One neighborhood of New York County is contiguous with the mainland. Marble Hill at one time was part of Manhattan Island, but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in 1895 to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan as an island between the Bronx and the remainder of Manhattan.
For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation). The Love of Zero, a 1927 film by Robert Florey. The avant-garde (from French, advance guard or vanguard, literally fore-guard) are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.
One of these was photography, whose invention in the 1830s introduced a new method for depicting and reinterpreting the world. The Museum of Modern Art collects work made after 1880, when the atmosphere was ripe for avant-garde artists to take their work in new, unexpected, and âmodernâ directions.