modernism
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The class is part of Modernism Week, a festival held every February in Palm Springs that attracts Midcentury architecture enthusiasts from around the world, with home and neighborhood tours and lectures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
But then came a message from a Modernism Week organizer, hoping Chapman would return for her 10th year of volunteering.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
It represents what might be called an Establishment Modernism, befitting a confident institution secure in its sense of self.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
Nigerian Modernism runs at the Tate Modern from Wednesday until 10 May next year, and hopes to illuminate a movement that has long been underrepresented on the global stage.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
Of all the wastes of time and sense which Modernism has invented—and they are many—none are so ridiculous as this endeavor to represent past history.
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John
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