Dada and Dewey decimals Oct 8, 2009
Even the building itself boasts of an artistic form designed by Helmut Jahn, who is world-renowned for his new European modernism approach to building design and function. Catherine Ostrander, head of community relations at the Auraria Library provided a tour of the facility, but cautioned that the exhibits presently on display are sparse because it s the beginning of the semester and the art instructors have yet to submit pieces from their students. (UCD Advocate, CO)
Looking back for fiction's big one Oct 3, 2009
Simon Mawer, whose The Glass Room captures the essence of modernism in architecture, says that he'd be happy living in a tent. The Irish are sulking because neither William Trevor nor Colm Toibin made the cut from long list to short. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
5th Annual Palm Springs Modernism Week Will Take Place February 12-21, 2010 Sep 30, 2009
Source: Modernism Week ... Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The schedule of events for the next highly-anticipated Modernism Week was announced by event organizers ... The 5th Annual Modernism Week, slated to take place February 12 - 21, 2010, is bookended by two exciting weekends and filled with retro and educational fun in-between. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
China influences Wellesley resident's landscape design Sep 25, 2009
Minimalism has left landscape design in a kind of time warp thinking that harks back to the less is more delusion of modernism, when in fact less is more of a bore. China finds to find it hard to do less when more is so much more tempting. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Peter Schjeldahl: Kandinsky at the Guggenheim. Sep 21, 2009
His independence of Picasso made him a crucial influence on the efforts to blow open the knitted pictorial space of Parisian modernism. Mentions his book On the Spiritual in Art (1911). (New Yorker)
Rocco Fazzari Sep 18, 2009
It's also the only blog that we know of that provides a forum for serious political commentary, art criticism and accommodates post -post modernism in its posts in one. Most of it's a lot of fun. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Contemporary Classical Ateliers Sep 16, 2009
But in the 20th century, when modernism took hold, fine art instruction in the manner of the academies ceased to exist for several generations ... Modernism came on the scene as a rebellion against the past ... Modernism abandoned lifelike representation in painting, which it considered passe and outmoded. (Suite101.com)
A century of iconic designs Sep 14, 2009
Design movements of the 20th century will be back in the spotlight at the San Francisco 20th Century Modernism Show and Sale Sept. 25-27 at Fort Mason Center ... The late architect Charles Moore, dubbed the "pied piper of postmodernism" by the New York Times, built this home as his. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bold Landscapes in Salisbury Show Sep 11, 2009
The two older artists' works were forged in the fires of Modernism, Futurism and Expressionism. Through them, Ms. Boris discovered these movements of the 1920s and 1930s and how she could incorporate elements of the abstract into her own distinctive still lifes and portraits. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
My ant could paint that! Sep 6, 2009
But in fact, the resemblance says a lot for the success of Modernism s redefinition of the artwork: when we say that the work of invertebrates looks like art, we don t mean that it resembles a Grecian bust or an Impressionist landscape. We mean that it looks like abstraction. (Boston Globe)
Tolkien’s ‘Legend’ lives on in poems Sep 4, 2009
While most authors of the early 20th century were busy smashing Victorian conventions and reassembling the pieces into irony-laden modernism, Tolkien was penning stories and poems about domineering dragons and world-weary wizards. Since he was more inclined to tinker rather than finish many of his projects, reams of uncompleted drafts remain, like treasures to unearth. (Boston Globe)
James Dormer and Paul Flippen Sep 2, 2009
It centers on the parameters of modernism and postmodernism ... You'll probably get an answer that's vague and insinuates that modernism ended in the 1960s. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Good Books Dont Have to Be Hard, Lev Grossman, The Wall Street Journal Sep 1, 2009
Writers like Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, Kelly Link, Audrey Niffenegger, Richard Price, Kate Atkinson, Neil Gaiman, and Susanna Clarke, to name just a few, are busily grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction: fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, romance. They're forging connections between literary spheres that have been hermetically sealed off from one another for a century. (Harper's Magazine)
Cabinets of curiosities make a comeback Sep 1, 2009
Maybe it's a backlash against minimalism and modernism. Maybe it's just fun creating imaginative dioramas from out-of-the-ordinary items. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
Exhibit demonstrates Hans Hofmann’s unparalleled legacy Aug 25, 2009
