modernism
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She said her focus was following in the footsteps of Tennessee Williams and the other greats of American modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
All three of us share a focus on researching, archiving and documenting Black modernism and space.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
And, in that half, explored another less knowable side of the moon represented by Richard Strauss’ well-known “Salome,” which helped usher in 20th-century operatic modernism.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Picasso’s Cubism introduced Lam not only to European modernism but also to its sources—African masks and totemic art, to which Lam, understandably, felt a familial connection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
The strange, passionate marriage of Russian and French modernism that was born at those Trocadero concerts was to turn into something big, noisy and rebellious.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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