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Gustave Courbet has been seen for most of this century as the patriarch of the avant-garde ideal, a man both embodying his time and working in defiance of bourgeois taste: in short, a hero. He was born in 1819 the son of a farmer, lived as a socialist, and died in 1877 exiled in Switzerland, his paintings deemed unexhibitable in France on political grounds. In the end, Courbet was financially crushed by a judgment imposed on him by the French government of more than 300 million francs -- precisely the cost of re-erecting the Vendome Column, the imperial symbol...
...opening included the world premiere of Carlo Gozzi's avant garde play, "The Serpent Woman," followed by a banquet for the ART's guests and cast...
...theater has brought many notable actors, directors and musicians to Boston for world premieres of their productions, including minimalist composer Philip Glass, Talking Heads singer David Byrne and avant garde director Robert Wilson...
During its 10 years in Cambridge, the ART has brought in avant garde and other non-traditional types of drama, said Henry L. Lussier, who also works in public relations. "We've brought in a kind of theater to Boston that hadn't been here before," he said. The ART complements Boston's Huntington company, which puts on more traditional works, he said. "We've created a nice niche for ourselves here in Boston...
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM 1915-1925, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A survey of war-weary "second-generation" expressionists forging an avant-garde in search of a new art and a better society. Through...