Avant Garde
Lorraine O’Grady, RIP
Her Wikipedia page.
In the early 1980s, O'Grady created the persona of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, who invaded art openings wearing a gown and a cape made of 180 pairs of white gloves,[10] first giving away flowers, then beating herself with a white studded whip, which she often referred to as, "the whip-that-made-the-plantations-move".[10] Whilst doing this she would often shout in protest poems that railed against a segregated art world that excluded black individuals from the world of mainstream art, and which she perceived as not looking beyond a small circle of friends. Her first performance as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire was in 1980 at the Linda Goode Bryant's Just Above Midtown gallery in Tribeca.[11]
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 14, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Jade Montserrat
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 04, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Twenty-first Century
Louise Lecavalier
The first video is about her, the other two illustrate her style. Are you down for an hour or so of this?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 17, 2024 -
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Category: Spastic, Uncontrolled, Awkward and Herky-Jerky Movements, Avant Garde, Dance
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 59
Remember my rule for this series? The artwork in question had to be made during Khrushchev's lifetime. Well, I thought 1968 was too late. But no! Nikita lived till 1971.The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 12, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Television, Self-referentiality, Circularity, and Endless Loops, 1960s, Russia
An Optical Poem
Creator's Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 21, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Movies, Stop-motion Animation, Music, 1930s
“Snail’s Gallop”
More on the artist here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 05, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Asia, Twenty-first Century
“Dispatch from Solitude #1: Walking the Unknown Path”
The artist's homepage.Social Distancing & Art Episode 3 from Ogden Contemporary Arts on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 16, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, Hunting, Trapping and Other Wilderness Activities, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art
Magoo in Hi-Fi
Once you get past the daft spoken word bits with Mr McGoo, this gets excellent, almost avant-garde in places, with incredible work by Dennis Farnon and Marni Nixon. The Very Contrary Mary track is stunning.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 30, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Avant Garde, Cartoons, 1950s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 57
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 01, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, 1940s, Women
The Necco Garden
This entry courtesy of Sherry Mowbray.The creator's Wikipedia page.
Source of text and photos.
Another source reveals:
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 31, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Candy, Reader Recommendation, 1980s, North America
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