Word: avante
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...Tokyo, where fashion is taken as seriously as politics, Junya Watanabe's collections spark more scrutiny than the latest governmental bailout plan. Maybe it's because while the parliament mires the country in the same old, same old, Watanabe and the avant-garde designer pack he runs with--Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo--make Japan, and design aficionados worldwide, try to envision what is to come...
Lynes’ early friendship with Gertrude Stein helped him find a foothold in the Paris avant garde art world even before he took up professional photography...
...Your wife says she wants a Monet print from the Met, but don't you think she might actually be much happier with a Lichtenstein or a Warhol? We think so, too. Even after your visit to the gift shop, there's plenty to see at the Whitney, from avant-garde lawn sculptures to totally incomprehensible oil paintings. Note to party leaders: Please alert Museum staff well ahead of time in the event that John Ashcroft wishes to pay a visit. Staff will require at least a week for ordering and positioning special opaque draping materials...
...production budget is unusually generous, allowing him 60 actors, a choir and a 70-member orchestra. All that manpower has created an unclassifiable theatrical experience. "It's not a drama, or a Peking opera, or modern dance, or Western opera," says Gao. It's all of the above, an avant-garde East-West fusion that tells the story of Huineng, a seventh-century Buddhist monk whose unnerving autonomy mirrors that of the author...
Matmos kicked off the first of three workshops, attended by a handful of Harvard students, with a lecture on the history of musique concrete, the avant-garde movement that used spliced tape loops to restructure found sounds into full-length compositions. “I wanted some way to respond to the class with sound, but you can only go so far without it becoming a bit gimmicky,” Daniel said. The talk was bolstered by listening to the duo’s favorite recordings, which ranged from former Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson’s work...