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The image of a man who lost all sense of ceremony in a show that is almost completely about leaning into the avant garde and fantastical pomp of a Scottish castle.

From Salon

The complex, called Avant Gardner, began to host some of the world’s most famous electronic musicians, and throngs of New Yorkers came to revel in the atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal

These films, along with theatre such as Arthur Miller’s McCarthy era allegory “The Crucible,” and surreal, avant garde works like Jean Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” and Samuel Becket’s “Waiting for Godot,” tested the assumptions of bourgeois 1950s America and led the way to the creative explosion of the following decades.

From Salon

Gehry is known for his avant garde, experimental style of architecture.

From BBC

But one event at the university, in which avant garde designs were celebrated with a show that included electronic music and colourful projections attracted unwelcome attention.

From Barron's