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...peasants are stealing your artwork!" I yelled to Yu Xiao Yu. I had just run halfway across a tiny, muddy island on the outskirts of Nanjing, dodging several avant-garde sculptures and art installations along the way."Really?" asked the artist, as his round face broke into a smile. "That's great!" A group of fellow Nanjing artists laughed and pointed at the leather-faced farmer in a worn Mao jacket who, along with his wife and son, was cheerfully scooping armfuls of seaweed from Yu's installation: a giant ditch in the shape of a gingerbread man, which...
...forms, including comix, have their avant-garde, places where the rules and traditions are bent or left behind in exploring the possibilities of the medium. These journeys often leave most of the audience behind, but occasionally an artist brings us along and comes up with just the right amount of edginess and entertainment. Two new books, one from the U.S. and one from the Netherlands, succeed in this...
...tomato beignet. Instead, enigmatic descriptions such as "a flying visit to an Alpine cheese factory" make the diners even more curious about what's soon to hit their palettes. It's all very reminiscent of the exotic dinner parties planned by the Futurists, the early 20th century avant-garde group, who concocted multi-sensory meals such as the "tactile dinner party" during which guests might feast in the dark on Polyrhythmic Salad (undressed lettuce leaves, dates and grapes) and Magic Food (small bowls filled with balls of caramel-coated items such as candied fruits, bits of raw meat, mashed banana...
...work, Classical Graffiti, an album of pop-classic arrange-ments by the Planets, he was careful to credit the ori-ginal composers. He even titled the minute's silence that preceded the bonus tracks One Minute's Silence and credited it to Batt/Cage - a cheeky reference to the late avant-garde composer, right, John Cage's famous, silent work of 1952, 4' 33". Cage's publisher, Peters Edition, got the joke but filed for a share of the copyright dues anyway. While Batt was still "in hysterics", his label, EMI, had already coughed up a first installment...
...salvation of haute couture. After all, if you can afford a $20,000 dress these days, you should be laughing. Yohji Yamamoto showed his ready-to-wear collection during haute- couture week, months ahead of October's pr?t-a-porter shows. It's the latest in a string of avant-garde moves from a very avant-garde designer. He also announced he'd be designing a line of clothing to go with the shoes he produces for Adidas. No wonder the party to celebrate his new book, Talking to Myself, was packed with admiring designers. For the last 10 years...