Word: modernist
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...years, Le Corbusier, a major modernist architect of the twentieth century, was admired exclusively for his art, biographer Nicholas Fox Weber said last night. But many overlooked his personality in favor of his achievements, he added, addressing a small crowd at the Carpenter Center, the sole building in the U.S. designed by the Swiss native. Sharing anecdotes from the artist’s life, Weber, the author of a newly released biography, sought to introduce the man who was known as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris before his career took off. “Getting to know...
...making her Broadway debut as the daughter of Joe's disgraced business partner. Mrs. Cruise holds her own quite well. She's got stage presence, a voice that fills the theater, and if her line readings can seem a little strident, they are perfectly in tune with the haunting modernist symphony that McBurney has created. It's a revival to remember...
Renowned comics artist Art Spiegelman is currently reading Samuel Beckett’s “Murphy.” Though the Pulitzer Prize winner lamented that it makes for poor travel reading, his choice of the modernist author hints at the wide array influences on his work, from everyday advertising to the highest realms of literature. Spiegelman, the politically active artist best known for his creation of “Maus,” a graphic novel based on his father’s experiences in a concentration camp, has just released “Breakdowns: Portrait...
...Harvard Art Museum received a $45-million donation and 31 works by leading modernist and contemporary painters in a gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer—a former curator at the museum and wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, the grandson of the famous newspaper publisher—University officials announced today...
...storied fabric into schoolboy blazers nostalgic for jaunts across Cambridge's Bridge of Sighs. And with the recent sartorial resurgence, it's no surprise that tweed is migrating beyond lapels and finding its way into accessories like Etro's patchwork bag and Harrys of London's loafers. Alias' modernist Taormina chair proves that tweed has a life beyond its retro country-club image...