Modernism

The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos: A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity

Pietros Maneos | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Novella, Ancient Literature, Heart of Darkness, Gabriele Paterkallos, Jerry Saltz, Romanticism, Modernism, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, Video, Culture News
Pietros Maneos

He is a man who does not wish to die, who is not 'waiting for death,' but rather is craving more life, more experience, more sensation; and truly, he desires to live a thousand lives, so as to savor every single sensation of beauty, passion, and ecstasy.

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Blue-Chip Modern: Who Are the Most Bankable Stars of 20th Century Design?

ARTINFO | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Furniture, Modernism, Artinfo, 20th Century Design, Modern Painters, Charles and Ray Eames, Arts News
ARTINFO

In the season of heavy-hitting antiques trading that opens each new year, including the Americana sales at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York, the W...

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Killing Modernism with Fuzzy Math, Bad Information and False Choices

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Modernism, Urban Planning, Minneapolis, Architecture Conservation, Peavey Plaza Minneapolis, Peavey Plaza, Orange County Government Cente, Architecture-Restoration, Paul Rudolph, Arts News
Charles A. Birnbaum

Modernism, despite the popularity of Mad Men and shelter magazines like Dwell, is under assault. Iconic works of architecture and landscape architecture from have a particularly high mortality rate.

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Happy Birthday, Barbican

Crane.tv | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Barbican Centre, crane.tv, Barbican, Arts News, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Modernism, UK Arts, Lousie Jeffries, Video, Arts News
Crane.tv

This year sees the Barbican Centre celebrate 30 years of contribution to the arts by crafting a spectacular season of cultural events.

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PHOTOS: Mies Van Der Rohe Around The World

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Farnsworth, Ludwig-Mies-Van-Der-Rohe, Mies Van Der Rohe Farnsworth, Mies Van Der Rohe, Modernism, Art Travel, Mies Van Der Rohe Google Doodle, Seagram, Google Doodle, Travel News

Mies Van Der Rohe is the talk of the internet this Tuesday thanks to a Google doodle celebrating his 126th birthday, architectural accomplishments and...

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Happy Birthday, Mies van der Rohe!

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Video, Seagram Building, Mies Van Der Rohe, Modernism, Less Is More, Architecture, Crown Hall, Modern Architecture, New York Herald Tribune, International Style, Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Arts News

Happy birthday to one of the principal shapers of our modern world, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Along with other post-World War I architects, such a...

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Influential Abstract Painter Dies At 88

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Klee, Dali, Barcelona Art, El Mundo, Antoni Tapies Rip, Abstract Art, Modernism, Antoni Tapies Dies, Catalan Art, Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, El Pais, Arts News

Antoni Tapies passed away last night according to his family members. He was 88 years old and had been in bad health for some time. Tapies was hugely ...

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Ivan Navarro On Language And Light

Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Chile, Modernism, Latin America, Light Art, Neon Art, Ivan Navarro, Chilean Art, Political Art, Neon, Arts News

During Ivan Navarro's childhood in Santiago, Chile, power outages were used as political threats. Because of this history, light plays a complicated r...

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Looking Closer At Absence

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Avant Garde, John Cage, African American History, Miles David, Jazz, Modernism, Art History, Postmodernism, Jennie Jones, Jones, Jennie C. Jones, Sound Art, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Arts News

Jennie C. Jones' works address absence. Yet instead of treating absence as pure lack, Jones explores its texture, its logic, its intention, its residu...

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Magnificent Seven From the Year 2011

Edward Goldman | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Getty Villa, Lacma, Art, Modernism, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Style News
Edward Goldman

I thought it might be a good idea to finish the year by talking about the most memorable, adventurous exhibitions in Los Angeles' museums and galleries over that last year.

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PHOTOS: Picasso's Drawings Travel The US

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: National Gallery, Cubism, Picasso's Drawings, Modernism, Pablo Picasso Drawing, Art in America, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Collage, The Frick Collection, Arts News

Picasso's iconic works are embedded permanently in our collective art memories, yet there are so many pieces just as mesmerizing and innovative which ...

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WATCH: Film Captures How Ray And Charles Eames Defined Design

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Eames, American Design, Modernism, Charles and Ray Eames, Design, Pbs American Masters, American Modernism, Eames Chair, Video, Apple, Eames Documentary, Ray and Charles Eames, Pbs Documentary, James Franco, Arts News

She was a painter who rarely painted. He was an architecture school dropout. Together they would define the aesthetic and lifestyle of American modern...

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Dwell Magazine's Top 10 Best Homes In America

Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: American-Homes, Modernism, Eero Saarinen, American Homeowners, Architecture, Le Corbusier, Homeowners, Modern Architecture, American Architecture, Functionality, Real Estate, Arts News

The editors at Dwell sifted through the hundreds of homes featured over the past ten years to create their new special issue, Best Homes in America. ...

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City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin?

