Word: avante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that for the last 15 years every R.-and-B., hip-hop and dance record has been an electronic record," says U.S. techno pioneer Moby, who is white. "Then two white British guys [the Chemical Brothers] come along sampling hip-hop without the lyrics, and they're hailed as avant-garde...
...Museum of Fine Arts. This year the esteemed institution ditched Winslow Homer and went pop. The season opened with the potpourri contemporary art show, "Face and Figure," a conglomeration of New England artists and world-renowned avant-garde figures. Souls were sold for a Herb Ritts exhibit and Roy Lichtenstein offered his take on Chinese landscape painting...
...bleached skulls have become as emblematic of New Mexico as Edward Hopper's urban loners are of New York City. Also in Santa Fe, from June 3 through Aug. 16, is Santa Fe Stages: the International Theater Festival, for which the city will be host to everything from Canadian avant-gardists (a brochure warns of "brief nudity") to a women-in-drag version of Sherlock Holmes from Britain. Devotees of more traditional performing arts may want to venture north to the Taos Pueblo Powwow, running from July 11 through July 13. Some 45 to 50 Native American tribes will gather...
Harman took "a step beyond the most avant-guard revisions in the literature," Matory said...
...music is electronic, experimental and avant-garde. Songs can be over 15 minutes long," Moschella says. "This is one of the only places where you can hear this stuff...