Word: avante
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...suspended over every aspect of the publication. Bookshelves sag with yellowing issues, and century-old, sepia-toned photographs of all-male editors hang above the fireplace, observing—from a bygone era—the activities of the publication today. This balance between revering history and promoting the avant-garde is what distinguishes the Advocate from other literary magazines and allows it to seek out the most innovative content...
...creative director of Street Culture. During this segment, the models alternated between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean street dance styles. In a high-point of the performance, the audience erupted in applause during a mock dance-off between male and female models. The student designs explored both traditional and avant-garde styles. Xinran Yuan ’10 used puffy textured fabrics which amplified her models’ figures. Helen Tsim ’10 created long, silky dresses that recalled high school proms. With the exception of one fall—an apparent consequence of a precarious pair of high...
...intimate, communal experience in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first weekend of April - the climactic one for the annual Humana Festival of New American plays. Still, nothing quite prepares you for an up-close-and-personal encounter with Under Construction, an experimental theater piece crafted by playwright Charles Mee and avant-garde director Anne Bogart. On a tiny stage littered with construction material, one actor opens the proceedings by telling the audience which scenes will be performed this evening - numbers 6, 79, 29, 22, 67 and so forth. "It seemed to us that these scenes, in this order, are wonderful...
...theme for the seemingly random theatrical assault that follows, it a bit too, well, all-purpose. But it serves. The play was inspired by the paintings of Norman Rockwell and the work of the avant-garde installation artist Jason Rhoades, and it's a witty, sometimes mystifying, often riveting mishmash of classic Americana and anarchic performance art. It opens with a recording of Bing Crosby singing "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," then slides into a series of Rockwellian scenes: a Thanksgiving dinner; a high school couple on a first date, accompanied by a recorded 1950s lesson in dating etiquette...
...future of graphic design: the politics and aesthetics of appropriation and the exact definition of “fair use.” Heller was joined by Nicholas Blechman, his successor at The New York Times Book Review and creator of the acclaimed fanzine, Nozone; Elliott Earls, an avant-garde graphic designer and professor at the Cranbrook Academy of Art; and the panel’s moderator, Kevin Grady, editor of the award-winning pop culture magazine Lemon. The panelists expressed contrary views on the subject, which sprung from generational as well as political differences. Heller, after a 35-year...