Five Fits With: Fashion Critic and Founder of StyleZeitgeist Eugene Rabkin

The avant-garde menswear expert fills us in on everything from the evolution of the industry to the necessity of holding on ...
Los Angeles Times

Building on his love of the avant-garde

After decades of fascination with avant-garde architecture, and decades of investment in low-end rentals, the parallel passions of East L.A. native Richard Gomez finally intersected when he ...
Salon

Zaila Avant-garde stands where Black children were once kept out

When Zaila Avant-garde, 14, won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on July 8, 2021, she became the first Black American to win in the competition’s history. Shalini Shankar, a scholar of spelling ...
The Diamondback

Meet the UMD student who was the first African American Scripps national spelling bee champion

Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American person to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the largest spelling bee ...
New York Magazine

9. Because the Avant-Garde Is Our Playpen

When Pipilotti Rist’s massive installation Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) opened at the Museum of Modern Art, nobody knew what to expect. The Swiss provocateur hoped that her circular couch, ...
Post-Bulletin

Peter Jensen: A real superhero walks among us in Zaila Avant-garde. Why do the fake ones get all the love?

We live in what might be the golden age of superheroes. The latest Marvel movie, “Black Widow,” earned big bucks on its opening last weekend, both streaming through Disney Plus and in person in ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Opinion: A real superhero walks among us in Zaila Avant-garde. Why do the fake ones get all the love?

We live in what might be the golden age of superheroes. The latest Marvel movie, “Black Widow,” earned big bucks on its opening last weekend, both streaming through Disney Plus and in person in ...