Why the public shuns the avant-garde and what to do about it. John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of ...

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Avant-garde, now 16, is also a basketball player, and it’s not an activity she takes lightly. She’s already a Guinness World Record holder for the “most bounce juggles in one minute using ...

Avant-garde music legend John Cale talks about his album 'Mercy' John ... I mean, I sort of fell in love with hip-hop. It has so many lively approaches to songwriting. Hip-hop is the avant-garde ...

‘How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art’ by Morgan Falconer. Art historian Morgan Falconer is bored with contemporary art, and it’s easy to empathize, said Michael ...

But most movies we see in theaters don’t explore the avant-garde in any fashion whatsoever. Conventional wisdom says it’s “too risky” from a financial perspective. But not for documentaries.

At 80, the musician who helped found the Velvet Underground before a prolific run as a producer and solo artist is releasing a new LP and mentoring new generations of avant-garde creators.

Stalin had banned abstract art years earlier, in 1932, making it hard for avant-garde artists to continue unless they transitioned to the only permitted art form: propaganda paintings in the style of ...

But being avant-garde, Mr. Falconer reminds us, meant going yet further and abandoning art as traditionally conceived. “Humanity will not lose much by missing art,” the painter Piet Mondrian ...