INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. ZAILA AVANT GARDE IS TAKING LIFE BY STORM, BREAKING GLASS CEILINGS AND CONQUERING GOALS LEFT AND RIGHT. NOW SHE’S IN HER FIRST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE AND SETTING HER SIGHTS NEARLY 239 ...

The Avant Garde Coffeehouse, upstairs in the French Moorish building at 2111 N. Prospect Ave. shone bright for six years, providing a home for musicians, poets and artists. After six years, it rocked ...

The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions, oscillating between excitement at its glamour and scorn at its pretensions. The term carries an association of being daring, ...

Editors' Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. What is “avant-garde poetry”? is a question long on answers, if short on consensus. On the one ...

Reading about the history of Polish avant-garde theatre in the first decades of the 20th century, one might get the impression that the work of women was, at the time, almost non-existent. That there ...

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

The unique Russian avant-garde art of the first quarter of the 20th century continues to influence artists and architects all over the world. At some point in their artistic careers artists from ...

Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde has been busy since her victory on July 8. Already, the 14-year-old eighth-grader has been celebrated by the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama, ...