Born in 1880, Hofmann had known Picasso, Matisse, Braque and many other major figures of European modernism ... It was grounded in the formal and perceptual revolutions of early 20th-century modernism in Europe, but it left room for something more. (Boston Globe)
‘View From the Terrace’ considers works of Charles Hopkinson Aug 23, 2009
Then, he painted brash, lilting watercolors shouldering their way into modernism, mostly seascapes made on site at Sharksmouth. Falling between these two radically different pursuits were oil paintings he made of his family, often outdoors. (Boston Globe)
2 artists use found images to create new works Aug 22, 2009
A selection of images under the title "Hunted and Gathered" hangs at Modernism, celebrating the University of California Press' recent release of the second book, "The Face in the Lens" (207 pages; $45). Although it includes some anonymous pictures, nothing at Modernism appears in the books, which hints at the depth of Johnson's cache ... Modernism, 685 Market St., San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Christie on a major exploratory research of Bengal School art Aug 19, 2009
Conversely exclusively with ET, Dr Weihe said, "Calcutta is where it all started. This is a city which has some of the oldest galleries and also the Bengal School which played a critical role in what we know as Modern Indian art and Modernism. We are featuring Bengal School art in quite a big way in our forthcoming sale in New York in September. So, its important for us to explore this sphere. Calcutta, so long, has been neglected in the bigger picture.". "We are including various Bengal... (India Times)
• Reconsider 20th-century modernism at new exhibit Aug 14, 2009
Reconsider 20th-century modernism at new exhibit Times-News. "Modern Parallels," a new exhibition at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, takes a look at the work of West Coast artists Mary Henry and Helen Lundeberg, with an eye toward illuminating the parallels between the women's work and the meandering path of modernism in the 20th century ... At 7 p.m. Sept. 17, the center will present two short lectures on women artists and modernism in the U.S. Kristin Poole will talk about the... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Rediscovering Modernist homes on Cape Aug 13, 2009
Nestled by thick scrub pines, overlooking salt ponds, inlets, and sand dunes are more than 80 homes designed by prominent architects of Modernism including Marcel Breuer, Serge Chermayeff, Paul Krueger, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Paul Weidlinger, and Charles Zehnder ... Following World War II, Massachusetts was a hotbed of Modernism ... Michael Hayes, professor of architectural theory at Harvard s Graduate School of Design and adjunct curator of architecture at the Whitney Museum of Art, will... (Boston Globe)
Apple store set to gobble up art deco landmark Aug 11, 2009
Robin Grow, president of the Art Deco & Modernism Society, vehemently opposes the development, which is scheduled to be completed by Christmas 2012 and will include 240 shops. Independent Apple retailers would also be shaking in their boots due to the tendency of Apple's flagship stores to vacuum up all of the attention and nearby foot traffic. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
‘Showa Sophistication’ reflects Japan of the 1930s Aug 9, 2009
Rather, it was the flavor of Japanese modernism that had changed. The Western-inspired individualism of the 1910s and 20s had morphed into a new kind of conformity, one that uncannily anticipated the peculiar mixture of Westernization and corporate conformity in postwar Japan. (Boston Globe)
Eyeing P-town’s place in American art Aug 5, 2009
Still, it s a delirious rush through Provincetown s place in American art, from the more academic work of Charles Webster Hawthorne, the art colony s first great teacher, through the Post-Impressionism of Edwin Dickinson headlong into Modernism and Abstract Expressionism. It s not clear when, exactly, Frank Days Sr. opened the second floor of his lumber company to artists. (Boston Globe)
Frist Center One of Three Venues, Worldwide, for The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musee d'Orsay Aug 5, 2009
The exhibition provides a broad context for understanding the roots of Modernism by combining seminal works by innovators such as Courbet, Manet, Cezanne, Monet, and Renoir; Salon painters such as Bouguereau; and artists who moved easily between convention and innovation, such as Degas, Fantin-Latour, and Whistler. About the Frist Center. (PR Newswire)
Joan Acocella: Remembering Merce Cunningham. Aug 3, 2009
Merce Cunningham s signal achievement is that he established modernism abstraction, decentralization in dance. In consequence, some people loathed his work, thought it was a prank. (New Yorker)
Visual arts picks Aug 2, 2009
An exploration of the mutual influence these two popular giants of early American modernism exerted on each other. Through Sept. 7. (Boston Globe)
MFA display recalls the designs of Greene & Greene Aug 2, 2009
