avant-garde

His approach was unique; he took the grandeur and majesty of the Duke Ellington Orchestra sax section, updated that sound, and infused it with bluesy grit and a gruff, avant-garde crankiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

“How do we make fun of it in an avant-garde, punk, radical way? How do we poke holes at it?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

"Throughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction, and poetry," it said.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

But she persevered, and during her 16 years in New York became a prominent name in the avant-garde world.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Nor do I know whether accepting the lesson has placed me in the rear or in the avant-garde.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

The troupe’s co-founders, Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, are serious artists whose shrewd approach and mischievous creative drive combine elements of European and American avant-gardes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

“The era of avant-gardes and exploration being definitively over,” this doyen of the avant-garde proclaims, perhaps sardonically, “what follows is the era of perpetual return, consolidation, citation.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2019

She has been rightly noticed by other artistic avant-gardes, and has collaborated with electronic composers and been commissioned by choreographers.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2017

It was, as art historian Kristine Stiles has noted, multicultural and multiracial, with more women than most avant-gardes before it.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2012

Mott thinks that punk has been misrepresented since, both by rock historians who have over-intellectualised its meaning and context, and by curators who over-emphasise its artistic links to previous avant-gardes.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010