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modernism

[mod-er-niz-uhm] / ˈmɒd ərˌnɪz əm /


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Vossler Smith said that during a kickoff event for the nearly 500 volunteers who help with Modernism Week, she asked for a show of hands from “our Canadian friends.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Works from The New Sacred Art Movement are currently on show in the landmark Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Utterly and unapologetically aestheticized, it reveled in its surfaces, while Modernism had everything from the political to the spiritual on its mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Modernism Week, a biannual celebration of midcentury architecture and design, returns to the desert city Feb. 13-23.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

Modernism had been an accident; Sun Yat-sen wished to transform it into a program.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony




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