avant-garde

The Nobel Committee lauded Carson for her distinctive style that mixes classical scholarship, lyric poetry and avant-garde translation, often reimagining ancient Greek mythology and philosophy through a personal, contemporary feminist lens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

After studying art in Japan, Kusama moved to the United States in the late 1950s, and -- encouraged and helped by Georgia O'Keeffe -- quickly made a splash in New York's avant-garde scene.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Pintscher then served as its artist-in-residence, during which he oversaw a stab at the avant-garde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Albert Ayler was an amazing, avant-garde saxophonist known only to the most die-hard jazz enthusiasts.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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

It took many years, and a model of art history that stopped seeing the past as a mere succession of avant-gardes, before Klossowski finally won attention in Europe as a visual artist.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015

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