Word: avante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Filmmaker Phil Solomon, a Boston area independent director, will present his 1979-80 work The Passage of the Bride at the Carpenter Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. Considered to be one of the foremost avant-garde documentary filmmakers, Solomon will speak on his creative vision after the six-minute screening...
NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL. If the avant garde has any tradition, this is it. The % Brooklyn Academy of Music's seventh annual festival of cutting-edge music and dance features performance artist Laurie Anderson's new solo piece, Empty Places, and a musical tribute to Andy Warhol by Velvet Underground veterans. Through...
...Krazy Kat" a mouse repeatedly throws a brick at a cat, who constantly forgives the mouse for his attacks, Krazy Kat loves the mouse, but a dog cop loves Krazy Kat and arrests the mouse every time he throws a brick. The strip has long been acclaimed for its avant garde landscape and subtle humor. If Breathed is trying to revive the themes of "Krazy Kat," he should stop now before he embarrasses himself...
...show seemed to break new ground almost weekly: pushing the boundaries of permissible language and subject matter, rejuvenating political satire, breaking the "fourth wall" to make fun of the TV medium itself. It helped launch or boost the careers of comics like Steve Martin and Andy Kaufman, gave avant-garde rock an outlet on mainstream TV and made the world safe for David Letterman...
Hwang is keenly aware of the F. Scott Fitzgerald dictum that American lives have no second acts, that youthful success leads to mid-life burnout and embitterment. A few months after M. Butterfly opened, he and avant-garde composer Philip Glass mounted 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, a multimedia oddity that proved too abstruse for the masses yet too tabloid for intellectuals; it centers on an apparent close encounter with aliens from space. In multiple productions it showed scant commercial potential. In addition to the screenplay for M. Butterfly, which Hwang will write himself, he is working on three other...