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 ...

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center will open the new Irene and Richard Frary Gallery in October with an exhibition of rare avant-garde works by artists throughout the European continent, ...

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 ...

Cubism, impressionism, expressionism and... Is there anything else? Many artistic currents did not achieve such renown, but were undoubtedly central to the development of 20th-century avant-garde art.

The Avant/Garde Diaries is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. In each digital portrait, featured ...

In 1958, something of a conspiracy launched a new avant-garde movement that had the peculiar trait of having been defunct for seven years. Though never presented in clear terms, allusions are made to ...

Released under his avant-garde nom de plume, Mad King Edmund, Pettersen's new Happening: A Movement in 12 Acts is a politicized — if not overtly political — operetta that references the free jazz ...

That arrow, which has been temporarily reinstalled by the Albright-Knox as part of its mammoth exhibition about the avant-garde spirit of Buffalo in the 1970s, could be seen as a small opening salvo ...

Jacqueline de Jong, c. 1977 (image courtesy Ortuzar Projects, New York) Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, celebrated for her contributions to painterly figuration and for her role in Europe's ...

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 ...