Word: modernist
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...Aspen, a search for an alternative to the modernist vision...
...York, the institute was originally called the Museum of Modern Art in Boston. Located in a brownstone on Beacon St., the museum served as a venue for the traveling exhibitions of its New York parent, and at the instruction of MOMA, it concentrated on the Northern European modernist painters, leaving the New York branch to deal primarily with the Paris school of modernists. For some years this was a most fruitful setup for the tiny Boston MOMA. Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, and Georges Rouault were virtually unknown in this country when the ICA first exhibited their work...
Aldredge's costumes, which tend towards satin and well-tailored fits, flatter the actors well, as do David Mitchell's sets and Tharon Musser's skillful lighting Mitchell creates a lovely art-deco Parisian living room, with a satin chaise, modernist artwork and large, slanted windows. And Katselas also surrounds his principals with accomplished performers Cullum, who won Tony Awards for Shenandoah and On the Twentieth Century, blends naivete with an almost treacly love for Amanda to create a character who seems unbeatable despite his efforts to the contrary. With a breathless voice, and a fey, almost stupid demeanor. Walker...
Sert sought to bring "a new creativity" to the Harvard campus. Huson Jackson, a business partner of Sert, said yesterday. "He was not content to continue building in the old Georgian and Victorian style," Jackson said. As part of this effort. Sert brought the prominent French modernist architect Charles Le Corbusier to Harvard in 1963 to design the Carpenter Center, the tamed designer's only American work...
...tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Sunnylands is a modernist San Simeon on 208 acres. Built in 1964 at a cost of $5 million, the mansion alone covers nearly an acre. Inside is a major collection of impressionist (Renoir, Monet) and postimpressionist (Gauguin, Van Gogh) paintings...