top tier of avant-garde auteurs in New York. Richard Maxwell Comes Full Circle With O?Neill?s ?Early Plays? 2012-02-19T03:27:16Z

Tim Hamilton, 50, the head of global creative design at the North Face, first learned of Equus in December 2019, when he saw a brochure featuring avant-garde horse photography at a Santa Fe hotel. Can We Learn Anything From Horses? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

This is the fourth year they have attended, and they said that seeing performers and performances that are more avant-garde or unpolished than expected is part of the appeal. Bushwig Grows Up 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Fauvism would become the first major avant-garde movement of the 20th century. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

The sellout crowd at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on Friday night suggests that the avant-garde label wasn’t intimidating; the music itself was intoxicating. Jazz legend Carla Bley delivers a night of beauty and magic at the Atlas 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

What makes Dog Star particularly valuable is that, while of the moment, the "orchestra" was formed a decade ago to also investigate the tradition of the avant-garde. Dog Star Orchestra joyfully ventures out of bounds 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

One of the most esteemed performers and composers on the jazz avant-garde, she will gather a different group of collaborators every night during this five-day run. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Later, on the museum’s roof, similar questions filled my mind as a guide ushered me and 11 others into another much-hyped rectangular construction with avant-garde ambitions: the Nomiya restaurant. Choice Tables: Museum Restaurants: Where Art and Haute Cuisine Meet in Paris 2010-03-12T17:06:00Z

Those pieces illustrate Mr. Husa’s mature style: a mix of formal rigor, dramatic vitality and avant-garde techniques used to illuminate ethical concerns. Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 95 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

"People love the diversity and avant-garde nature of it and this year it will be better than ever." Glastonbury 2010: Snoop Dogg, U2 and Stevie Wonder lead the field 2010-04-14T21:05:00Z

Founded as an artist collective in 1971, the Kitchen is one of the city’s oldest nonprofit art centers dedicated to avant-garde and cross-disciplinary work. The Kitchen Will Spend Some Creative Time in a Westbeth Loft 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

One week they might screen avant-garde films and another week they might host a dance party; visit their Facebook page: facebook.com/mindpirates.ev. 36 Hours in Berlin 2013-09-05T22:08:04Z

Their quest to be at the sword’s tip of the avant-garde inspired and exhausted them both. Review | How Picasso’s she-devils changed art forever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

On “Swirling,” named for the album’s one Allen composition, the Arkestra wraps its arms around a huge range of musical history: swing, early rock ’n’ roll, Chicago blues, avant-garde improvisation, abstract electronics. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

News, commercials and bits of avant-garde films flicker alongside Warhol’s silent contemplations of band members staring back at the camera. For Pop Music, 2021 Was the Year of the Deep Dive 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

The International Contemporary Ensemble, with its 35 members, has long been an important outlet for modern composers — including Lewis, long revered among avant-garde jazz fans. Outspoken Composer to Lead International Contemporary Ensemble 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

For a generation of young artists flanking World War II, Black Mountain College in rural North Carolina was the California Institute of the Arts of America's avant-garde culture. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

It’s the songs you know all too well, but played by an avant-garde madman with an oddly appealing sense of melody. John Fahey made the best Christmas album ever 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

“Hitchcock is the most daring avant-garde filmmaker in America today,” Mr. Sarris wrote. Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z

Running through Sept. 27, the exhibition features 55 of Ms. Hadid’s paintings, which she said aim to push forward the avant-garde art movement that began a century ago in St. Petersburg. Pushing Forward an Abstract Art Drive That Began a Century Ago 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Almost no young musician working in pop music has more promise than Rosalía, the Spanish flamenco-trained singer with thrilling ideas about avant-garde pop. The Playlist: Unreleased John Coltrane, and 9 More New Songs 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

At this year’s Under the Radar festival, the Public Theater’s annual survey of avant-garde theater and performance in New York, some of these stories may seem familiar. At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

This desire to believe is part of the lineage of the avant-garde and simultaneously criticizes that tradition. We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sakamoto was drawn to modern art and especially the avant-garde work of Cage. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

