To some people, just the idea of poutine—a gloopy mixture of French fries, cheese curd and gravy invented in winter-addled Quebec—is surreal enough. And then there are the ads: But what does it mean?

It’s 1964 in downtown New York — do you know where your demimonde is? As it turns out, some of its denizens were in jail. In the March 19, 1964, issue of the Village Voice, Jonas Mekas, the paper’s ...

The film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” is as jubilantly overstuffed as ...

The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions, oscillating between excitement at its glamour and scorn at its pretensions. The term carries an association of being daring, ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point. By Adam Nossiter P. Adams Sitney, who pioneered the study of avant-garde ...

P. Adams Sitney, emeritus professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts and one of the world’s leading experts on avant-garde film, died at home in Matunuck, Rhode Island, on June 8. He ...