modernism
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This time along with Rossen Ventzislavov, an educator who brought me out to Woodbury University last spring as a fellow to teach a one-of-a-kind semester on Black modernism in architecture, design and popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
All three of us share a focus on researching, archiving and documenting Black modernism and space.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Many of Lam’s forays into modernism, into the 1940s—dependent, almost to the point of parody, on Picasso—are schematic misunderstandings of Cubism’s spatial complexities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
Paintings by Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Kazimir Malevich, Egon Schiele and others provide a look at different, usually more radical, deviations into modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
A fan of modernism and progress in all forms, Greeley was happy to introduce his readers to the new idea of spirit communication.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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