Tag: modernism

  • America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper

    As the US charged headlong into the 20th century, as its cities grew skywards and consumerism began to bubble up like the champagne at Jay Gatsby’s parties, some of modernism’s biggest names stood back and took stock. And the world…

  • A New Era: Scottish Modern Art, 1900-1950

    At a time when the UK’s relationship with the rest of Europe is at stake, this exhibition of the artistic dialogue between Scotland and the continent is illuminating and inspiring

  • Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion

    Unravelling some of the interwoven and incestuous tales relating to the 20th-century modernist protagonists in their rural Sussex settings, this exhibition is as compelling narratively as it is aesthetically and politically

  • Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk: ‘Material dictates the way you relate to the fact you describe’

    The Russian immigrant artists talk about the difference between art education in the former Soviet Union and in the United States and the importance of using materials as expressive means in their work

  • Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s

    A beautiful exhibition of the Ukrainian avant garde’s theatre design from the 1910s and 20s is establishing a sense of identity for the art of a nation that has been split between its historical ties to the union with Russia…

  • Ben Johnson: interview

    Studio International visited the Alan Cristea gallery to talk to the painter Ben Johnson. This is his second exhibition at the gallery, comprising five new paintings of half-real, half-imagined interiors. Born in Wales, a graduate of the Royal College of…

  • American Modern – A Canon Revived

    American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 17 August 2013 – 26 January 2014

  • George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life

    The Sackler Wing of Galleries Royal Academy of Art, London 16 March—9 June 2013

  • In the Kingdom of the Gods and Goddesses

    Then, in 1975, an even more remarkable underground city was discovered in Chandigarh. For 18 years, humble, self-taught Hindu artist, Nek Chand, had been secretly constructing an extraordinary folk art environment. Although Chand called it the Kingdom (nagri) of the…

  • Art & Today

    Eleanor Heartney London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2008 Art & Today is the fruit of the decade spent by the author as contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress. Her previous works include Postmodernism (Movements in Modern Art)…