The term New Wave has been used to describe several movements in art. These include:
Movements in film
- Australian New Wave
- French New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague, the inaugural New Wave cinema movement
- New German Cinema, new wave of German cinema
- Persian New Wave, started in the 1960s
- Czechoslovak New Wave
- Japanese New Wave, or Nuberu bagu, developing very shortly after the French Nouvelle Vague
- Brazilian New Wave
- Hong Kong New Wave, a movement in Hong Kong film led by Tsui Hark
- British New Wave
- Taiwan New Wave
- Thai New Wave
- Indian New Wave or Parallel Cinema
- New Wave Catamarans
Movements in music
- New Wave music, a movement which occurred in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the mid-1970s
- New Wave of British Heavy Metal
- Neue Deutsche Welle, the German New Wave music movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s
- Yugoslav New Wave - aka Novi Val, Novi Talas or Nov Bran, the New Wave scene in Yugoslavia in the late 1970s and early 1980s
- Nueva ola, a form of romantic Spanish language popular music, performed by romantic crooners and considered an outgrowth of balada, at least in Colombia, if not elsewhere in Latin America
Other
- New Wave (science fiction), a movement in science fiction
- New Wave (design), a typographical design philosophy
- NewWave (HP software), a software product released by Hewlett-Packard circa 1988
- New Wave (album), a 1993 rock album by The Auteurs
- New Wave (Against Me! album), a 2007 album by Against Me!
- The New Wave (comic book), a 1986 comic book by Eclipse Comics
- "The New Wave", a single by the band Daft Punk
- New Wave (competition), an annual international competition of young singers of popular music
