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, ...

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 ...

As summer comes to a close, that can only mean one thing for the local maker community here in Northeast Ohio. It’s the start of fall/winter festival season. The Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show Avon Fall ...

The Mimesis Documentary Festival returns to Boulder’s Dairy Arts Center and streaming screens everywhere for its third year, from Tuesday, August 2, through Sunday, August 7. The film festival, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...