The brothers faded into obscurity partly because so many copied their distinctly Californian take on the American Arts and Crafts style that their work was lost in a sea of likenesses, and partly because Modernism stormed in with its boxes made of steel and glass, shouting down the warm romanticism of its predecessors ... The Greenes balanced on the brink of Modernism ... In 1947, the same year the Blacker House contents were sold off in a yard sale, critic Lewis Mumford saw modern California... (Boston Globe)
Washington diary Jul 30, 2009
The Nazis associated the architecture with the party and declared war on modernism ... Like the Reichstag (which was revamped and re-domed by Sir Norman Foster), the newly refurbished Neues Museum - courtesy of British architect David Chipperfield - is an astonishing melding of neo-classicism and 21st Century post-modernism that does not hide the bullet holes and bomb craters of an ugly era. (BBC News -- Americas)
Books about Frank Lloyd Wright Jul 27, 2009
It's an overview of clarity and depth, capturing the arc from Prairie Style to sci-fi modernism. But the essays tilt toward minutiae (one focuses on Wright subdivision plans), and the hero worship is thick. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Karmapa Lama: Tibet's young voice Jul 23, 2009
Now a young man, many in the exiled Tibetan community believe the 25-year-old Karmapa will become their next spiritual leader after their god-king the Dalai Lama, who has sought to blend modernism with tradition, passes away. Belonging to the Black Hat lineage, the Karmapa Lama is an exceptionally intelligent young monk. (Asia Times Online)
Obituaries in the news Jul 21, 2009
The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) presents Cezanne and American Modernism, the first exhibition to examine fully the influence of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) upon modern American artists from 1907 to 1930 ... As the largest, most ambitious exhibition in the 95-year history of the Museum, Cezanne and American Modernism comprises 131 works, including 18 works by Cezanne and paintings, works on paper, photographs, and archival documents representing 34 American artists, as well as critics. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
The Buzz: Michelle Obama's rare fashion misstep Jul 20, 2009
-- Half the modern art crowd was at the Legion of Honor's John Baldessari gala opening July 9, courtesy of private collector Jordan Schnitzer, and the other half was at Modernism Inc., where former Fine Arts Museums curator Robert Flynn Johnson was signing "Hunted red," a coffee-table book with photos from his 2,500-piece collection. Gallerist Martin Muller selected the best to sell, from "delicious voyeurism" to surrealism to personalities, like Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio sharing a... (San Francisco Chronicle)
J. Shulman; photographer famed for his modern architectural works; 98 Jul 19, 2009
When asked how Mr. Shulman s photos of houses differed from others, Krull said: Modernism is characterized by an optimistic spirit, a belief that the future holds great promise and technology will improve civilization. Julius was perfectly suited to translate the tenets of optimism. (Boston Globe)
Thomas Hart Benton unsugarcoated takes Chautauqua stage (20) Jul 19, 2009
Benton spoke a lot against modernism, which he used for 15 years of his art career until a stint in the Navy. Modernism isn t really art, Benton said, explaining that it isn t an interpretation of what he sees and has no social significance on the world ... Modernism is devoid of any originality or significance. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Art critic’s picks Jul 19, 2009
From two greats of American modernism, Georgia O Keeffe and Arthur Dove, works that rhyme with, riff on, and mutually reinforce one another. Through Sept. 7. (Boston Globe)
Art galleries Jul 19, 2009
From storefront shoestring operations such as Triple Base in San Francisco and Mercury 20 in Oakland to sleek venues such as the John Berggruen Gallery and Modernism in San Francisco, all are free to visitors during business hours. Paying customers may be made to feel more welcome than Looky Lous, but never mind; if you care to look, there's plenty to see. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Modernist photographer Julius Shulman dies in LA Jul 17, 2009
When asked how Shulman's photos of houses differed from others, Krull said: "Modernism is characterized by an optimistic spirit, a belief that the future holds great promise and technology will improve civilization. Julius was perfectly suited to translate the tenets of optimism.". Over the past 20 years, Krull said he learned a lot about architecture from Shulman. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
‘Dove/O’Keeffe’ exhibit shines at Clark Art Institute Jul 12, 2009
The exhibition tells a story about the artistic relationship between two greats of American modernism, Georgia O Keeffe and Arthur Dove ... But in terms of the uptake of modernism in America, he was well ahead of her - of her and just about everyone else in this country ... O Keeffe, during all this time, was pawing and prodding at the emerging tenets of modernism, trying to work out which aspects made sense to her and which didn t. By the time she met Dove in person in 1918 she already knew of... (Boston Globe)