In 2013, there was “Gutai: Splendid Playground,” devoted to the work of the Japanese collective; followed by “Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s,” which closed this month and explored the avant-garde German artists’ group. Coming to the Met’s Rooftop: A Pierre Huyghe Installation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But all were already heavy hitters in the overlapping worlds of classical, pop, folk and avant-garde music, and so ubiquitous as team players that the very notion of collaboration was essential to yMusic’s DNA. yMusic brings genre-bending ethos to Kirkland 2014-03-26T20:41:00Z

By turns glitchy and ambient, insinuatingly funky and deliberately difficult, their experimental hip-hop is an often-exhilarating collision between the avant-garde and the dance floor. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

But her family’s folk revival legacy has overshadowed her avant-garde compositions. Spitfire Fiddling: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Her signature works, rooted in the avant-garde and black consciousness movements of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, leavened sharp social commentary on issues like race and identity with a wry wit. Joan Miller, Modern-Dance Champion, Dies at 77 2014-04-04T00:18:48Z

Moxley began in the 1990s avant-garde, writing poems that refused the comforts of prose sense as they attacked the comforts of capitalism. New works by poets Jennifer Moxley, Judy Halebsky, Saeed Jones 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

In addition, the organization continues to promote and disseminate avant-garde performances through OntheBoards.tv, an on-demand website of recorded shows. Mark Morris world premiere part of On the Boards' 2012-13 season 2012-04-29T15:03:44Z

In the 1930s, Raymond Scott was at the forefront of avant-garde jazz. Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham Presents ‘Manhattan Research’ 2013-08-09T20:14:42Z

That reasonable assertion helped set the terms for “Very Very Threadgill,” an ambitious two-day festival of his music, and a celebration of his legacy and influence in the American avant-garde. Henry Threadgill Festival at Harlem Stage 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

“Live art and performance has quite an august, avant-garde heritage to it,” he said. This Year’s Winner of the Turner Prize? A Group That Performs Protest. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

"I care about beats, I care about snare drums, deep chords, and lyrics," she says, but her songs are less forays into sampladelic avant-garde bop than exercises in hip-pop fun. New band of the day – Dena (No 1,335) 2012-08-21T16:01:51Z

So why do I call this calming music “avant-garde jazz” and not the smarmy candy known as “smooth jazz”? Simply: smooth jazz is a category. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

At the wulf, Mark So, a composer influenced by Fluxus, made his own stab at bringing our avant-garde back to the future. wasteLAnd and rest of new music scene in L.A. is thriving with a lowercase T 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps it has to do with the festival’s history of a consistent taste for the experimental and the avant-garde. Holland Festival Tackles the Enigma That Is Europe 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Outside the historic center, former factories have been transformed into design studios, old warehouses have been repurposed as unconventional art venues, and galleries are packed with avant-garde works. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

On one level this blend of erudition and lubrication started on Valentine’s Day in 2009 at Judson Memorial Church, the birthplace of many avant-garde collaborations. Taking Schubert for a Wild Joy Ride 2010-12-03T22:00:00Z

The albums Mr. Rivers made for Impulse Records in the ’70s would further burnish his reputation in the avant-garde. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z

But it’s worth the effort to track them down because they are doing the important work that the avant-garde has always done, only now on your computer and often for free. The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Sun Ra, the avant-garde musician with a passion for outer space, was a big influence. A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

If I tell you I’m going to play some “avant-garde jazz,” I think I know what you are expecting. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

And Katerina Jebb, the photographer and filmmaker who rose to prominence in the 1990s working for avant-garde magazines like The Face, is a longtime collaborator. A Fragrance Debut? First, It’s Lights, Camera, Action 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

But he said his “chameleonlike” tastes for music, from electric to unplugged, from the avant-garde to the traditional, undermined his commercial prospects in a marketplace that valued consistency. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Barry's score encompasses many genres of music, from avant-garde to baroque. VIDEO: Plates smashed at Royal Opera House 2013-06-12T23:26:59Z

The moblike scene occurred during a performance by the rambunctious Asphalt Orchestra, an avant-garde 12-piece marching band presented here by Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Music Review: Asphalt Orchestra Enlivens Lincoln Center 2010-08-05T19:55:00Z

He was directly responsible for introducing Stravinsky, a staunch neoclassicist, to the art of 12-tone music, an avant-garde compositional technique whose best-known avatar was Arnold Schoenberg. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

