His new book, “How To Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art,” proposes that a solution to this problem may be found among the enfant terribles of the early 20th century ...

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

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“All the wealth that nurtures it seems only to increase its aura of power and mystique, and hence its distance from us,” Mr. Falconer writes in “How to Be Avant-Garde,” a group biography ...

Jonas Mekas, one of the most important figures in avant-garde film, was part of the underground movement in the ’60s pushing the boundaries of censorship (and legality) with his films The Brig ...

WITH HIM THIS MORNING. HE JOINS US FROM THE SPEED MUSEUM. OPEN NOW AT THE SPEED MUSEUM IS PART TWO OF THEIR BLACK AVANT GARDE SERIES. THIS EDITION HONORS WILLIAM DUFFY. WHEN WILLIAM M DUFFY WAS A ...

The painting is among the works featured in “Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Saint Louis Art Museum Share Few names stand taller in art ...