| 单词 | modernity |
| 例句 | Like any explosion of modernity, outsourcing is challenging traditional norms and ways of life. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z They went to the Reichssportfeld and came away impressed by the immensity and modernity of the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But this house was the essence of modernity. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z From the comfortable vantage of modernity, such magnitudes seem safe bets. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t resist a little modernity here and there; he sped around his lake in gleaming speedboats. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It is Weber’s conception of modernity which particularly draws our attention to this aspect of the Scientific Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Fashion and modernity and the rot at the Table’s heart were in hiding, and his great idea was on the move once more. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He shelved his newly completed fourth symphony, sensing that its dark modernity might make matters worse, and for a while retreated to the relative safety of film scoring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Thus their first appearance in a discipline marks a crucial moment in the history of that discipline, the beginning of what, in retrospect, we may call ‘modernity’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Even in modernity, the ages of darkness were not so far behind us. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There’s enough chintz in here to kill modernity. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z What Voltaire was to France, Franklin was to America, the symbol of mankind’s triumphal arrival at modernity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Beethoven’s genius was to convert their modernity into something that would, in due course, become the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This guy not only reformed the Danish legal code and pushed a backward nation toward the light of modernity. Movie Review: ‘A Royal Affair,’ With Mads Mikkelsen 2012-11-08T22:32:05Z But whole lives are revealed, along with the ever-charged roil of tradition and modernity, in the precise way he frames his characters' experiences, his rigorous craft tapping fathomless wells of history and emotion. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z He achieves, deftly and gracefully, the unity of inner life and political analysis that is a touchstone of modernity. The Miraculous Apu Trilogy 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Misunderstood children acting out may well be the very essence of artistic modernity. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z It recognizes that the intellectual history of modernity may be written in part as the epic tale of a series of rebellions against humanism. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And indeed the legacy of World War II, and the proof it gave of modernity’s easy descent into atrocity, linger in the background of Klossowski’s writing and art. Pierre Klossowski Drawings Explore Eroticism and More 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But her nod to modernity and individualism was the demure but noticeable diamond nose stud. How the Royal Wedding Might Influence Weddings to Come 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It suits Mumbai studios after column inches at home and abroad; it presents an image of plastic modernity for the Delhi elite, and it is hardly resisted by under-resourced cultural centres elsewhere in India. Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors 2013-07-22T19:00:01Z “The modernity for this shoot was the length of the hair. It didn’t actually take that long to do.” Why We Love the Bouffant 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The largest Picasso in the United States, it’s currently surrounded by a handsome and intelligent exhibition that places it in several contexts: Spanish art, Cubism, dance theater and the New York tradition of artistic modernity. Behind Picasso’s Curtain, the Ballet That Got Away 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The restoration of the twin Baroque fountains in the Piazza Farnese was an expression of an intervention that “solders the ancient to modernity,” much like fashion is intertwined with culture, Ms. Biagiotti said. Fashion Legacies of a Different Kind 2012-11-15T06:07:03Z The meld of heritage and modernity seems a particularly British combo. Design School Unites the Old and the New 2011-10-17T11:07:04Z A popular artistic response to the bewildering effects of modernity has been to retreat into simpler, pastoral or primitive states of mind. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Her work addresses the concerns of Iranian women of her generation and explores ideas such as censorship, religion and modernity. In pictures: From the Middle East 2012-11-13T01:05:32Z It's a welcome moment of modernity in an album that spends too much of its time looking backward. Faithless: The Dance 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z "I respect tradition but my modernity and my experience permits me to make it a certain way and show something more contemporary concerning Mali," she says. Rokia Traoré: 'I wanted to keep positive and sing about how much I love Africa' 2013-03-29T08:00:06Z But even as fashion brands are using neon to showcase their modernity, they’re also hoping to invoke our nostalgia. Tired of Twee Edison Bulbs? Bring On the Neon 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The British fear of modernity once refused to see their beauty. Shard attack: why don't we rise up against this monstrosity? 