He specialized in whimsical, avant-garde hat wear — from a giant clamshell hat to feathery headpieces to turban-inspired toppers. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

From March 25-28, the university will host hundreds of authors working in the literary avant-garde. Avant-garde &Now literary festival kicks off at CalArts 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The definition of avant-garde jazz has been a point of contention since its inception. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

“These are the latest things from the European avant-garde. As such, this is a particularly rich window on a generation of collecting.” Brooklyn Bridge Park to Display Danish Artist 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The concept is more complicated and more avant-garde in theory than in practice. A Revival of A. R. Gurney’s ‘Wayside Motor Inn’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

She began to establish a reputation among insiders of New York’s singing scene in the 1980s, when the avant-garde singer Diamanda Galás took a lesson from her while visiting New York. She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

He is abused at the Catholic school he attends; becomes an abuser himself; and later achieves success as a dancer in an avant-garde, downtown New York company. Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z

The question, then, is how we are to approach a work that has gone from avant-garde to classic, far removed from the ability truly to provoke. Music Review: Schoenberg?s ?Pierrot Lunaire? by Chicago Symphony 2012-02-26T21:30:51Z

At the avant-garde retail temple Opening Ceremony, which opened in 2002, fanciful sneakers, slippers and oxfords greatly outnumber high heels. Are High Heels Headed for a Tumble? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Décor and video by the Quay Brothers add further grotesqueries, the avant-garde American animators framing video of inconsequential monochrome stop-motion animatronics with gigantic red brushstrokes. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Ballard, the late British author who falls partway between science fiction and the postmodern literary avant-garde, was in the deepest sense a man of the 20th century. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

It made sense, then, that the pioneers of avant-garde but accessible synthesizer pop should bestride a lineup that also featured Hot Chip, Britain's leading geek techno band. Latitude festival 2013 – review 2013-07-21T17:05:30Z

The Voice always saw itself as an oppositional paper, offering an irreverent, muckraking, avant-garde alternative to the establishment press. J. Hoberman Talks About Village Voice and Film Culture 2012-01-22T03:13:03Z

In West Berlin, he joined a group of similarly restless, avant-garde intellectuals who called themselves Group 47. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Additionally, it touted the museum as a hub for many things cinema, from lectures to showings of avant-garde and regional films to premieres of higher-budget movies.  George Lucas museum to feature more than 'Star Wars' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

For Josephus Thimister, an avant-garde designer who moved off the fashion radar a decade ago, the harshness of his subject was in the show’s title: “1915: Bloodshed and Opulence.” 2010-01-25T19:11:00Z

A onetime fixture of New York’s avant-garde music circles, he had been evicted from his East Village apartment and largely dropped off the radar. 28 Years After His Death, a Composer Gets a Publishing Deal 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Cloud River Mountain” combines Chinese folk, pop and contemporary music idioms with Bang on a Can’s trademark elements of minimalism and other postmodern and avant-garde styles. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

What's left out are the extremes: popular and so-called "genre" stories — romance, thriller, science fiction — and experimental, avant-garde stories. '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

He fashioned line-art and caricatures for The Dial, an avant-garde literary journal published in Greenwich Village. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z

With “Einstein,” the fantasy is the return to that bohemian, avant-garde New York, so full of excitement and possibility. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Tries to Recapture a New York Era 2012-09-21T22:25:18Z

When Frank Castorf, the avant-garde German director responsible for this confounding concept , took the stage with his production team, almost the entire audience, it seemed, erupted with loud, prolonged boos. At Bayreuth, Boos and Dropped Jaws 2013-08-01T10:42:00Z

Radicals of the mid-20th-century avant-garde did not wait long after Bartok’s death in 1945 to savage some of his final works. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian celebrities gather outside Moscow court to demand director's release 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Inspiring me to claim intergalactic space within the avant-garde, his symmetrical arrow of time created the conditions for Irreversible Entanglements to continue in his sonic tradition with improv. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

But don’t let the sensory overload eclipse a more serene, sophisticated side that’s defined by lush landscapes, art galleries, avant-garde design shops and low-key bars. 36 Hours in Macau 2012-11-04T04:00:23Z