Art Exhibit Opening Reception Landscapes of the West' at The Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, June 15, Santa Fe, New Mexico - Broadcast Newsroom (press release) (subscription)
26 May 2012, 2:51 pm
The show runs from June 15 to July 11. Academic, modernist, and en plein air landscape painting was a staple of Santa Fe galleries. Now, these modes are an endangered species in New Mexico. The tradition of landscape painting will be kept alive in this ...

Bold vision in Baltimore - The Vancouver Sun
26 May 2012, 6:02 am
A unique exhibition of works by Henri Matisse and other modernist artists collected by two sisters from Baltimore in the early part of the 20th century opens today at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The two sisters, Claribel and Etta Cone ...

Matisse and the birth of modernism - The Vancouver Sun
26 May 2012, 5:04 am
The big summer exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery is full of vibrant, colourful works by Henri Matisse and other early 20th century modernist artists who were exploring new ways of representing the world in painting, drawing and sculpture. Called ...

Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter by Emmanuel Cooper - The Guardian
25 May 2012, 3:00 pm
Even in old age the potter Lucie Rie, slight, immaculate in white, could be dauntingly rude. I wanted to write "direct", but this doesn't capture her ability to speak in a way stripped back from social niceties. Years later I realise that it was ...

Photo Essay: Modernist New Delhi - Wall Street Journal
25 May 2012, 4:37 am
Sringar-based photographer Madan Mahatta “never ever imagined” that his stills would adorn the walls of an art gallery six decades after they had been clicked. Mr. Mahatta, now in his early eighties, returned to India after studying ...

At last, modern architecture is protected - Times of Malta
25 May 2012, 1:38 am
Built after World War II, these modernist style buildings from the 1940s to 1960s have finally come under the jurisdiction of Malta’s planning authorities Twenty-eight iconic structures and monuments around Malta, mainly built during the ...

Touring North America's Iconic Modernist Homes (PHOTOS) - Huffington Post
23 May 2012, 8:36 am
Anyone with a pile of money can build a big pile of a house, and back in the day, that's what you did. (See, for instance, Downton Abbey.) But during the 20th century, a group of architects staged a controversial revolt. Why, they asked, couldn't less be ...

Pa. art collection completes controversial move - YAHOO!
18 May 2012, 2:39 pm
Barnes' jaw-dropping cache should have been uprooted from its cozy confinement in suburban Merion and transplanted to a modernist box on the museum-studded Benjamin Franklin Parkway. But like it or not, the Barnes' long, strange trip has reached its final destination.

Warren Buffett Is A Very Odd Paper Boy - Forbes
17 May 2012, 6:58 pm
The News operates from a small, squat building downtown, a modernist structure with thick stone and jutting overhangs. The newsroom inside seems to contain more empty desks than full ones. When a reporter passed away a few years back ...

The Modernist Classic Eames LCW Recovered - Examiner
15 May 2012, 6:54 pm
Herman Miller introduced the “LCW” or Lounge Chair Wood by Charles and Ray Eames in 1946. The chair has become a modernist icon that is as contemporary today as when it was first produced.  The chair matched simple sculptural forms with what was ...