2011-04-12T12:07:04Z He’s reacting to and engaging with pop modernity, and he’s also a landmark of Puerto Rican-New York culture, part of the cultural survival process. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z There's all this modernity and yet there's all these weird shards of memory, of simplicity. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z As humanity dismally fails to rein in its energy demands, here is a chance to enter a world before electric light, before the great illumination that is modernity. Candle-lit theatres belong in the past 2013-04-23T14:20:39Z This in-depth research into melds of different fabric is part of the success of Hermès as a beacon of modernity. Lanvin Tops Summer 2013 Men’s Collections 2012-07-01T15:12:47Z Ariosto’s perspective offers clues to why Cuba remains poised on modernity’s cusp. The 10 books to read — and gift — in December 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z If a wave of modernity had washed over Kathmandu, it certainly had not reached 7,000 feet. Assessing a Quake-Shattered Nepal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z As World War I turns the family manse into a military hospital, the daughters and servants of Lord Grantham get into all sorts of messes and try to cope with impinging modernity. 'Downton Abbey' leads critics' picks 2012-01-08T04:05:44Z What I'm attempting to bring to the organ is modernity and globalisation, because I want to play the world's greatest organ in Tokyo and at the Royal Albert Hall. Manchester International Festival 2013: Cameron Carpenter's organised noise 2013-06-10T11:25:27Z But this sometimes uneasy conflation of modernity with bygone days is perhaps suited to a book that sits at the intersection of historical and detective fiction. A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z And though the Haredim shun aspects of modernity, the banquet-hall plastic seats are packed for the showings. Filmmakers Who Are Ultra Orthodox and Ultra Committed 2012-10-21T03:13:01Z Try "Emi," which mimics Austen's rhythms and quirks, but injects just enough self-aware modernity into the mix: The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It would be an apt prediction of the splashy new projects appearing in this Mediterranean city, which has recruited titans of fashion and architecture to inject some style and modernity. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z The gothic nature of “The Blair Witch Project” seemed a bracing counterpoint to the modernity that marked much of American culture at the turn of the millennium. ‘Blair Witch’: Shaky Cams That Left Audiences Shaking 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z This bustling modernity lent a special, incongruous magic to the shingled Old Quaker Meeting House, built in 1694 and still in use by the Religious Society of Friends. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Sebald is too delicate, too oblique to explicitly link the silkworm to terms such as capitalism, globalization, modernity, totalitarianism, historical trauma, or, finally, genocide. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z The curator might also have focused more on Mr. McQueen’s modernity. Exhibition Review: Alexander McQueen in All His Dark Glory 2011-05-02T13:00:52Z These energetic portraits of modernity were directed by Godfrey Reggio, but they relied on the visual standards set by Mr. Fricke in the first installment and propulsive scores by Philip Glass for their full splendor. ‘Samsara,’ Ron Fricke’s Cinematic Portrait of the Globe 2012-08-17T20:13:02Z “Elevator to the Gallows” isn’t a New Wave film, but it is significant for its proto-New-Wavishness, its efforts toward originality and modernity. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z But one organist in particular, who led his first record date at the age of nineteen, in 1960, pushed the jazz organ headlong into modernity: Larry Young. Larry Young’s Self-Questioning Jazz 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Her way of mixing historicism and modernity, vintage and designer clothes and extraordinary accessories in her own appearance was legendary. Memorial for a Legendary Editor 2012-09-16T18:22:03Z Calcutta, for whom modernity was its "bread and butter", becomes a kind of alimentary canal, a place one apprehends with the stomach as much as the eye or ear. Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri – review 2013-04-06T06:01:32Z At the very start, Burke could be contrasted with Joseph de Maistre, who found adaptation to modernity to be indistinguishable from surrender to it. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z They all involved a disgust with modernity in the West and tried, in different ways, to destroy its culture and institutions. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Memorials: Many Perspectives, Few Answers 2011-09-02T23:58:41Z But there was always an incongruity between the sumptuous, historic building - its staircase is a masterpiece of the period - and the chaotic modernity of Picasso. Picasso Museum sees grand reopening 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The message: Hahn is a composer of modernity, not solely of the Belle Époque, with which he is usually associated. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The people are not overly enticed by the temptations of modernity. Q&A: Dow Griffith, Location Manager, Scouts the World for the Film Industry 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z It seems to me an abrogation of responsibility to deal with the impact of modernity on both the individual and the collective consciousness. