avant-garde

She championed new music and not just the stellar locals, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, but also the avant-garde and world music no one else gave the time of day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Later experiments with advertising posters, which presented test printings as stand-alone works of art, establish connections among Duchamp’s Readymades, contemporaneous avant-garde movements like Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme, and future creators like Jeff Koons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

His approach was unique; he took the grandeur and majesty of the Duke Ellington Orchestra sax section, updated that sound, and infused it with bluesy grit and a gruff, avant-garde crankiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

"Throughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction, and poetry," it said.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The art establishment finds these artists too avant-garde in their use of light, a bright palette, visible brushstrokes, unusual composition, and strange angles.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Almost a third of the works here are by women, which, for a show of historical avant-gardes, counts as a lot.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020

“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.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2019

She has been rightly noticed by other artistic avant-gardes, and has collaborated with electronic composers and been commissioned by choreographers.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2017

It was, as art historian Kristine Stiles has noted, multicultural and multiracial, with more women than most avant-gardes before it.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2012

Mott thinks that punk has been misrepresented since, both by rock historians who have over-intellectualised its meaning and context, and by curators who over-emphasise its artistic links to previous avant-gardes.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010