contemporary
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Its exterior features a contemporary spin on “fluted” columns.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art whose paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, has died aged 88, his publicist announced Friday.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
The Pompidou Centre in Paris, with which Hockney collaborated for two landmark exhibitions, described him as "unquestionably one of the major figures of contemporary art".
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
Based in Brooklyn, Delgado Lopera says he’s just finished teaching for the year as an assistant professor of creative writing and contemporary Latine literature at the City University of New York.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
A contemporary philosopher has distinguished between three sorts of facts: brute facts, language-dependent facts and institutional facts.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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