Some of you art enthusiasts and literature lovers might already be familiar with the term “Avant-Garde”. Others may have seen it here and there, with the word looking a bit intimidating. Like many ...

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem. By Clay Risen Marjorie Perloff, whose ...

Editors’ Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. I am sick of the term “avant-garde,” a European invention that has been presided over and ...

Editors' Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. Take your pulse, Reader: calculate the population breakdown in your Facebook feeds, of your ...

While Yekaterinburg’s avant-garde architecture is the city’s hallmark, and Moscow’s avant-garde is the subject of arguments, in Saint Petersburg the prominence of the style and its influence are ...