Word: modernist
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...wing devoted to the Art of the Americas. The new wing, designed by Norman Foster, will contain over 50 new galleries spread over four floors. Visitors will begin on the ground floor with the Pre-Columbian era and work their way up until they get to the modernist masters like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline on the top floor, alongside African-American artist Jacob Lawrence and Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam. Objects from South, Central, and North America will be presented as forming a coherent whole, a particular trajectory through the evolution of artistic practice...
William Faulkner’s modernist classic “The Sound and the Fury” has the reputation as one of the most formidable and tragic novels in the American canon. Surprisingly, appreciating Faulkner’s comedy has drastically changed my perception of the book. “The Sound and the Fury” concerns the disintegration of the Compson family, a declining aristocratic Southern clan living on a once-prosperous plantation. The first three sections are written from the point of view of the three Compson brothers: the mentally retarded Benjy, the suicidal Harvard student...
...ICA—with its waterfront location, glass and metal architecture, and massive windows streaming natural light—not only stands up to, but compliments the exhibit, holding its own against the Modernist juggernauts Tate Modern in London and Whitney Museum of American Art where “Roni Horn aka Roni Horn” had previously traveled. The building itself opened at the end of 2006—the first new art museum built in Boston in nearly 100 years...
...school of the arts situated on the estate of a wealthy patron in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where the Saarinens soon relocated. In his teens, Eero worked occasionally on projects in his father's studio. From early in his career, the younger Saarinen's buildings grew out of the Modernist principles of simplified form and clearly expressed structure. But soon he was looking for ways to move beyond the arctic purities of Modernism's first generation. Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier had done what they could to cancel architecture's debt to the past and remake it from...
...Saarinen they found a man who operated in their sweet spot. His work had the richness and lyricism that so many Modernist buildings lacked. At the same time, he had taste and intelligence. He wasn't about to give them the kind of thing suited to Vegas casinos and Miami Beach hotels. For the most part, the wow factor in his buildings was a matter of structure, not sparkle. Saarinen was enchanted by the drama of powerful forms. His mother was a sculptor, and he had studied sculpture before switching to architecture. The massive curve of the Gateway Arch...