Though portraiture is one of the oldest and most traditional art genres, it has consistently proven a potent starting point for artistic experimentation. At Paris gallery Hélène Bailly, the exhibition ...

As summer comes to a close, that can only mean one thing for the local maker community here in Northeast Ohio. It’s the start of fall/winter festival season. The Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show Avon Fall ...

1973 found rock at its most unpredictable. Prog, glam, space rock and the avant-garde collided in bizarre, brilliant albums ...

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, ...

This past November, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, sponsored a three-day “international” conference entitled “Avant-Garde Art and Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of Modernism.” As ...

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 three ...

Has avant-garde fashion gone the way of the hobble skirt? It would seem so at a time when the biggest names are playing it safe, few young designers are touting unorthodox clothing styles and ...