Modernism
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Facing the Modern: early 20th-century Viennese art gets London show
7 Oct 2013:Exhibition to showcase how Austrian capital's ethnic and religious diversity inspired great artists such as Klimt and Schiele
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The world was in disarray, shattered by the first world war and heading into a second. Out of this chaos came the modernists - a group of utopian designers with thrilling new visions of what the future could hold. But was anyone ready for this brave new world? Robert Hughes introduces its key players - and discovers how many of their dreams still survive. -
Sally Watson, assistant curator of the Royal Institute of British Architects drawings and archives collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, gives her pick of outstanding modern buildings to visit.
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Simon Jenkins: The human misery of crumbling estates is the malign legacy of these aesthetic authoritarians and their machine fetish.
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17 Aug 2014:The 1900s Paris art scene blazes into life in Sue Roe's high-pitched study, writes Peter Conrad
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8 Aug 2014:
Opium, wooden clothes, the origins of cubism … Sue Roe paints a rich portrait of the modernists in their early years. By Mary Ann Caws
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31 Jul 2014:
Digestive biscuits, Bisto, Red Stripe, KY Jelly and Men’s Health magazine ... Lucy Sparrow has sewn the contents of a newsagents out of felt for her installation The Cornershop
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15 Jul 2014:
From communal Roman bathrooms to a Russian space station toilet, view a history of human ablutions
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13 Jul 2014:
An exhibition devoted to the great American architect Louis Kahn has much to marvel at, though it isn't the whole story, says Rowan Moore
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4 Jul 2014:
South America's modern art revolution hits you like a guerrilla attack in this dazzling survey at the Royal Academy. Prepare to see things differently, says Jonathan Jones
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1 Jun 2014:
As a V&A show of the late painter's final triptychs opens, Tim Adams recalls meeting him when he was a youthful 91-year-old
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30 May 2014: Jonathan Jones: The row around Marina Abramović is redundant, as the story of art is one of homages and remakes. But that's not to say there isn't a problem
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9 May 2014:
After the second world war, St Ives was the home of some of the world's leading modern artists. For too long their work has been characterised as local – a diversion from abstract expressionism, argues Chris Stephens
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24 Apr 2014: The bunker-like headquarters of the Yorkshire Post are being bulldozed to make way for a car park – yet another piece of Leeds brutalism on its way to the concrete knacker's yard. What a shame to see this modern marvel erased from history, says Christopher Beanland
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8 Apr 2014:
The artist's eponymous new collection parodies modern living, one brutal MDF settee at a time, writes Jonathan Jones
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28 Feb 2014:
With migraine-inducing blizzards of dots, rooms full of booby-traps and a Jacko soundtrack, the ever-provocative Tobias Rehberger's new installation in Frankfurt feels like modernism gone wonky, writes Adrian Searle
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20 Feb 2014:
The Lluís Domènech-designed house, in one of Barcelona's famed modernista blocks, has been restored and now offers tours of its ornate first floor in Catalan, Spanish and English
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4 Feb 2014:
London's Dulwich Picture Gallery celebrates David Hockney's 60-year career as a printmaker, with an exhibition of over 100 works, from meetings with Picasso to his 1954 self-portrait with NHS glasses
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23 Jan 2014:
Jonathan Jones: Call him a hack, call him a fascist but, on the 25th anniverary of Salvador Dalí's death, it's time to admit the Spanish surrealist made modern art popular and accessible
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