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Modernism
September 14, 2021
Damion Searls
The Impossible Life of Fernando Pessoa
The Portuguese writer lived through dozens of detailed alter egos. How much does his real identity matter?
April 2, 2019
Magazine
Max Holleran
The Dean
Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.
March 20, 2019
Magazine
Jeet Heer
Adventures in Modernism
The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport
August 24, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Why Brutalism and Instagram Don’t Mix
A new exhibition of Yugoslav architecture at MoMA is a refreshing antidote to the online world's obsession with minimalism.
August 30, 2014
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
The Great Architect Rebellion of 2014
This year's Venice Bienale demolishes the popular notion of modernism in architecture
February 16, 2014
Jed Perl
The Armory Show Made Modern Art Something You Love to Hate
Against the cult of novelty
October 5, 2013
Jennifer Homans
The Crisis in Contemporary Ballet
How emotion left dance
August 16, 2013
Edmund Wilson
From the Stacks: “Ulysses”
July 5, 1922
March 4, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Becoming T. S. Eliot, for Better and for Worse
Eliot's Letters from 1926-1927
February 21, 2013
Adam Thirlwell
How Baudelaire Revolutionized Modern Literature
Humiliation as a Way of Life
July 26, 1980
Mark Crispin Miller
In Memoriam—Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"He was among the greatest artists of this century."
May 23, 1949
Lincoln Kirstein
Centrifugal, Centripetal
January 14, 1940
W.H. Auden
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