Amid Ghosts of the Red Guard, the Avant-Garde Now Blooms
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A refurbished 1950's-era weapons factory in China has become a haven for avant-garde art.
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"The R.A.F.: The Myth," inspired by the radical leftist Red Army Faction, has opened in Berlin amid debate over the romanticization of terrorism.
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A familiar foreboding has set in, akin to the disintegration at the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989.
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At the Venice Biennale, architects stare into a windowed, dystopian future, trapped within stylistic confines of their own making.
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The ending of border checks between the former communist states of eastern Europe and Western neighbours on Friday carries a potent symbolism for those who for long lived behind the Iron Curtain and were then made to feel like "second class citizens" in a united Europe.
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As the fighting in Iraq drags on, a new genre of film is emerging and evolving into something vastly different from the classic war movie canon established by previous generations.
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Is the mainstream finally ready for the unsettling art of this perennial outsider?
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What began as a grass-roots experiment to beautify unsightly traffic-signal boxes around Stamford, Conn., has become an unexpectedly impressive public art collection.
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Martin Puryearâs sculptures, as seen at the Museum of Modern Art, balance between the geometric and the organic with Zen aplomb.
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Films use artwork the way they have long used music: to set a mood.
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ÂSuper Vision,Â the largest of the four inaugural shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, has an ambitious theme, but could use a little more curatorial daring.
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The Armory Show 2007 feels more consolidated, more vacuum-packed, more well tuned than ever.
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The Museum of Modern Artâs show is a touching, sometimes melancholy portrayal of Russiaâs architectural ferment and the brutality with which it was ultimately suppressed.
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Armed with nothing more than plastic cameras based on Soviet-era models, the followers of Lomography are spawning their own revolution.
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A major new exhibition traces the decline of absolute monarchy and rise of the Enlightenment that swept North America and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, and shows how portraits reflected the revolutionary changes.
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The Ashcan artists were a lively bunch of provincial rebels who created Americaâs first true avant-garde, and their chapter in the book of art history is still fascinating.
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He's well into his 80s now, but the work continues for avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas. His latest project: Producing one film each day in 2007, blending new footage with his enormous archive of film shot during the heyday of the underground New York art scene. A Wired News interview by Jason Silverman.