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Modernism

June 2024

  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

    A showcase of modernist greats from Malevich to Delaunay, the Yorkshire sculptor’s Blitz drawings and Ofili’s tapestry returns home to Scotland – all in your weekly dispatch

March 2024

  • High Court
Projected by architect Le Corbusier
Chandigarh

    Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

    Modernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new exhibition

February 2024

  • An artist’s impression of the proposed South Bank development.

    Michael Gove approves ‘derided’ £400m development on London’s South Bank

    Office complex nicknamed the Slab given go-ahead despite fierce opposition from green and modernist architecture campaigners

October 2023

  • A long, low steel building with a rusty patina and large glass windows

    Britain’s most influential modernist architect? In praise of the lost buildings of Georgie Wolton

    Wolton, who died in 2021 aged 87, helped launch Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. Her dilapidated London home is almost all that remains of her fearless work

April 2023

  • ‘Notoriously cruel’: should we cancel Picasso? Collectors, artists, critics and curators decide

    He was the 20th century’s most influential artist – but he was also a monstrous misogynist. On the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, we ask: is it time to mothball the master?

March 2023

  • Detail of Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses) by Paul Cézanne.

    After Impressionism review – radical ideas and ecstatic sex from the edge of a new universe

    Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards

December 2022

  • Heading for demolition … a resident possessed by a demon in Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Cloud of Unknowing.

    Slashers, demons and head exploders: why horror revels in modern architecture

    In the 1920s, the traditional haunted house died a death – as home design became all clean lines and bright spaces. But directors soon turned these dirt-free abodes into eerie, alienating terrifying places

November 2022

  • Spectators at the Thamesmead sailing club in 1974.

    What happened to the cockney riviera? The botched regeneration of brutalist utopia Thamesmead

  • Marianne Werefkin’s Twins, 1909.

    Making Modernism review – four female trailblazers up close and personal

October 2022

  • Moshe Safdie, architect, photographed at the home of the late Richard Rogers in London by Antonio Olmos.

    Architect Moshe Safdie: ‘I was antagonistic to postmodernism – and I paid a price’

  • The Merz Barn near Elterwater in Cumbria where Schwitters worked in his final years.

    Art pioneer Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District retreat to be sold for development

September 2022

  • Facing demolition … the sweeping Ringway, seen behind Clint Eastwood when he visited the city in 1967.

    ‘If the Ringway goes, I’m leaving’ – the fight to save Birmingham’s brutiful masterpieces

    When Clint Eastwood posed by the glorious Ringway in the 1960s, the city boasted superb buildings aplenty. As yet more face the wrecking ball, we meet the people hitting back

July 2022

  • Winold Reiss artworks The Reiss Trust Woman with Gold Background, 1928 : The Reiss Trust The Librarian, 1924 or 1925 : Fisk University Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Langston Hughes, ca. 1925 : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of W. Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss

    Winold Reiss: the ‘immigrant modernist’ who changed American art

    An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back at the German artist’s often undervalued influence on early 20th-century art

May 2022

  • Yun Gee, Street Scene, 1926. Oil on board, 11 1/8 × 16 1/16 in. (28.3 × 40.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest 77.1.18.

    ‘It’s so joyful and full of promise’: a modernism exhibition aims for hope

    At a new exhibition at the Whitney in New York, a look back at early 20th-century modernist art offers optimism and also a rare diversity

April 2022

  • TS Eliot.

    Weatherwatch
    TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times

    A century on, modernist poem’s visions of a desiccated landscape still resonate today
  • High Cross House at Dartington.

    12 destinations marking the arrival of modernist Britain

    In the centennial year of modernism, we visit visionary places where artists, engineers and architects imagined the future
  • The now derelict St Peter’s Seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute.

    Eyesores or treasures? Our modernist buildings still divide communities

    Letters: The best 20th-century architecture deserves gentle conservation, writes Catherine Croft, while Garth Groombridge says modernism failed to understand how people want to live. Plus a letter from Bob Caldwell

March 2022

  • The police station in Wrexham, demolished on 1 November 2020.

    We trash our modernist heritage on a whim: why is Britain so in thrall to the wrecking ball?

    Owen Hatherley
    Between destruction and conservation there must be a middle ground – perhaps a new life – for these eminent buildings, says author Owen Hatherley
  • Finlandia Hall Helsinki Finland<br>A8C1WA Finlandia Hall Helsinki Finland

    A Finnish furniture designer? Alvar Aalto deserves higher praise

    Letters: His wonderful buildings put him among the great architects of the 20th century, says Andrew Dailey
  • The living room, with two Marcel Breuer long chairs and a Robin Day sofa

    Modernist love: stylish 1930s living in the Isokon building

    This design masterpiece in north London was once home to celebrated artists, architects and writers. Meet the man who has made it his dream home
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