Avant garde art

Georges Maciunas /Fluxus When an artist named George Maciunas looked up the word "flux" in the dictionary in 1960, he found seventeen definitions. "Flux" can be used as a verb, an adjective, or a noun. The multiplicity of the word made it the perfect term for the art movement he was in the proces

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The Monument to the Third International was a grand un-built monumental building. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headq…

The Bolsheviks understood the value of the new art of cinema, even Vladimir Lenin himself considered that it is “the most important of the a...

Funke repeatedly experimented with mirroring, transparencies and reflections – scrutinizing the perception of the viewer, some series no longer working with objects but solely with their shadows.

Curator Gina Schroeder Spanish-born Laino Bilbao had no idea she would end up working in fashion. Starting in fine arts without a huge interest in clothes, she found inspiration in using the body as a canvas. After receiving her BFA in Design and

A Bonhams auction this week revealed the energy and versatility of British printmakers from the Grosvenor School and avant-garde.

As a pioneer of modernist art in Argentina, Emilio Pettoruti (1892-1971) created an uproar with his scandalous avant-garde exhibit held at t...

The works of this great artist, photographer, and designer grace probably every 20th-century art museum in the world.