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z Both men and women were on the runway, and Mr. Simons dressed them in almost identical looks, emphasizing the fact that ease, action and modernity are not gender-specific concepts. At Calvin Klein, Raf Simons Raises the Bar 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z But by the 1920s and 1930s the idea of glamour was tightly bound up with modernity, and particularly with Hollywood. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z This charismatic troupe will traverse a large swath of Irish history — from mythology to modernity — in a two-hour spectacle called “Rhythm of the Dance.” 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z And that seems to run parallel to the way we’ve always mourned musicians in modernity. This is how we will say goodbye to the rock-and-roll generation 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Orchestrated and reported by wireless, the appalling spectacle of trench warfare implicated the medium in another void of modernity, the barren expanses of what came to be called No Man's Land. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z The fusion of cultures and tastes and, in this instance, culinary styles may well be, as the filmmakers imply, the inevitable outgrowth of modernity. Fall Fashion’s Artful Mash-up, Subtle and Worldly 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “At one point I refer to the story as a trailer for modernity, a set of coming attractions,” Toobin said. Jeffrey Toobin, Patty Hearst, and the mad mad 1970s 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Instead of a disenfranchised peasantry clinging to tradition in the face of modernity, contemporary British cinema finds a demoralized postindustrial underclass fighting for dignity at the margins of the global economy. Movie Review: ‘The Selfish Giant,’ Directed by Clio Barnard 2013-12-19T23:03:38Z I was in Saipan early enough in its journey to modernity that poached bat was still the house specialty the first time I stayed at the local Hilton. Fare Play Around The World 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z And Sheridan was already cooking up a pet project, a TV series about a stubborn Montana rancher fighting to defend his land from encroaching modernity. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Reflexivity—the depiction of the material and practical conditions of the filmmaking within the film itself—is a canonical maneuver of cinematic modernity. The Front Row: “Taxi” 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Now, having figured out how to listen to modernity with the entirety of his body, he hears everything. Perspective | Can Iggy Pop hear the future? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z This is not to claim that Ross pays no attention to the impact of technological modernity on 20th-century classical music – he most certainly does. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z And in the ancient city centers, there was a sense that modernity had been purposefully kept at bay. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z She changed subtly — or sometimes dramatically — the streamlined modernity of her work, adding sparkles to simple sleeveless jackets and piling on a ginger fur bolero. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Couture Finale 2014-01-22T18:40:00Z Presumably only if it can be established that the nebulous malaise diagnosed by so many writers is a genuinely distinctive and widespread feature of western modernity. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z It’s not too much of a stretch to see such images as the depressive aspect of Faustian modernity, a mood soon to be realized more nakedly in Picasso’s Blue Period paintings. ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy’ at the Met Is a Journey Back 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Africa is calling for those designers who want to offset streamlined modernity with something more earthy and tribal. Special Report: Fashion: Carlos Miele, Carolina Herrera and Marc by Marc Jacobs Focus on Blending Inspirations 2011-09-13T15:54:16Z One of the central aspects of his radical modernity and his enduring influence is his breaking of the boundary between performance and performer, between actor and person; his movies are recordings of personal relationships. The Rarely Seen Ingmar Bergman Thriller That Bergman Himself Rejected 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Thus, “Satin Island” is as much a pocketbook of philosophy — on the complexities of technology, language and modernity — as it is a conventional novel. ‘Satin Island,’ by Tom McCarthy 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z With the Louvre to one side and the Pompidou Center to the other, this upstart in the cultural life of Paris combines tradition and modernity. A Self-Styled ‘Troublemaker’ Creates a Different Paris Museum 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z A small and often silent man, as kind as he is morally rigorous, Foyle stands guard over basic humanity as the whirlwind of war and modernity threatens to uproot the good with the bad. A case for an Emmy (or more) for 'Foyle's War' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It did, but we did not embrace modernity as a headlong rush into the future. Signposts to the modern age 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z These songs’ vocals were malleable instrumental color to enhance overall sonic expression and convey feelings such as alienation, or fear of modernity. In defense of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Gaytten described it as “sculpted volumes, graphic print and pure color to explore the modernity of dressing.” Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Sweet Tranquility 2012-10-01T18:52:38Z Popularly known as Les Transmusicales, the festival is a sort of South by Southwest for the French set — a slice of modernity in a town steeped in the centuries-old history of Brittany. Overnighter: In Rennes, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-17T21:26:14Z “What we are doing,” he told me in Florence, “is trying to bring modernity to Italian coffee.” One American’s quest to teach Italy — the motherland of espresso — how to do it better 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The filmmakers’ first task was narrowing the list of possible locations to four countries that, in their opinion, reflected very different points on the continuum between tradition and modernity. Film: ?Babies? Documentary From Balm?s Chabat 2010-05-08T02:54:00Z “The spread of modernity in India threatened caste but also made the need to assert it more vehement,” he writes. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z In fact, Jabugo’s quiet cobblestone streets, dotted with modest bars where local workers meet for afternoon drinks, showed no signs of modernity. 2010-01-14T03:45:00Z “Agujetas is a ferocious enemy of modernity,” read the program notes. Music Review: Manuel Agujetas at Elebash Recital Hall 2012-05-23T22:02:03Z And our tribe turns out to be a savage one: the countryside harbours forgotten cruelties, with the old ways untouched by modernity and marked by half-remembered rituals. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z One could argue that every great fantasy novel is, as this would seem to be, a quarrel with modernity. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Though Yorke is not a trained dancer, he is a convincing physical presence here, pushing against the tides of modernity in both literal and metaphorical ways. Thom Yorke’s “Anima” Is His Best Solo Album 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z "Cuisine does not measure itself in terms of tradition or modernity," it says. Pierre Gagnaire's Twist On French Cuisine 2010-06-10T15:10:00Z Now open at the Guggenheim Museum, the exhibit features more than 360 works positioned throughout the famous rotunda by artists, architects, designers, photographers, and writers who sought to abolish the past and champion modernity. The Guggenheim Celebrates the History of Italian Futurist Art and Design 2014-02-26T05:00:00Z The ethos of modernity is fused with Asian artistic heritage. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z But of all the elements designed to inspire emotion, it was a one-shoulder asymmetric dress that seemed to catch best the simplicity of modernity. Fashion Review: Trying to Break Boundaries 2014-02-20T19:32:57Z “When you came here, it was the dream of cosmopolitanism and modernity that Mexico started living in that period.” Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The public gushed over the terminal itself, with its pale blues and friendly yellows, its ceiling of domes, the glass facade spanning 1,600 feet and, most importantly, its space and modernity. Goodbye to Gate 35X, cursed portal to the rest of America 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z “I think that’s true of the buildings as well. The buildings are conventional-looking and that tends to throw you off the scent in terms of their innovation and modernity.” In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z In a way that few documentary texts do, it makes us leave the baggage of modernity at the trailhead. 50 Years On, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ Still Haunts and Inspires 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z It isn’t hyperbole to suggest that the Beatles taught the kiddos of modernity how to feel their emotions, let alone how to sing them. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z A visit there is a step out of modernity and into a fairy tale. Does Paris Still Have the Ugliest Opera House in Europe? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z They reimagined the upward gaze as an escape into another dimension of feeling – away from the relentless forward momentum of modernity. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z There’s a modernity to this Amy, fresh as a lemon wedge. How Jacqueline Durran, the “Little Women” Costume Designer, Remixes Styles and Eras 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Yet this modernity fits just fine with the stone building and its pastoral grounds peppered with whimsical statues. Nymphenburg Porcelain Gets a Fresh New Look 2010-04-26T14:01:00Z Innovations in engineering in the second half of the nineteenth century produced two materials key to the retail window and other commercial systems of European modernity: cast iron and plate glass. