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...seeing with these collectives - only with much larger bases, and nowhere near the media and communication sophistication," says Groux. In some ways the movement harks back to the early 20th century absurdist art of the Dadaists in places like Zurich and Paris. Like the Dadaists, modern day avant-gardistes work in small groups and set out to shock. But they also want to change France. (See pictures of the expansion of Paris...
Carrie Foster, a second-year graduate student at SCI-Arc, L.A.'s avant-garde architectural academy (and a friend of Case's from their undergraduate days at UC Berkeley), is working on the truck several days a week for the summer. In her time on the project, she has come to view Coolhaus less as an ice cream truck and more as an architectural installation. "The truck arrives at a destination, and it creates a whole new atmosphere," she explains. "We'll show up in a parking lot, and that leads to a gathering of people in a parking...
Despite all the comings and goings, Cubao X stands as a stronghold of hip, culture-savvy, creative Manila - most conspicuously on Friday and Saturday nights, when avant-garde DJ sets, indie-rock gigs, poetry readings, independent-movie screenings and art-show openings spring up as if spontaneously. Yet even without an event on the cards, the compound's motley venues offer plenty of diversions. It's hard not to find joy within the expansive Grand Thrift House, tel: (63) 920 962 3079, run by a family of antique and curio collectors - expect vintage Elvis posters, brick-sized cell phones...
...Avant-Garde dance had little to do with symbolism. "You see a chair strapped on my back," Merce Cunningham, the American modernist choreographer who died on July 26 at 90, mused to TIME in 1960. "Can't we just say, 'How strange'?" Nary an envelope went unpushed during his nearly seven decades of creating and performing dance masterpieces...
Early in the 1880s, when his paintings were being excluded from the official salons, Ensor co-founded an alliance of Belgian avant-gardists. Les Vingt - the Twenty - held an annual salon of its own that solicited work from foreign artists including Monet, Renoir and Whistler. In 1887, Georges Seurat contributed nothing less than A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, a tour de force of early modern art. Properly dazzled, a good number of the Twenty became converts to Seurat's pointillism. This was too much for Ensor. He had already dismissed the Impressionists. Who cared about capturing fugitive sunlight when...