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  • UCSD: A Built History of Modernism


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    At just a little over 50 years old, the University of California San Diego  is one of the younger college campuses in the United States, but despite this it is one of the most architecturally fascinating universities around. In the official UCSD campus guide , Dirk Sutro emphasizes that “UCSD does not have a ...
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  • Modernism: Past the Dynasty and the Mad Men


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    Images like this one used to be depictions of the impersonality, alienation, and anomie of modern life. Perhaps the retro chic and post-feminist nostalgia of Mad Men has changed the way we think about mid-century modernism, but the show is more likely to be a symptom than a cause.  For whatever reason, these ...
    1 week ago
  • Fuse Book Review: The Fine-Spun Harmonic Furies of William Gass’s “Middle C”


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    Despite "Middle C"’s relative cheeriness, the novel passes a tough sentence on the human race, so uncompromising that its protagonist has a hard time writing it down.
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  • A Critique of the Men’s Rights Movement


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    he issue of Men’s Rights has recently come a long way since it first branched off from the men’s liberation movement in the early 1970′s.  Formed in response to second-wave feminism, the MRM often opposes what they feel to be societal changes sought by feminists.  Today, the Men’s Right’s Movement ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Madonna sells Fernand Léger’s modern material girls


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    The singer has sold a painting by Léger to fund girls education: the works modern beauty is a paean to strong women
    2 weeks ago
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  • Madonna sells Fernand Légers modern material girls


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    The singer has sold a painting by Léger to fund girls education: the works modern beauty is a paean to strong women Fernand Léger invented a new kind of modern beauty. No wonder Madonna bought one of his works, and no wonder she has just made $7.2m from selling it with Sothebys in New York . The painting Madonna ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Just a Few Wednesday Links


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    * The University of Pennsylvania is working on new guidelines to limit its professors’ freelance work for online education companies. *  The researchers note that either no debt or minimal debt appears to be the norm for white and Asian Ph.D. recipients, but not other groups. Black Ph.D. recipients in STEM ...
    2 weeks ago
  • A Crash Course on Modern Architecture (Part 1)


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    Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup is associate Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. This article originally appeared on  GRASP. This is where one has to quote William Gibson:”The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Within architecture (and design and planning), there ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Ellie Andrews Wonderful Illustrations Are Inspired By Modernist Architecture And Textile Design


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    Another incredibly talented, young, bright illustrator called Ellie Andrews has come up on my radar. Her work is a clash of styles that somehow live together in perfect harmony; bold geometric shapes, hand drawings, textures and wonderful pastel colours that look like they escaped from the 1980′s. What I love ...
    2 weeks ago
  • New England, IBM and the Architecture of I.M.Pei


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    A trip to New York a couple of weeks ago brought surprises on many different levels. Firstly a reunion with an old school friend I had not seen for forty years, secondly a night in a hotel that put Alan Partridge to shame and thirdly a close up look at the architecture of I.M. Pei in the shape(s) of the IBM site at ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Living with Modulor Man - Cité Radieuse


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    Modulor Man welcomes two visitors to the Cité Radieuse in Marseille. We are all imperfect versions of Modulor but despite this he offers us shelter in an ideally proportioned structure and an accelerated progression into an inconceivably sublime future. The question is – are we really worth it? To fully inhabit the ...
    2 weeks ago
  • 1950’s Modernism: A guide for the clueless.


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    What is characteristic of Modernist architecture? Do the major design features involve steel and glass? Was the design machine-inspired? (does it look somewhat like a machine?) Do the upholstery’s and fabrics look like those found at www.maharam.com ? Does the design lack unnecessary details? Does its form ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Heart energy connects the world!


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    “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? I just came across a youtube that disturbs me somewhat. It starts off by … Continue reading →
    3 weeks ago
  • Kissing Cousins


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    Getting What We Want Post-modernism has been called an anti-philosophy.  It asserts there is no truth, only perspectives.  It has lots of "kissing cousins" in the modern world.  Historicism, for example, asserts the same with respect to history: there is no meta-narrative of history--no over-arching, linking ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Pedra Branca; New York and painting cities.


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    Cmbirela with Pedrs Branca, oil on card, 14.5 x 18 cm Pedra Branca, lost dog, oil on card, 13.5 x 14.5 cm I watch with a mixture of bemusement, horror and a sort of perverse admiration as I see another town being constructed here. Brazilians have heard of planning, they even have a planned ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Albert Frey (via Darren Bradley)


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    Albert Frey (via Darren Bradley )
    3 weeks ago
  • Quid de nocte?


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    Those who have attentively read  Iota Unum , Romano Amerio’s magisterial study of the doctrinal chaos in the Church since the last Ecumenical Council, will never, I think, forget its ending. After 750 pages of analysis almost incredible, and painful, in its objectivity and patience, a supernatural  afflatus   ...
    3 weeks ago
  • LESBIAN ACTIVIST’S: GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT IS A ‘LIE’ TO DESTROY MARRIAGE


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    LESBIAN ACTIVIST’S SURPRISINGLY CANDID SPEECH: GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT IS A ‘LIE’ TO DESTROY MARRIAGE. Sometimes there is a topic that just keeps popping up in society and MSM. One of … Continue reading →
    3 weeks ago
  • The End Of The Era of Dissent?


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    Dissent will always be around in the Church, if it werent you might have to check your pulse.  However, in the past 50 years, its fairly common knowledge that modernism ("Cafeteria Catholicism" where you pick and choose what you want to believe) has spread nearly everywhere. Pat Archbold at the National ...
    3 weeks ago

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