Last week at City Winery, The Kitchen hosted its annual Spring Gala—a vibrant convergence of artists, patrons and cultural ...

Is contemporary art tired? Or are the critics just getting old? In a provocative essay for Harper’s this past December, art critic Dean Kissick spoke of a malaise in the world of contemporary ...

But such is the case with the aptly titled “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”—an enlightening, beautifully orchestrated show of some 110 paintings ...

T he birth of avant-garde art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries marked a profound shift in the artistic landscape. It was a rebellion against traditional conventions, fueled by the belief ...

J. Hoberman's 'Everything Is Now,' a survey of the 1960's avant-garde arts scene in NYC is a glorious blast from the past.

Named after Richard Frary, A&S '69, and his wife Irene, the 1,000-square-foot gallery features 75 works from the extensive collection of avant-garde art donated to Johns Hopkins by the Frarys. The ...

The Museum of Modern Art, NY / Kunstmuseum Basel A pioneering ... the show tells the story of an artist whom Reifert calls “a hub” of the avant-garde scene in the 1920s and ’30s, deeply ...

LATER, A COLLECTION OF DUFFY’S WORK IS BEING SHOWN AT THE SPEED ART MUSEUM AS PART OF THEIR BLACK AVANT GARDE PROGRAM. THE SHOW’S CURATOR, DOCTOR FARI NZINGA, DESCRIBES DUFFY’S WORK AS ...

The Golden Avant-Garde: Idolatry, Commercialism, and Art, by Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello, University Press of Virginia, 147 pp.; $17.50, paper The central conceit of this book ...

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