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Avant-garde Art The Origins of the Phrase Originally, "avant-garde" was a French military term for what would be called in English the vanguard of an army. However, its first application to art precedes by some decades the emergence of any distinctly avant-garde art movements. The coinage has generally been attributed to the French social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon. In his book Opinions litteraires, philosophiques et industrielles ( Literary, Philosophical, and Industrial Opinions) (1825), published in the year of his death, Saint-Simon wrote: "It is we artists who will serve you as avant...

W.E.B. Du Bois showed us the power of data viz more than a century ago By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 2:46 p.m. Email to a Friend W. E. B. Du Bois created a set of gorgeous infographics for the 1900 Paris Exposition.Maura Intemann/W. E. B. Du Bois/Library of Congress GREAT BARRINGTON — February in the Berkshires typically brings to mind an array of nature-centric, winter-wonderland pleasures like snowshoeing or skiing, and in the continuing drag of this long, long pandemic year, they’re a therapeutic salve unlike any other. This February brought a new feature...

ON’s Centre Court Sneaker is a Swiss Design Masterpiece Highsnobiety / Flavio Karrer As design movements go, Swiss design isn’t one you hear referenced too often. This is partly because the internet has made geographic tendencies somewhat obsolete, but mostly because Swiss Style has been so frequently borrowed from you’d be forgiven for not knowing what it actually is. Highsnobiety / Flavio Karrer Highsnobiety / Flavio Karrer Swiss design came to prominence after World War II, when a budding graphic design scene emerged (some say it was a result of the influx of intellectuals and artist...

Lawrie Shabibi opens 'The Lacemaker' by Farhad Ahrarnia Farhad Ahrarnia, La Femme Du Bazar, no. 5, 2015. Hand embroidery and sequins on heat-transferred montage onto cotton, 78.5 x 64.2 cm. Courtesy the artist and Lawrie Shabibi, DUBAI .-Lawrie Shabibi is presenting The Lacemaker by Farhad Ahrarnia, the gallery's opening exhibition of 2021, and the artist’s third solo at Lawrie Shabibi. Comprising images drawn from a diverse range of sources and media – the internet, printed or painted material, and composed with embroidery, painted metalwork and grooming items – the exhibition gives new i...

The Lacemaker is pacemaker for Lawrie Shabibi’s 2021 opening season 18 Jan 2021 Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer Lawrie Shabibi, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, has announced The Lacemaker by Farhad Ahrarnia (Jan. 20 – Mar. 4). It is the gallery’s opening exhibition of 2021, and the artist’s third solo at the gallery. Comprising images drawn from a diverse range of sources and media — the internet, printed or painted material, and composed with embroidery, painted metalwork and grooming items — the exhibition gives new insight into the Shiraz (Iran) and Sheffield (UK) based ar...