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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, ...

In 2016, Natalia Zabolotna, then director of the Kyiv-based art gallery Mystetskyi Arsenal, proposed naming Kyiv’s main ...

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center will open the new Irene and Richard Frary Gallery in October with an exhibition of rare avant-garde works by artists throughout the European continent, ...

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When art collecting brothers Ron and Roger Pollard purchased a handful of paintings at an online auction in 2004, they had no idea what they were in for. The pieces, bought from a seller in Germany, ...

In 1967, in the course of a visit to Moscow, I was entertained one evening in the apartment of a young man who seemed to know a lot about the life of art in the Soviet Union at that time. He may also ...

WITH HIM THIS MORNING. HE JOINS US FROM THE SPEED MUSEUM. OPEN NOW AT THE SPEED MUSEUM IS PART TWO OF THEIR BLACK AVANT GARDE SERIES. THIS EDITION HONORS WILLIAM DUFFY. WHEN WILLIAM M DUFFY WAS A ...

It’s been a strange season for me, I have to admit. That’s the only excuse I can think of for why, although I usually devour each quarterly issue of Jacobin as soon as I find it in my mailbox, it’s ...

The Industrial Arts Co-op's "Walking Stick" as photographed in the South Side's Brew House in the early 2000s. Pittsburgh native Sheila Ali grew up partly in Maine but returned in the late ’80s, and ...