Stars align for Prendergast exhibition at Williams College Jul 12, 2009
They find him poised between traditionalism and Modernism, Old World and New, even Boston and New York. (Prendergast lived in Boston from 1868, when he was 10, until he moved to New York in 1914. (Boston Globe)
Bang on a Can to perform and teach in North Adams Jul 10, 2009
Too traditionally classical for downtown, too edgy for uptown, its composers and affiliated ensembles brought together modernism, minimalism, and pop influences into a brew that was distinctive but hard to pin a label on. Even as Bang on a Can grew in importance - its marathon concerts have become major events - it held onto its outsider status. (Boston Globe)
The NYT Situation Room Jul 3, 2009
At the NYT editorial meetings, however, the seating gives the room the air of a parliamentary debating chamber (albeit with all the minimalist charm of postwar modernism la the UN general assembly and EU Parliament). For people with no less than the power to decide what [is] important in the world, they ought to get a better interior decorator. (The American Conservative)
Bill Brandt : Over 50 Images by One of the Twentieth-Centurys Greatest Photographers Jun 29, 2009
However, before embarking on this personal journey, Brandt had been fortunate enough to study under Man Ray in Paris, where he absorbed the aesthetics of Surrealism a training that would forever colour his photographs with the marvellous tint of European modernism. Brandt was a regular presence in the great photographic magazines of the time, particularly Picture Post and Lilliput, but also published numerous books including The English at Home (1936), A Night in London (1938), Literary... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Sweetness and Spite Jun 25, 2009
As critic William H. Pritchard observed, Books by [light verse s] practitioners were reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, the general sense being that, in the age of [T.S.] Eliot and Wallace Stevens, it was an excellent alternative to high modernism. The practitioners themselves won Pulitzers and honorary doctorates. (The American Conservative)
Critic' picks in the visual arts Jun 21, 2009
DOVE / O KEEFFE: CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE An exploration of the mutual influence these two popular giants of early American modernism exerted on each other. Through Sept. 7. (Boston Globe)
Stylish digs along the Oregon Coast Jun 19, 2009
Recently, however, a group of properties has sprung up on the northern coast, aiming to seduce 21st-century travelers with designs steeped in post-World War II Modernism. The Cannery Pier Hotel was built on the site of a fish-packing facility on the Columbia River. (CNN -- Travel)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009, Ron Silliman, Sillimans Blog Jun 4, 2009
Jordan Davis, in his at Laura Millers The Magicians Book: A Skeptics Adventures in Narnia, underscores the same point by looking at the earlier divide between modernism & its predecessors ... The whole of modernism might be read as a shift first figured by that glance into the abyss of consciousness from that moment forward one was not literate if one identified with a character. (Harper's Magazine)
Read Indepth Article Jun 3, 2009
The cradle is an object redolent with meaning perhaps here a poetic link to the birth of Modernism as in Baudelaires poems. Dada, the rocking horse found in a flea market, is indebted to Duchamp, Brancusi and the Dadaist movement. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Show of the week: Mask And Memory Jun 2, 2009
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) was one of the giants of Australian art, coming of age during the tentative flowering of Australian modernism in the 1930s and '40s. This documentary, however, is not concerned with his place in the nascent modernist movement; rather it traces his artistic evolution through his tumultuous personal life. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Endless Mahler Jun 1, 2009
minence grise of European modernism to disdain this masterpiece of late-Romantic pomp, but Boulez has apparently developed a fondness for the work, his attention to detail sharpening certain grandly bustling passages that can sound like official memos from the Gesamtkunstwerk Corporation. PHOTOGRAPH: AKG-IMAGES. (New Yorker)
Life By the Horns Jun 1, 2009
When Hemingway began writing, he was confronted with what was chic at the time the rejection of maturity, modernism in the arts, bright young things, and radicalism in politics. He chose instead to write about the beauties and terrors of nature, the masculine virtues, and the nobility of failure. (The American Conservative)
Academy of Art students show off their stuff May 26, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009. The South of Market warehouse was an appropriately vast setting for the Academy of Art's Annual Spring Show. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Walk-Through: 465 Hoffman Ave., S.F. May 21, 2009
Description: Designed by architect Joel Karr's Group 41 Inc., the H House combines crisp modernism and sustainable practices. Its ebony-colored floors are recycled from pressed timber scraps; engineered veneer finishes are made from recycled sawdust. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Spiralling Upward May 18, 2009
