American Modernism is usually thought of as limited to New York City in the decades following the turn of the 20 th century. The towering skyscrapers and heavy machinery dominated iconography of ...
In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...
Despite its historical focus, the text opens and closes with the present, underscoring the legacy of Pan-American cultural policy, in all its universal utopian aspirations and localized humanist ...
The story of American modernism is being rewritten and the Norton Museum of Art is taking part in that conversation with its concurrent spring exhibitions. "From Man Ray to O’Keeffe: American ...
The Multicultural Modernism of Winold Reiss (1886-1953): (Trans) National Approaches to His Work, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2022. Cover image: Winold Reiss, "Isamu Noguchi" (c. 1929). National Portrait ...
Architecture matters. It narrates our cultural history and shapes us as humans. Intellectuals in Britain understand this, in their way, and have raised aesthetic objections to the transformation of ...
What could be a more appropriate—and instructive—companion to the Whitney Biennial, the always controversial selection of today’s adventurous artists, than a reminder of what preoccupied their daring ...
From the September 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Οn Grosvenor Square in London’s Mayfair stands the American exception. The capital has almost no significant buildings by the ...
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