In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

H-E-C-T-I-C. "Hectic" has become one of Zaila Avant-garde's most frequently used words to describe life after winning the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee in July. The 15-year-old Louisiana native ...

After making history at the Scripps National Spelling Bee last week, Zaila Avant-garde has her sights set on the future. The 14-year-old spelling dynamo spoke with ET on the red carpet at this year's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a one-year pandemic hiatus, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has returned and crowned its first Black American winner in ...

Pioneering Russian artists take the center stage at New York’s Museum of Modern Art for “A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde,” which opens on December 4. In addition to ...

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, ...

Though portraiture is one of the oldest and most traditional art genres, it has consistently proven a potent starting point for artistic experimentation. At Paris gallery Hélène Bailly, the exhibition ...

Avant-garde albums have historically been pretty inaccessible to mainstream audiences. If a collection of music is too weird, a lot of listeners will dismiss it. However, I think the following three ...

I suppose I should worry that the French and military codeword avant-garde still seduces me. This word, after all, can conceal so much snobisme. But then: there's no reason to dismiss something just ...

Editors’ Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. I am sick of the term “avant-garde,” a European invention that has been presided over and ...

Some of you art enthusiasts and literature lovers might already be familiar with the term “Avant-Garde”. Others may have seen it here and there, with the word looking a bit intimidating. Like many ...