Avant Garde | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/avant-garde/RSS feed for Avant GardeenWed, 12 Nov 2025 21:14:56 +0000A Sweeping Yoko Ono Retrospective Aims to Make Music in Museumgoers' Mindshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-sweeping-yoko-ono-retrospective-aims-to-make-music-in-museumgoers-mind-180987680/The exhibition spotlights more than 200 works by the 92-year-old artist, from provocative early works to more recent creationsWed, 12 Nov 2025 21:14:56 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-sweeping-yoko-ono-retrospective-aims-to-make-music-in-museumgoers-mind-180987680/Watch Andy Warhol's Eight-Hour Film About the Empire State Building on the Skyscraper's 80th Floorhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-andy-warhols-film-about-the-empire-state-building-on-the-buildings-80th-floor-180984779/Released in 1964, the divisive experimental film is being screened in honor of its 60th anniversaryFri, 26 Jul 2024 19:29:15 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-andy-warhols-film-about-the-empire-state-building-on-the-buildings-80th-floor-180984779/This Organ Is Playing a 639-Year-Long Song. It Just Changed Chords for the First Time in Two Yearshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crowds-watch-an-organ-playing-a-639-year-long-song-change-chords-180983750/The instrument has been playing composer John Cage's "ASLSP" since 2001—and it's scheduled to conclude in 2640Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:10:29 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crowds-watch-an-organ-playing-a-639-year-long-song-change-chords-180983750/How the 'Wild Beasts' of Fauvism Took the Art World by Stormhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-swiss-exhibition-spotlights-fauvism-and-its-women-members-180982863/A new exhibition examines the short-lived movement—and sheds new light on its women membersFri, 08 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-swiss-exhibition-spotlights-fauvism-and-its-women-members-180982863/Just Above Midtown Was a Haven for Black Artistshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/just-above-midtown-was-a-haven-for-black-artists-180980760/A new exhibition spotlights the gallery that championed Black avant-garde art in the 1970s and ’80sFri, 07 Oct 2022 18:39:21 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/just-above-midtown-was-a-haven-for-black-artists-180980760/Is the Artwork of Sophie Taeuber-Arp Still Avant-Garde?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/it-still-avant-garde-180977156/Decades after she painted this canvas, a new show reconsiders a misunderstood Swiss artistFri, 19 Mar 2021 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/it-still-avant-garde-180977156/The Summer of Yoko Ono Ends with Shrieks and Screams https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/summer-yoko-ono-ends-shrieks-and-screams-180965006/A concert, a broken vase and unfettered adoration for the avant-guard artist marks the Hirshhorn’s finale to its appreciation Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/summer-yoko-ono-ends-shrieks-and-screams-180965006/How Artists and the LGBTQ Community Made Wearing Trash Cool https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/thrift-shopping-cool-180964536/Before hipsters descended on your local thrift store, repurposing discarded goods was a subversive art formThu, 17 Aug 2017 16:18:46 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/thrift-shopping-cool-180964536/