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z “There are still no Turners in the royal collection. They didn’t get it; that’s the thing and that is fascinating. It’s the modernity of the guy.” How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The narrative gently pulls back and forth between respect for tradition and acknowledgement of modernity, but the final message is resoundingly clear: things need to change. Netflix’s “Little Miss Sumo” makes a compelling plea for upending sexist traditions 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a reflection of Turkey’s unique traditionalism and modernity.” An Examination of the Nude Figure in Turkish Art at the Pera Museum 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The binaries of good and evil are no longer useful, and neither is simplifying the problem of religious extremism between two poles, secular modernity and fundamentalist brutality. A Movie That Dares to Humanize Jihadists 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z I prefer T. S. Eliot’s view that “the conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically.” Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Aquaman's status as an object of ridicule and degradation both reflects and symbolizes the status of oceans in modernity. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Rural Suffolk County, in Mr. Blythe’s depiction, was a hermetic, semi-feudal society, a place out of time where life was shaped by the cycle of the seasons and modernity had little purchase. Ronald Blythe, Scribe of the English Countryside, Dies at 100 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z A tiresome, postmodernist meditation on the aesthetics and sociology of cosmopolitan modernity, Mr. Kuitca’s art exudes a dour, unfocused mood. Art Review: The Bowery?s New, Narrow Showcase for Art 2010-09-23T20:55:00Z And Mr. Williams has pushed toward a more natural, less insistent strain of jazz modernity, in his writing and in the metabolism of his own group, Sound Effect. Review: Ben Williams Steps Up on ‘Coming of Age’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z What remains, nevertheless, is deeply telling, not only about Bernini but also about modernity in general. Art Review: ‘Bernini: Sculpting in Clay’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-10-04T22:43:07Z These black-and-white portraits and other images capture lives at the intersection of tradition and modernity. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Extraordinary Women to Van Gogh’s Letters 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But each pas de deux became an inexpressive nothing; the dancers drew attention to their own skill and their modernity like models showing couture. Lucinda Childs and Alvin Ailey Troupe at Fall for Dance 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z “After the Rain” and “Within the Golden Hour,” well danced on both Friday and Saturday, show that Mr. Wheeldon is perfectly capable of that modernity. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z And conscious of history, he felt that type should both acknowledge tradition and reflect modernity. Hermann Zapf, 96, Dies; Designer Whose Letters Are Found Everywhere 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z I would say modernity was gone by the First World War. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z For me what is striking is the registration of a fundamental change in what European culture on the threshold of modernity would consider really real. Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z It was "the first movement to use religion ... against development, progress and modernity". Is the Arab world ready for a reading revolution? 2010-04-16T10:19:00Z Slouching, it seems, is the quintessential posture of modernity. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Awareness of this trend probably accounts for the recent art trade emphasis on clarity and monumentality and the striking progression of 20th-century modernity. A Gathering of Treasures 2010-09-17T18:00:00Z This collective forgetting — or rather, repression — denies the centrality of oceans in the making of modernity. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z It is a scribe’s crutch, a gimmick that tries to pass off laziness as a with-it modernity. Press stop: why Hollywood needs to quit relying on the vlogger 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Leisure time itself was a marker of the modernity of these Parisiennes, and that extended beyond the city and onto the coast. From the Beach to the Boudoir 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But it was the variations and innovations in knitwear construction that truly showed how committed the brand is to both fine craftsmanship and modernity. 2010-01-19T05:09:00Z Such attractiveness, assurance and devotion to modernity are all so welcome onstage that I’m sorry I disliked every item in this program. Dance Review: An American and a Dutchman, Both With Worldly Cool 2010-07-22T22:22:00Z It’s partly, I’m sure, about conquering fears, but this is also about escaping the trappings of modernity and escaping the constraints of society. An adrenaline-starved adventure traveler looks back at five close calls 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “I am looking forward to working together with its ateliers and teams, to move it into a new era, based on modernity and inclusivity,” Mr. Williams said in a statement. Matthew Williams, Collaborator of Kanye West and Lady Gaga, Is Givenchy’s New Designer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z No inventor did more to nudge the world toward modernity, and few had a better feel for what the next generation of inventors might pursue. An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Calling a collection “Renaissance Rock” suggests a wild mix of history and modernity. Fashion Review: Trying to Break Boundaries 2014-02-20T19:32:57Z He found his way to modernity in isolation, without ever trying to fall into line with any group. