HOW TO BE AVANT-GARDE: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art, by Morgan Falconer In July 1915, on the shores of Lake Garda, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti mounted his army-issue bicycle to perform ...

But such is the case with the aptly titled “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”—an enlightening, beautifully orchestrated show of some 110 paintings ...

Amrita Sher-Gil was a revolutionary painter who is considered one of the most important avant-garde artists of the early 20th ...

But being avant-garde, Mr. Falconer reminds us, meant going yet further and abandoning art as traditionally conceived. “Humanity will not lose much by missing art,” the painter Piet Mondrian ...