Modern History Archive
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![Paris-based artist JAR creates works of sheer amazement and beauty. His jewelry is vibrantly colored, exotic and yet eminently fashionable in its use of both traditional and non-traditional metals and […]](https://i1.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/12/JAR_crop.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "Notes from the Field: Jewels by JAR at the Met")
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Notes from the Field: Jewels by JAR at the Met
Posted on December 24, 2013Paris-based artist JAR creates works of sheer amazement and beauty. His jewelry is vibrantly colored, exotic and yet eminently fashionable in its use of both traditional and non-traditional metals and […] -
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The Art and Letters of Josef Stalin
Posted on January 4, 2012A little over a month ago, newspapers announced the passing of Lana Peters. Born Svetlana Stalina, Peters was the only daughter of infamous Russian dictator Josef Stalin. After defecting to […] -
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A Brush with the Chinese Revolutionary Mood
Posted on October 19, 2011If you were lucky enough to wander through Beijing’s 798 District, you would come face to face with some of the most fresh, daring work produced by China’s up-and-coming artists. […] -
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Pacifist Art and Margaret Morris Take Us Above the Battlefield
Posted on August 30, 2011Inevitably, twentieth-century pacifism, specifically the hippie movement of the 60s, conjures images of flowers, peace signs, and tye-dye. But in Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, […] -
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The Feininger “Family Business”
Posted on August 2, 2011Covering the full breadth of Lyonel Feininger's artistic career, a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World", places him as a central figure in developing early 20th-century forms and the conversations that took place between German and American styles of art. -
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Jitish Kallat Gives Public Notice in the US
Posted on July 19, 2011On September 11, 1893, the Parliament of the World’s Religions held its inaugural gathering at the Art Institute of Chicago. The purpose was to create a global dialogue and conversation […]