A show of 10 artists working from the 1910s to ’70s demonstrates that the movement was much more diverse than its most notable names suggest. When it comes to Brazilian Modernism, Tarsila, as ...

What modern is: introduction -- Space opens up -- Staging modernity: the aesthetics of the future -- A new style of life: artifacts of modernity -- At home in the brave new world -- Buildings like ...

Illuminating. Informative. Surprising. Perplexing. All of these apply to the large, ambitious survey “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist. Here is one. The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite ...

A new book invites us into the tight-knit circle of women modernists in late-19th-century Denmark through quietly subversive gestures; you’ll never look at a glove the same way again. That moment ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” aims to disrupt the way we think of art history—not only in Africa but globally. Featuring 59 artists working over a period of 50 years, the 300 artworks in the show ...

Lloyd's of London Building / Richard Rogers. Image © Diliff, via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 Modernism's legacy extends beyond its physical forms, influencing the ...

Architects at the office of Mahmoud Riad looking over a maquette of the League of Arab States Building. Image © Cairo Since 1900 This article inaugurates a new ...

The action of two of the best-known novels of the early 20th century, James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” is structured so as to present an individual’s entire history ...