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 ...

As chosen by an American playwright and two European directors. By Juan A. Ramírez What defines avant-garde theater is as nebulous as its origin story, but most scholars point to 19th-century France, ...

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 ...

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 art, one ...

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 ...

At an earlier iteration of that fair, after perusing the art on display, Morgan Falconer, an art historian and Sotheby’s Institute of Art faculty member, found that much of the work trading in the red ...