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Bertram's declarations that Brian Eno is a "bald hack who molests little girls" and that John Cage "had no idea what he was doing," show how much contempt the young buck has for his avant-garde predecessors.
(26 June 2007) - While Berlin's heyday as the avant-capitol of Europe has been in decline, I recently noticed a few Berliner habits that show the city still has an edge-even if it is a softer, more grown-up one.— Cool Hunting
Altermodernism can be defined as that moment when it became possible for us to produce something that made sense starting from an assumed heterochrony, that is, from a vision of human history as constituted of multiple temporalities, disdaining the nostalgia for the avant-garde and indeed for any kind of era - a positive vision of chaos and complexity— Museum Blogs
Jose Val del Omar to carry the torch for the avant-garde.— GreenCine Daily
Modern Creatures, drinks (natch) and the kind of avant-garde, edge-of-acceptable dancing you can only find at a Vancouver arts event.— CBC Radio 3

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