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a person with very modern ideas
a time when Paris was the center of the universe for modernists in the art world
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Recent Examples of modernist
News Desk,
Artforum,
23 June 2026
Against the home’s cleaner architectural lines, Burle Marx’s individual plantings read as painterly gestures, flashes of form and texture that give the grounds their modernist rhythm.
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Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Across four days and 13 concerts, Salonen threaded his contemporaries, neglected Italian modernists, Lutoslawski and Ligeti, Stravinsky with his own works into Ojai’s alfresco soundscape of birdsong, film screenings and experiments.
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Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Fosdick was part of the modernist movement in American Protestantism, which grappled with the implications of evolution and with new scholarship about the Bible’s origins.
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Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
Following a recent head-to-toe revamp, the 35-room Relais & Châteaux beauty exudes a 1950s modernist charm designed to mimic the surrounding Mediterranean seaside homes.
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Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
Despite being a major 20th-century modernist, Galentz’s canvases have long-evaded definitive categorization.
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The Editors Of Artnews,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
David Peace’s modernist Red or Dead, about the life of the legendary Liverpool coach Bill Shankly, left me frequently breathless despite having little emotional investment in the ups and downs of Liverpool.
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Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
The event, the highlight of a weeklong trip to Spain for Leo, comes 144 years after construction on the unfinished modernist basilica began and 100 years since the death of its famous architect, Antoni Gaudí.
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Claudio Lavanga,
NBC news,
10 June 2026
Ashley Mowreader,
NBC news,
13 June 2026
This is a masterpiece of modernist Chinese architecture and design from China’s first Pritzker Prize-winning architect Wang Shu whose work is a poetic alternative to the country’s generic glass and steel highrises.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 June 2026
Over the subsequent years, McCreary transformed the initially vacant land into an ultra-private, modernist compound spanning nearly 15,000 square feet of living space.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
9 June 2026
The Pines, for instance, is noted for gay revelry amid geometrically precise houses by Horace Gifford, Harry Bates, and other important modernist architects.
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Fred A. Bernstein,
Architectural Digest,
8 June 2026
In the middle of a sculptural fountain inspired by the Ilisos river, which once flowed through the neighborhood, stood a modernist iron snail, spouting water.
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Eleni N. Gage,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2026
That drone touches down at the address of architect Otone Komoto (Haruka Ayase), who designed her family’s modernist home, an arrangement of overlapping boxes stacked around a garden courtyard.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
Also featured are a pair of mid-20th century works by modernist pioneers Oscar Howe (Yanktonai Dakota) and George Morrison (Ojibwe).
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
The Neue Galerie is known for its deep holdings of German and Austrian modernist art, including masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, at least one of which is worth more than $100 million.
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Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
14 May 2026
Noun
Pei’s prolific architectural output, which is distinctive for its modernist, geometrical style, is the stuff of legend.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
23 June 2026
Against the home’s cleaner architectural lines, Burle Marx’s individual plantings read as painterly gestures, flashes of form and texture that give the grounds their modernist rhythm.
—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Across four days and 13 concerts, Salonen threaded his contemporaries, neglected Italian modernists, Lutoslawski and Ligeti, Stravinsky with his own works into Ojai’s alfresco soundscape of birdsong, film screenings and experiments.
—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Fosdick was part of the modernist movement in American Protestantism, which grappled with the implications of evolution and with new scholarship about the Bible’s origins.
—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
Following a recent head-to-toe revamp, the 35-room Relais & Châteaux beauty exudes a 1950s modernist charm designed to mimic the surrounding Mediterranean seaside homes.
—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
Despite being a major 20th-century modernist, Galentz’s canvases have long-evaded definitive categorization.
—
The Editors Of Artnews,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
David Peace’s modernist Red or Dead, about the life of the legendary Liverpool coach Bill Shankly, left me frequently breathless despite having little emotional investment in the ups and downs of Liverpool.
—
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
The event, the highlight of a weeklong trip to Spain for Leo, comes 144 years after construction on the unfinished modernist basilica began and 100 years since the death of its famous architect, Antoni Gaudí.
—
Claudio Lavanga,
NBC news,
10 June 2026
Adjective
Gaudí’s radical, modernist designs were mocked in his lifetime but have subsequently been celebrated.
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Ashley Mowreader,
NBC news,
13 June 2026
This is a masterpiece of modernist Chinese architecture and design from China’s first Pritzker Prize-winning architect Wang Shu whose work is a poetic alternative to the country’s generic glass and steel highrises.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 June 2026
Over the subsequent years, McCreary transformed the initially vacant land into an ultra-private, modernist compound spanning nearly 15,000 square feet of living space.
—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
9 June 2026
The Pines, for instance, is noted for gay revelry amid geometrically precise houses by Horace Gifford, Harry Bates, and other important modernist architects.
—
Fred A. Bernstein,
Architectural Digest,
8 June 2026
In the middle of a sculptural fountain inspired by the Ilisos river, which once flowed through the neighborhood, stood a modernist iron snail, spouting water.
—
Eleni N. Gage,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2026
That drone touches down at the address of architect Otone Komoto (Haruka Ayase), who designed her family’s modernist home, an arrangement of overlapping boxes stacked around a garden courtyard.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
Also featured are a pair of mid-20th century works by modernist pioneers Oscar Howe (Yanktonai Dakota) and George Morrison (Ojibwe).
—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
The Neue Galerie is known for its deep holdings of German and Austrian modernist art, including masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, at least one of which is worth more than $100 million.
—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernist
Noun
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Stern is an angry liberal, someone whose entire perspective on the country, on sports, on entertainment, is based on the ideology of the president.
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Labour have, since the 2024 election, lost a number of voters to parties on the liberal-left of the political spectrum, be that the Greens and Liberal Democrats, or Plaid Cymru in Wales and the SNP in Scotland.
Adjective
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The finish is what sells it, and the modern methods aim to look like hair that’s always been there.
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Executive Travel And Leadership The modern executive is, functionally, a professional time-zone crosser.
Noun
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Some imagery on the shirt, depicting Haitian revolutionaries from the early 1800s, was declared political and therefore not allowed, having fallen foul of FIFA’s often quite stringent rules around kits at World Cups.
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The garments, designed by Stella Jean, a Haitian Italian fashion designer, featured a painting of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines’ fellow revolutionary.
Adjective
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Made up of sharp angles and straight lines, the quilt and its matching shams have a look that strikes the right balance between classic and contemporary.
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The small kitchen retains its midcentury charm, but open shelving above the counter provides an airier, more contemporary cupboard to show off Miranda-Martin’s dish and glassware collection.
Adjective
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The design is more modernistic than futuristic, different but still relatable.
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Front and center is a large blue modernistic disc known as a Keystone Sparton Nocturne radio from 1935.
Adjective
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The sentiments driving the music are ultramodern: self-aware, vicious and desperately vulnerable.
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Or, retreat to peaceful Bluffside Gardens with ultramodern cabins that offer direct trail access.
Adjective
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In 1873, Custer was assigned to lead the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Abraham Lincoln, near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota.
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First discovered in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system between 2013 and 2015, Homo naledi lived in present-day South Africa between 225,000 and 241,000 years ago.
Adjective
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Research by Justin Mankin, a Dartmouth geography associate professor, found current forecasts imply the 2026-2027 El Niño could be the costliest yet.
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Independent music critic Molly Mary O’Brien noted how the early-to-mid-’90s period that produced the original iteration of pop-punk fashion, and the current moment Rodrigo now operates within, are vastly different.
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