At an earlier iteration of that fair, after perusing the art ... book’s final character, the French philosopher Guy Debord, was a theorist of what came next: the spectacle. So-called Neo-avant ...

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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 ...

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 ...