So let’s stop with the “avant-garde” this, “postmodern” that, “post-avant” this or “post-postmodern” that. I have never gotten into Lou Reed. He was of another generation.

Art World Art Bites: How ‘Avant Garde’ Became an Art Term ‘Avant-garde’ describes art that radically pushes past the established values of society to explore uncharted territory.

Chaim Soutine, Le Village, 1923. (Getty) The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions, oscillating between excitement at its glamour and scorn at its pretensions.

WOMAN. FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE of the 1970s continues at Mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna) through September 3.

Shay Mitchell, aka Emily Fields on Pretty Little Liars, has done it again — wooed us with her fashion choice. Now, Shay Mitchell’s nude avant-garde frock is pure perfection. As PopSugar has ...