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NEXT WAVE/NEXT DOOR. The Brooklyn Academy of Music's supersmart, avant-garde Next Wave Festival presents four theater and dance troupes from Montreal, all of them attuned to BAM's exploration of new forces in art. Through...
...great divide in American jazz took place after World War II, with the emergence of the bebop movement, spearheaded by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie ("Bird") Parker. By the '60s, bebop had largely given way to experimental avant-garde styles. When fusion took over in the '70s -- although some musicians were still playing earlier styles -- many jazz fans began to bemoan the death of a great American tradition...
KAZIMIR MALEVICH, 1878-1935, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The biggest U.S. retrospective yet of a brilliant, protean member of the Russian avant- garde, too long shrouded in Soviet ideological disfavor. Through...
Watson said that ORGASM was originally founded two years ago with the purpose of bringing to the forefront the work of experimental and avant garde artists in film, some of which were banned...
...Film Festival and now in theatrical release. Four TV commercials for Obsession perfume. A 50-minute video, Industrial Symphony No. 1, featuring a dwarf, prom teens, a floating topless lady, a skinned deer and ethereal warbler Julee Cruise singing from a car trunk; it's Lynch's most brazenly avant-garde work. If that's not enough, how about a weekly David Lynch comic strip called The Angriest Dog in the $ World? Or a book of his own photographs? Or a flurry of Twin Peaks merchandise, including the unexpurgated Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, written by Lynch's daughter Jennifer...