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...father, André Gregory, veteran avant-garde director and recent film star (My Dinner with André), gives a mannered and actorish performance that somehow works perfectly: he has exactly the fussy, studied quality of a paterfamilias of a bygone...
...Jackie's stunt attracts the attention of Terry Lambert, a poprock mogul, who books her and her band, the Wombats, to appear on television. His show, "Wow," is a scathing parody of Britain's "Top of the pops" an actual weekly music show that makes "American Bandstand" look positively avant garde...
...20th century life in 78 segments, lasting six hours and taking two evenings to perform. Wagnerian in its scope, Carrollian in its absurdist wit, Carsonian in its deadpan, stand-up-comic timing, Anderson's work is the biggest, most ambitious and most successful example to date of the avant-garde hybrid known as performance...
...come two radical settings of Wagner. German avant-garde Film Maker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's 4½-hour Parsifal is a heavily symbolic interpretation that, among other extraordinary devices, uses the composer's own face as a set. French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau's complete The Ring of the Nibelung (starting Jan. 17 on PBS with a documentary and continuing a week later with Das Rheingold) is a brash, iconoclastic view that sets the four-opera cycle in the mid-19th century, when Wagner wrote it. The videotaped Bayreuth Ring succeeds triumphantly, while...
Octavio Paz, 68, is one of Mexico's most distinguished avant-garde writers, critics and poets. He is best known for The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), a classic work that has explained Mexico to foreigners, and to many Mexicans, for more than a generation. In the following piece for TIME, Paz assesses Mexico's complex, often tortured relationship with its overpowering northern neighbor...