Some, fixated on the 20th-century notion of the avant-garde, view their work as a divine revelation, as if history began with them.
This kind of thinking isn't confined to management experts with an avant-garde view to promote: Forty-eight percent of the respondents to an online survey that HBR conducted for me in 2007 agreed with the proposition "The truly global company has no home base". And among people with more than 10 years of international experience, 63% agreed.
The reworked multimedia installation, envisaged as a highlight of the exhibition's two-year international tour, will trace Berlin's influence as a treasure trove of history, art and culture on Bowie's avant-garde views on personality and self-expression.
That would be a sort of avant-garde viewing experience and they have that choice, you know?
Some 6,000 visitors stood in line on the opening day this month of the two-venue Madrid exhibition, "Picasso: Tradition and Avant-Garde," on view until Sept. 3.
Another museum show, "The Hungarian Avant-Garde, 1920-1930," on view from Sept. 7 to Nov. 26, looks at leading figures of the Budapest Bauhaus movement, at the Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence, (33-4) 42.20.01.09.
"México 1900 1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde" is on view at the Dallas Museum of Art until July 16.
While he has a resume of collaborative projects and has taught at leading architecture schools, the avant-garde designs on view in his Venice studio have not won him much solo work.
I was "malled" by all six stories of it on my way to view the "Amazons of the Avant-Garde Show," also on view at the Guggenheim, but who would know, as the six Russian artists whose works are in the show are so overshadowed by Armani?
"A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s ―1980s," is on view at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art.
In an era that invented nonfunctional craft as its avant-garde, domestic purpose was viewed as old-fashioned: an aesthetic impurity.
