modernism

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All three of us share a focus on researching, archiving and documenting Black modernism and space.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Picasso’s Cubism introduced Lam not only to European modernism but also to its sources—African masks and totemic art, to which Lam, understandably, felt a familial connection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

Many of Lam’s forays into modernism, into the 1940s—dependent, almost to the point of parody, on Picasso—are schematic misunderstandings of Cubism’s spatial complexities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

An artist who was often described to have a nomadic and bohemian disposition, he dabbled seamlessly with Cubist-inspired modernism and traditional Indian themes, creating bold and vibrant canvases with scenes from history and mythology.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

I think he's writing about the long poem after modernism or something like that.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz