War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

With its recent acquisition of 11 Japanese avant-garde photographic works last month, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden hopes to incorporate “an unprecedented critical history of the postwar ...

At 10 years old, the arts nonprofit Indexical is not only drawing consistent audiences to adventurous and avant-garde music, ...

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, ...

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY — BROOKLYN PLAYED A ROLE in a professor’s newly-published book about the interactions between artists and marginalized communities in post-Mao China. Chang Tan, Ph.D., associate ...

Willemijn Stokvis, the preeminent art historian on CoBrA, considers it “the last avant-garde movement of the 20th century.” This radical group, active from 1948 to 1951, named itself for the home ...

A man and a woman are squeezing into a large black sack. “Let’s roll around on the floor,” suggests the bloke. “Are you coming down?” she replies. And with that, like a stricken pantomime horse, a ...

A collection of Russian avant-garde art on display in the new exhibit I Found Malevich, in the Armory Denver now. Photo by Samuel Shaw The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

MADRID, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Ukrainian art has found a refuge in Madrid where a retrospective on the country's avant-garde in the early 20th century is showing works little known to the general public ...

The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky. will soon be opening a new exhibit in their “Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde” series. Starting June 28, the museum will be displaying the works of Louisville Ky.