In his great house Fallingwater, of 1936, powerful cantilevers lent some of the crispness of European modernism. And then there are the hexagons, hemicycles, triangles, and spirals that pervade his late work. (New Yorker)
Prince Charles Boycotted by Architects as Speech Attacks Modernist Designs May 13, 2009
I dont really see this monolithic architectural philosophy called Modernism, said RIBA President Sunand Prasad, as he wrapped up the talk with the prince listening. There are large numbers of very beautiful 20th- and 21st-century buildings inspired by new structural and material possibilities that seem to me to exhibit, even celebrate, the subtle order that is nature, said Prasad, who listed award winning projects including two by Rogers. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Another Side of Richard Neutra May 10, 2009
Published: Friday, May 8, 2009 4:34 PM PDT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - When it comes to Mid-Century Modernism, Richard Neutra is largely seen as the quintessential California architect: Dozens of his sleek homes, schools and other buildings are scattered around Los Angeles ... Those with a taste for Mid-Century Modernism have a full plate of it in a new exhibition at the Central Library called Richard Neutra, Architect: Sketches and Drawings ... Hines decision to focus entirely on drawings was... (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Spaeth, Wilder, Kloster earn honorable mentions May 10, 2009
Spaeth admits being inspired by modernism pioneer and artist Mark Chagall. I really like the way he puts together memories, she said. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Fresno Burns Building's boring looks belie colorful history May 10, 2009
The building is among Fresno's most prominent examples of the International Style of architecture, sometimes called Modernism ... It's sometimes called Modernism. (Fresno Bee)
Alfred Appel Jr., jazz scholar May 8, 2009
The best known was "Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce" (2002), an attempt to place jazz in the context of the modern movement in 20th-century art. He enrolled at Cornell but after serving in the Army, he transferred to Columbia University. (Boston Globe)
The Objective Correlative May 5, 2009
These strong statements have garnered criticism regarding how "objective" an author and reader can be, and caused Eliot's original idea to seem like a dated product of Modernism. Criticisms. (Suite101.com)
Top Bay artists often underappreciated in life May 5, 2009
Gile's high-keyed palette and compositional simplicity verging on abstraction drove the flirtation with modernism that Bay Area painters would not consummate until decades later ... But after his move to Los Angeles, where he lived for many years before retiring to Sonoma County, Diebenkorn invented his own classical mode of abstract painting, a summit of modernism that few have attempted to surmount ... But not even he could foresee that his work would one day look like a bridge between the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Scholars, visiting faculty, leaders represent Chicago as AAAS fellows May 1, 2009
His teaching and research focus specifically on postwar American poetry, song lyrics, East German writing (1949-89) and early literary modernism (1909-25) in London, New York, Berlin and Munich ... With alumnus Lawrence Rainey, he founded and co-edited the journal Modernism/Modernity, published by the Johns Hopkins University. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
* Plus ça change ... Apr 29, 2009
Taken together the themes suggest aesthetic continuity between French classicism and European modernism as informed by artistic concerns that date back to antiquity. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Fresno Japanese-American artist dies at 88 Apr 28, 2009
"Bowers said Ms. Kasai enrolled in The Cooper Union art school in New York. Her friend Mary Maughelli said Ms. Kasai studied wood cut with the Argentine-born printmaker Antonio Frasconi. She later received a Fulbright scholarship that took her to Japan in the late 1950s, where she concentrated on Japanese wood-block prints and produced her first collages.In the early 1960s, Ms. Kasai returned to Fresno, where she earned a masters degree from Fresno State College and helped start the Fig Tree... (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Pair finds bond in S.F. furniture shop Apr 20, 2009
Want a little touch of modernism for that blank white wall. San Francisco's Lost Art Salon, which specializes in art by lesser-known, but accomplished, artists from the early to middle 20th century, is offering stone lithographs done in the 1960s by Gary Lee Shaffer in New York City. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Wright's Fallingwater appeals to many senses Apr 19, 2009
A few miles from Fallingwater, Kentuck Knob is a much less visited but fine example of Wright's sleek modernism and designing with nature. The L-shaped private residence burrows into a hillside with fine details such as skylights, the use of red cypress, sandstone, and glass. (Boston Globe)
