Avant Garde

Experiments in Opera: Under Deconstruction

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Aaron Siegel, Jason Cady, Avant-Garde, Brother Brother, Contemporary Classical, Opera, Brooklyn, Arts, Happiness Is the Problem, Borges and the Other, Baroque Music, Renaissance Music, New York City, Matthew Welch, Experiments in Opera, Roulette, Arts News

This seemingly evasive conceit reflects a decidedly nuanced approach to the storied, well-trodden path that is Opera -- openly acknowledging more recent "experimental" precedents even while turning further back in operatic history for creative inspiration.

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Royal College of Art: Meet the Students (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Rca, Tariq Mahmoud, Craftsmanship, Design, Knitwear, Benedicte Holmboe, School, London, Millinery, Ma Fashion, Show, Avant Garde, Art, Graduate, Jewellery, Rajinder Johal, Accessories, Footwear, Hiroaki Kanai, crane.tv, Louise Van Hauen, Royal College, Hannah Morgan, Video, Arts News

Those who wonder why London continues to be such an important influencer on the global creative industry are no longer left guessing. With a three-p...

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Hahn-Bin: Juilliard Meets Studio 54

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Hahn-Bin, Juilliard, Pop Art, Cindy Sherman, Experimental Classical, Judy Garland, Culture, Edith Piaf, Andy Warhol, Classical Music, Pop Music, Video, Avant-Garde, Violin, Yohji Yamamoto, The Tree of Life, Fashion, Arts News

Hahn-Bin is an exquisite melting pot of talent and style, of the classical and the strange. A prodigy violinist Pop Art icon, he is what happens when ...

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A Man Of Few Notes

Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Avant Garde, Video, John Cage, Juilliard School, Avant Garde Music, Minimal Composer, Minimal Art, Julliard, Avant-Garde Art, Merce Cunningham, John Cage 4'33", Arts News

John Cage may seem like a strange choice for a series of tribute concerts at Juilliard, but those leading the effort say the avant-garde composer is r...

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Looking Closer At Absence

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Avant Garde, John Cage, African American History, Miles David, Jazz, Modernism, Art History, Postmodernism, Jennie Jones, Jones, Jennie C. Jones, Sound Art, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Arts News

Jennie C. Jones' works address absence. Yet instead of treating absence as pure lack, Jones explores its texture, its logic, its intention, its residu...

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Westway Ho! Stewart Home at Performa 11

Paul McRandle | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Literature, Avant Garde, Stewart Home, Performa, Culture News

Home is difficult to capture: A revolutionary bootboy trapped in the postmodern eighties, he issued an ostensible manifesto on Neoism, reinvented psychogeography, and proceeded to spin off so many mythologies that for a time the man himself seemed unlikely to have ever lived.

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PHOTOS: Do-Ho Suh Exhibition Constructs Homes Which Deconstruct Space

Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Korean Art, New York Art Gallery, Sculpture, Architecture, Do-Ho Suh, Do Ho Suh, Home Within Home, Avant Garde, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Space, Suh, Lehmann Maupin, Contemporary Art, Memory, Risd, New York Art, Arts News

In his upcoming exhibition 'Home Within Home,' Do-Ho Suh illuminates the physical and abstract associations which make a home a home, by constructing ...

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WATCH: Artist Creates Dreamy Labyrinth In A Shanghai Mall

Posted 11.22.2011

What do you get when you combine post-structuralist theory, Taoist philosophy and a Shanghai mall? 'Beyond Infinity,' a disorienting journey through m...

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Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway #6, "Hungry Like the Wolf"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Olivier Green, Reality TV, Project Runway, Nina Garcia, Drama, Bryant Park, Fashion News, Harlem School of the Arts, Swatch, Joshua Christensen, Michael Kors, Viktor Luna, Mood, Tim Gunn, Joshua McKinley, Entertainment News, House of DeréOn, Becky Ross, Bertzilla, Beyoncé, Avant-Garde, Anthony Ryan Auld, Heidi Klum, Style News, Kenneth Cole, Fashion Week, Bryce Black, Project Runway Season 9, Bert Keeter, Recap, Kimberly Goldson, Laura Kathleen, Ombre, Zanna Roberts Rassi, Anya Ayoung-Chee, Naked Cowboy, Alcide, Trueblood, Entertainment News

This week's challenge, informs La Klum cheerfully, has to do with going back to school to further their education.

