Tag: avant garde

  • Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde

    This milestone exhibition celebrates the pioneering art dealer Berthe Weill, who launched the careers of Picasso, Matisse and many more, but has been sidelined for many years

  • Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print

    Focusing on the influential Artes Visuales magazine and the extraordinary experimental artists it featured, this exhibition opens a window into Latin America’s complicated past which, sadly, only too closely resembles the present

  • Hej Rup! The Czech Avant-Garde

    This show is full of revelations – cubism in furniture, a love for tubular steel designs and a self-sufficient village for workers are just a few of those that mark the Czech art world as presented here

  • London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde

    From a naked man flinging himself into a giant jelly to a 24-hour piano recital to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s first joint show, London’s experimental art scene of the 1960s changed the face of art in the UK. David…

  • Sophie Taeuber-Arp

    An online exhibition at Hauser & Wirth serves as a fine reintroduction to one of the interwar avant garde’s great boundary-shattering figures

  • Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde

    Modern Couples attempts to retell the story of the modernist avant-garde through creative relationships. But is its intellectual impact marred by its massive scale?

  • Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity

    Vagrich Bakhchanyan was a follower of the Russian avant garde and a precursor of Moscow conceptualism and Sots art, as he strove to highlight the deadening absurdity of Soviet authoritarianism and officialdom

  • Modigliani: A Unique Artistic Voice

    This exhibition of Modigliani, who died tragically young, focuses on his works on paper, and shows how, drawing on classical tradition as well as the contemporary art of the time, his distinctive style evolved

  • Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s

    A beautiful exhibition of the Ukrainian avant garde’s theatre design from the 1910s and 20s is establishing a sense of identity for the art of a nation that has been split between its historical ties to the union with Russia…

  • Marc Chagall: A Retrospective (1908-1985)

    The long career of a colourful chameleon, Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, is shown off in more than 200 works on loan from over 20 collections