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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Occasionally an exhibition is as art-historically groundbreaking as it is visually arresting. Rarely, however, will it also force scholars to rewrite the origin story of European modernism. But such ...