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Boris Lurie's Perverse Pin-ups And The NO!art Movement

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Art Market, Holocaust Survivor, Gertrude Stein, Avant-Garde, No! Art, Boris Lurie, Nazi, Holocaust, Postmodernism, Pop Art, Feminist Art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Selected Pinups, Naked, Pin-Ups, World War II, Nsfw, Sexy, Arts News

"Suitcase" 1964, Boris Lurie, Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Foundation Only if it had arrived in a suitcase could the entrance of renegade Boris Luri...

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Tyler Shields Paints With the Blood of the Rich and Famous (Video)

Nick Kreiss | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Tyler Shields, Los Angeles, Celebrities, Avant Garde, Art, Blood Painting, Blood, La Around Town, La Arts, Los Angeles News

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Hannah Marshall, A London Designer, Brings Back Power Dressing (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

StyleLikeU | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Stylelikeu, Avant Garde, Personal Style, Fashion Designer, Fashion, London, Hannah Marshall, Style News

Hannah has a quiet strength that is conveyed in her love of all black ("black demands respect") and the powerful shapes that define her as a forceful ...

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Art Therapy: Art Displayed In New Children's Hospital Made By Kids

Posted 05.25.2011

Art is not only creative, but also a therapeutic process. When the new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital opened earlier this year in Grand Rapids, Michi...

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Exhibition Spotlight: Artist Dimitri Kozyrev Explores Ruin, Geometry, And Stalin

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Stalin, El Lissitzsky, New York City, Ussr, Dimitri Kozyrev, ARt Exhibition, Painting, Lost Edge, Geometry, Painterly, Suprematism, Benrimon Contemporary, Avant-Garde, Malevich, Last One, Slidefullscreen, Landscape, Arts News

WHAT: Last One WHO: Dimitri Kozyrev WHEN: March 10, 2011 - April 1, 2011 Opening reception on March 10, 2011 from 5-9pm WHERE: Benrimon Cont...

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HuffPost Exclusive: Al Di Meola's "Strawberry Fields," Plus A Conversation With Grammy Nominee Laurie Anderson

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Braden King, Miral, Julian Schnobel, Experimental Music, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Grammy, Barack Obama, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Avant Garde, Tom Hodgkinson, Al Di Meola, Davis Byrne, Oprah, Geroge W. Bush, Lou Reed, Jerry Springer, Entertainment News

Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, David Byrne... there are certain established artists whose works seem very fresh no matter which era they were created or played in.

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American Museums: All Talk, No Walk

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Avant Garde, Hitler, Moca, Gustave Courbet, LA Culture, Alfaro Siquerios, The Bathers, World War II, National Portrait Gallery, Picasso, Getty, Salon, Canada, Arts News

We Americans have become so sensitive, so wimpy, that we are in danger of ending up with art that avoids controversy at all costs. The name for such "neutered" art? Irrelevant art. Or, simply, bad art.

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2010: The 100th Anniversary of the Year Paris Revolutionized the Arts

Perry Miller Adato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cubism, Cafe, Classical, Modernism, Pbs, Picasso, Cocteau, Montparnasse, Lynn Garafola, Perry Miller Adato, Music, Culture, Paris, 100th Anniversary, Art, Avant-Garde, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Ballets Russe, 1910, Paint, Early 20th Century, Montmartre, Dance, Noel Riley Fitch, Stravinsky, Braques, Video, Arts News

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LACMA Resnick Pavilion After Party Hosted by the Avant-Garde This Weekend

Caroline M. Roman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avant Garde, Los Angeles Art, Lacma, Bcam, Los Angeles News

LACMA has many councils, clubs and boards you can join, but the Avant-Garde is of particular interest to us here at The Truffle. Set up as a feeder g...

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PHOOTS: 'Decoding' Avante-Garde Cuisine From Around The World With Alinea's Grant Achatz

LIFE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ferran Adria, Avant Garde, El Bulli, The Fat Duck, Grant Achatz, Heston Blumenthal, Avant Garde Cooking, Alinea, Wylie Dufresne, Avante Garde Cuisine, Wd-50, Molecular Gastronomy, Food News

Grant Achatz's mission is simple: He wants to make you throw out your preconceptions of what restaurants do and what meals should taste like. Achatz, ...

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Broadway Miracle Sighted on PBS -- South Pacific Permitted Full Use of Real Instruments

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

South Pacific, based on a collection of stories by James Michener, is a multifaceted piece. The plot is the thing in this play, although it is loaded with the requisite number of hit tunes.

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A Big Win For Experimental Poetry

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Avant Garde, Transcendental Studies, Writing, Postmodernism, Postmodern, Keith Waldrop, Verse, Poetry, John Lundberg, Communication, Healthy Living News

If you read a review of Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," this year's winner of the National Book Award, there's a good chance it will include the word "postmodern" or "avant-garde.

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