Though such structured movements are less common in the contemporary art world, “avant-garde” continues to apply to art or literature that challenges the zeitgeist through form, concept or both.

Connecticut Modern: Art, Design and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960 celebrates this notable period and shines a light on Connecticut’s critical role in 20th-century art and design. The exhibition ...

In an inaugural event aimed at attracting a younger audience, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla hosted the Avant Garde Ball on May 3. The sold-out party featured DJs playing ...

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 ...

The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions ... and aesthetic currents shaping the development of modern art in London; these chapters are rich and thickly documented ...

“Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape” at the Art Institute will showcase more than 75 works from this time by Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard and ...

The relationship of the Church with contemporary art - and with the avant-gardes - has not always been constant and smooth, indeed. Only with Paul VI, at the end of the 1960s and after the Second ...

David Rosenthal’s little book about Richard Wagner’s influence on European art is an introduction to ... the Pre-Raphaelite painters, who were famous for their reactionary medievalism, as members of ...

And “like all good art, it ultimately raises more questions than it answers.” “Falconer’s complaints will ring true for How ...