Modernism Archives

Exhibitions

Dawn party

The Whitney Museum is digging back to the dawn of American Modernism

Mario Naves

A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization

Alexander Larman

Postmodern man is characterized by an obsession with technique and technology

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago

Xico Greenwald

Books

Celebrations of her novel Mrs. Dalloway should be more raucous than they are

Francesca Peacock

Books
January 3, 2022
One hundred years of Ulysses
James Joyce’s Ulysses caused a sensation on its publication a century ago
Patrick Hastings
Exhibitions
November 18, 2021
Prints of Wales and elsewhere
Amid the turbulence of modernism, British artists made art for themselves
James Panero
Book Review
June 21, 2021
Clive Bell: apostle of modernism
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism by Mark Hussey reviewed
Tom Williams
Architecture
April 25, 2019
Notre-Dame is an architectural nullity
Let Lord Foster – the man behind the greatest gothic structure of the past century – restore the roof
Jonathan Meades
Faith
April 20, 2019
Keep the modernists away from the Notre-Dame restoration
Reconstructions should aim to recreate and not transform the earlier style
Ben Sixsmith
Art
February 21, 2019
What I want from modern architecture
Architects need to stop aiming for the ‘iconic’ and focus on everyday beauty
Roger Scruton
Books
August 23, 2018
Modernist architecture isn’t barbarous – but the blinkered rejection of it is
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by James Stevens Curl reviewed
Stephen Bayley