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Restoration, Modernism, Urban Revitalization, Urban Planning, Minneapolis, Target Corp, Design, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, High Line, Arts News
Charles A. Birnbaum

Excitement has turned to disappointment in Minneapolis, and what's happening there should be a warning about safeguarding transparency in public process and civic debate.

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Entire Eames Living Room Comes To LACMA

Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: La Art, Resnick Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Furniture, Modernism, Ray Eames, Design, Architecture, Pacific Standard Time, California Design, Lacma, Los Angeles, Modern Design, Eames House, Pst, The Eames, Charles Eames, LA Art Scene, Arts News

There is a good chance Pacific Standard Time (PST), a Los Angeles-wide exhibition initiative tackling every major art movement from 1945-1980, will ti...

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When Is a Landmark A Landmark?

Roberta Brandes Gratz | Posted 09.29.2011

Read More: Historic Preservation, Modernism, New-York-Landmarks, Architecture, 2 Columbus Circle, Gordon Bunshaft, NY Real Estate, Modernist Architecture, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank, New York News
Roberta Brandes Gratz

No more iconic building represents the Modernist era in New York City than the 1954 Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue. Not anymore.

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PHOTOS: 10 Icons Of Modern Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Modernism, Unesco, Heritage, Architecture, Le Corbusier, Unesco World Heritage, Oscar Niemeyer, Bauhaus, Seagram Building, Frank Lloyd Wright, Icomos, Modern Architecture, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, World Heritage, Guggenheim Museum, Hiroshima, Bikini-Atoll, Preservation, Mies Van Der Rohe, Kenzo Tange, Walter Gropius, UK Arts, Arts News
Tom Mallory

A few weeks ago ICOMOS' recommendation against the registering of 19 buildings designed by Le Corbusier in the World Heritage List provoked heated dis...

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The 5 Greatest Architects Under 50

Ninan Kurien | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Thomas Heatherwick, Design, Architecture, Art, Todd Saunders, Modernism, Shanghai World Expo, Frank Gehry, Palladio, Bjarke Ingels, Pei Zhu, Mies Van Der Rohe, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Slidepollajax, Arts News
Ninan Kurien

Historically architecture as a profession has bestowed recognition on its participants mostly in a later stage of their careers and in many cases they...

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What President Obama Can Learn From Brazil

Milton Curry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Modernism, Latin America, Barack Obama, Brazil, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Kubichek, Style, Design, Arts, Arts News
Milton Curry

What we need now is what Brazil's former President Kubichek produced in the 1950s -- a symbolic architectural/urban concept that mobilizes the nation to want to achieve its goals.

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Top 10 Computer-Designed Buildings

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Parametric, Mies Van Der Rohe, Art Meets Science, Modernism, Frank Gehry, Design, Architecture, Parametric Design, Buildings, Cad, 3d Modelling, Gehry, Slidepollajax, Le Corbusier, Architects, Technology, Arts News
Adel Zakout

The advent of the industrial revolution, mass production and large-scale manufacturing industries during the last two centuries has had a revolutionar...

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Talking Urban: A Review of The Language of Towns and Cities by Dhiru A. Thadani

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Urbanism, Seaside (Florida), Dhiru A. Thadani, Modernism, Le Corbusier, Kentlands, Modernist Urban Planning, Urban Sprawl, Books News
Frank Gruber

The Language of Towns and Cities is an oddly personal work. I say "oddly," because the book's title invokes that most characteristically objective of all books, the dictionary.

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Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parmigianino, Willem De Kooning, Art, Modernism, Art History, Art Criticism, Richard Dadd, Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Paul Cezanne, Painting, Renaissance Art, Jacques-Louis David, Chris Ofili, Google Art Project, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Britain, Kunstmuseum Basel, Uffizi-Gallery, Arts News
James Elkins

I have been writing about looking slowly, taking the time to see the visual world. My first column was about a Mondrian painting, and it included some...

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Mat Gleason: Ten Most Overrated Artists In History

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renaissance, Slidepollajax, Art, Classical Art, Modernism, Impresionism, Arts News
Mat Gleason

Lots of contemporary art is not received well by a public that has become suspicious of the hype that substitutes for talent in our galleries today, a...

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Modernism for the Right: Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasilia

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Modern Architecture, Urban Design, Modernism, Brazil, Brasilia, Urbanism, Books News
Frank Gruber

The book is a stimulating collection of articles by Brazilian planners and architects concerning not only contemporary urbanism in their country, but also the history that resulted in the urbanism that is now "contemporary."

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WATCH: Virtual Book Tour

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poetry Techniques, Writing Poetry, Poetry, Ecological Literature, Postmodern Poetry, Ecological Poetry, Video, Authors, Poetry Reading, American Poetry, Modernism, Ezra Pound, Creative Writing, Books News
Anis Shivani

We introduce three brilliant emerging poets, all with poetry books out in early 2011. They give us an intimate look at what these books mean for thei...

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