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 ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from 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 ...

José Sabogal, Cover design of Amauta vol. 4, no. 26, September-October 1929, magazine, 9 15/16 x 6 15/16 in., Archivo José Carlos Mariátegui, Lima, Peru (all images courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art) ...

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 ...

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, ...

A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art movements that sought to reinvent the field. By Orlando Whitfield Orlando ...

Avant-garde and revolution in twentieth-century Chinese art -- Academicism and the amateur avant-garde in the post-cultural revolution period (1979-1984) -- The map of the '85 avant-garde movement -- ...

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 ...