Word: modernist
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...modernists rejoiced and made merry last week. With the opening of a great exhibition at the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan, they had captured one of the strongest citadels of conservatism. Never before had a modernist show been permitted there, and now the works of 33 modernists were on view. They celebrated artistically, mentally, physically, at the private view the day before opening. They danced to the music of mandolins and guitars in the dignified Grand Central premises. They drank tea and other liquids. They smoked cigarets in modernist defiance of signs that read "No Smoking." Some of them ranged themselves...
...dock. Her machinery and hull were unharmed, but delicate Louis XVI salons and cabins went up in curling smoke. They have not been replaced. Instead the Paris has been completely made over in the new style of Paris-L'Art modern, which U. S. citizens call "Modernist...
...Carnegie Institute International Exhibition in 1927, the first prize was awarded to Henri Matisse for his Still Life. Last week, according to Director of Fine Arts Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, the Carnegie Institute had successfully settled a second wreath on the wrinkled Matisse brow. Modernist Matisse would, it was announced, along with two other European and three U. S. artists, serve on the 1930 Carnegie jury; in order to do so, he would pay his first visit...
...Manhattan last week it became known that Modernist Composer George Antheil and Writer John Erskine were planning to collaborate on an opera, the heroine to be Helen of Troy. Composer Antheil, a native of Trenton, N. J., began his musical career in Paris, returned to the U. S. in 1927, won notoriety with his Ballet Mécanique scored for ten pianos, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, bells, a mechanical piano, a sewing machine motor, and an airplane propeller (TIME, April 25. 1927). Writer Erskine became famed with his smart satire, The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...British Mrs. Fiske") in St. John Ervine's comedy The First Mrs. Fraser. Pieces passed up by Their Majesties included Shaw's new Apple Cart, Barrie's old Dear Brutus, and a magnificent Gilbert & Sullivan revival sequence at the Savoy Theatre, now sumptuously rebuilt and gone modernist...