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 ...

Inspired by the work of avant-garde Italian architects and designers Ettore Sottsass and Gio Ponti (among others), postmodern style combines a riot of stripes and geometric motifs in a ...

Abbott was an integral part of New York City's mid-century avant-garde art scene, but her better-known male colleagues have long dominated the movement's legacy ...

The Hollywood actor looks back on the experimental performances that shaped him at the Venice Theater Biennale.

Alexandra Keller specializes in the American Western; cinema and the postmodern, avant-garde and experimental film; and the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic and cultural ...

Underground films, transvestites, hippies and freaks, businessmen and secretaries checking out the other side of life, ...

From singer-songwriters to avant-garde jazz; old faves, new voices, and live performances. With host Derk Richardson.

Avant-garde albums have historically been pretty inaccessible to mainstream audiences. If a collection of music is too weird, a lot of listeners will dismiss it. However, I think the following ...

“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 ...