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Twice, it seems, we have seen the use of the word avant-garde this season and twice most have missed the mark.

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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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