Modernism

A century ago, the novelists Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann depicted a world recovering from war and pandemic. What can we learn from translating their works today?

The artist’s exhibition at Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Esters in Krefeld explores architecture’s aim for social reform

The plan to codify a ‘classical architectural style’ for US federal buildings has become the latest front in the American culture wars

Shannon Bool’s show at Kunstverein Braunschweig calls attention to the exoticising and objectifying vision of Le Corbusier

A new book charts Theosophy’s influence on Western modernism

Once eclipsed by the men in her life, the architect’s supreme originality and energy are slowly being recognized

The avian playground was a manifesto for a modernism that could employ gymnastic engineering to theatrical effect – what happens with its inhabitants long gone?

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA

How the radical practices of female artists drove the Modernist movement in Brazil

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO bring Stockhausen’s Gruppen für drei Orchester to the Tate’s cavernous space, 50 years after its London debut

A show of South Asian art and its links to the UK at the Whitworth reminds us of a brief but important moment of British camaraderie

As London's Architectural Association celebrates 100 years of female students, rediscovering the city designed by women

Madan Mahatta’s historic photographs of New Delhi record a time when India was embracing modernist architecture

Eileen Gray's restored modernist masterpiece, E.1027, has finally opened to the public

From American Modernism to museum archives and the legacy of her artistic family, R.H. Quaytman telescopes time and place

The resurgence of interest in Italian Modernists demonstrates the European avant-garde’s influence on a new generation of artists

Delicacy, vitrines and Modernism; scaffolding, relics and arcades

Marko Lulic