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, ...

Has avant-garde fashion gone the way of the hobble skirt? It would seem so at a time when the biggest names are playing it safe, few young designers are touting unorthodox clothing styles and ...

The extraordinary festival of formal inventiveness that has dominated the architectural world since the 1980s—a festival that was initially stimulated by opposition to the historicist Postmodernism of ...

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 ...

Roosevelt needed to get America ready to fight and he already knew that his efforts to help unemployed Americans find themselves in social realist art would have to be abandoned. American art had to ...

From Rei Kawakubo to Yohji Yamamoto, the country’s fashion pioneers continue to revolutionize global style. Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over 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 See more of our coverage in ...