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Hence, the notion of innovation became a mantra for the design team, who strove to tell the story of modernity through the hotel’s spaces. The Glittering W Lakeshore Hotel 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Wonder Bread soon became a symbol of technological advancement and modernity. Baking our way through survival 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The curators will also be making a claim about cultural resiliency, insisting that tradition need not be in tension with modernity. A mixtape of Basque culture and California sounds coming to the Mall 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z In the cultural lexicon of modernity, self-will is often banally understood as brattish, selfish behaviour. Why parents should leave their kids alone 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z Mr. Lauren’s sweet tooth for a pastel past is tempered with modernity. Special Report: Fashion: Reviews Spring/Summer 2012: Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schouler 2011-09-15T16:56:47Z The modernity of the modern cinema takes place in many dimensions—most conspicuously, in the image and in performance. A Cassavetes/Rowlands Series at Metrograph 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The choppy waters of modernity are materializing on the horizon. ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ Review: Gilded, Aged 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Are his real gifts for story and character, but his inclinations for abstraction and modernity? City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z “And Rodney Scott was, from Day One, this kind of bright, energetic, telegenic personality. All those ingredients, the kind of tension between tradition and modernity . . . all that stuff was in place when I showed up.” How a small-town pitmaster turned a dying cuisine into the stuff of celebrity 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z In fact, modernity — in particular, American agricultural modernity — also seems to produce a callow form of waste. Exhibition Review: ‘Our Global Kitchen,’ at American Museum of Natural History 2012-11-24T00:51:08Z But it was also a dazzling example of how to breathe modernity into cultural references - in this case, traditional Japanese style and architecture. On the Runway Blog: Prada's New Flower Power 2012-09-20T19:59:38Z Mahler's Fifth, written in 1901 and 1902, is the great transitional work between the 19th and 20th century with analogous questions about nostalgia and modernity. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It was a network and a symbol — of movement, ambition, metropolitan growth, modernity — as much as a thing. Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z “The queen mother’s clothes were a reaction to the intense fashionability of the duke and duchess of Windsor, whose style was about modernity and a modern royalty,” Mr. Bolton said. Queen Elizabeth II Sets a Style Standard 2012-06-01T16:59:27Z This heartbreaking debut novel considers questions of fidelity and commitment; the tensions between tradition and modernity; and the break between society’s expectations and a woman’s own. New in Paperback: ‘No Apparent Distress,’ ‘The Destroyers’ 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Clearly, this is meant as a metaphor for the battle of wills between these two headstrong men, but it’s a fascinating visual reminder about seats of power that have been sanitised by modernity. Hard men of God: a guide to cinema’s most badass priests 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z In France, real modernity — considered in the exhibition book to have been championed by the supporters of the antiquity fad — would beckon a decade later in the landscapes of a genius named Corot. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z Values clash and negotiate — Christian and Muslim, urban and rural, tradition and modernity — and corruption and religious extremism are constant reminders of political instability. | 'Position Among the Stars': ?Position Among the Stars,? From Indonesia - Review 2011-09-14T22:08:25Z Her legs went higher and her feet were more arched than those of almost all others; her range was from the 19th-century classics to the latest modernities. Goodbyes to the Lord of the Dance and Mademoiselle Non 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z His work holds in balance the tensions between visionary revelation and realism, design and colour, painting and sculpture, showing the ambiguities of his world, on the cusp of the middle ages and modernity. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z That show expressed the futuristic modernity of streamlined tailoring against a backdrop of moving escalators, from which Mr. Simons, for the first time, showed his face at the finale. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z Mendelsohn, a classicist by training, may be criticism’s answer to Michael Jordan; highbrow, lowbrow, antiquity, modernity, Sappho, “Suits” — he can do all the moves, as these essays, sparkling with insight and erudition, show. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z They have been abandoned by modernity, swept away by an economic reality that doesn’t care about them or their children or anything else, for that matter. BREAKING: “I have found and befriended a lower-middle class white family”: The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z This was especially true in those countries that were the most underdeveloped — and that thus embraced modernity with a special fervor. Architecture Review: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting 2011-07-05T21:43:47Z No one believes that El Greco was a prophet, that he foresaw industrialization, the invention of photography or the rise of modernity, and painted accordingly. Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Here, they’re performed in attractive practice costume — the women wear loose tops and shorts, the men T-shirts and black tights — that heightens their modernity. Review: L.A. Dance Project’s Eclectic Balancing Act 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Today, the house “is about modernity with a mix of wit and elegance,” Ms. Crahay explained. Maison Michel: Handmade Accessories 2012-10-03T22:26:59Z While some embrace modernity, others struggle, but not in the areas you might think. TV highlights 11/07/2012 2012-07-10T18:59:01Z In a city exploding with the modernity of Abstract Expressionism, this meant “nice but old-fashioned.” The Artist Beneath the Art Forger 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z But the program notes revealed that some of the more interesting effects were done with techno fabrics, a smart way of bringing modernity to tradition. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: A Forward Flow 2010-03-10T18:45:00Z Her understanding of modernity has developed from watching and listening to the tales of novices. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z His parents “made modernity their religion,” and Mo was, “if not an atheist himself, certainly agnostic, which perhaps made him not a Muslim at all.” Books of The Times: The Right Architect With the Wrong Name 2011-08-15T22:30:12Z All draw on their personal resources to confront the unsettling forces of modernity dashing toward them. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z Its styling – a skin of brushed aluminium with a panel of inlaid leather – flattered the user, advertising modernity while hinting at gentility. Elegy for the Polaroid 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z But despite these symbols of modernity, an Old World, locally focused sensibility defines how many restaurants operate. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The spirit of the late 1950s was brash, gimcrack modernity. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Here modernity and primitivism meet, with a touch of humor. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z There was a lot of the designer’s heritage, including the college student look of duffle coat or boyish patterned sweaters, but the overall effect was of elegant modernity. Special Report: Fashion: Hats Off to Easy Elegance 2011-01-24T18:21:28Z But surely the essential insight to keep in mind is that terrorist nihilism is an inevitable and recurring product of modernity. Open Letter to a Friend in Paris 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The Israeli boutique hotel brand Brown Hotels adds a zip of modernity to the ancient city of Jerusalem with this 23-room property set in a picturesque 19th-century villa in the heart of the city. New Hotels With a Wintertime Appeal 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Extending ballet with such bracing modernity that it still seems new, the work also remains classical in its clarity; no moment is wasted; everything connects and contributes to a juggernaut force. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Furthermore, if there is a crisis of modernity, it encompasses not just ontology but also aesthetics. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z Raised in a conservative political and Protestant family that thought of modernity as monolithic and evil, "the thing that weirded me out," he said, was that he loved the works of writers such as T.S. Northwest Christians explore faith, art and culture 2011-04-22T23:34:36Z In Delaherche’s vase and Guimard’s planter you sense a burgeoning spirit of modernity, a feeling for new possibilities of creative freedom. Art Review: In ‘Making Pottery Art’ at the Met, Beauty Is Political 2014-02-13T21:07:22Z The reigning architect of sensual modernity, the collector of Damien Hirst and Willem de Kooning also embraces the noble creations of the past. Conjuring Temples of Deep Desire 2010-07-19T13:50:00Z However, this is not done in the name of modernity but of religious dominance. 'Unruly Places' is a guide to weird, ruined and wonderful spots 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Much of Keiller's output since Robinson in Space has been concerned with the Blairite period of fervent and doomed hope regarding Britain's potential urban modernity. Robinson in Ruins 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z It’s a mild shock whenever someone uses a cellphone — a rare reminder of modernity. Review: In ‘Ta’ang,’ Burmese Refugees, Displaced and in Limbo 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Griffith was both a boldly inventive filmmaker and a reactionary who looked with horror at modernity in all its varieties. The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z At 82, his one concession to modernity is a flip phone that his assistant wrangled for him. Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z It's a running joke for us to liken our progress and modernity to the Mehter – the Ottoman military band that once inspired western classical composers, such as Mozart. London Book Fair: Elif Shafak on Turkey's progress 2013-04-12T15:00:02Z What they cover up is Wilson's own rejection of a modernity that has replaced Dante's "common culture" with a jarring, jabbering diversity of tribal cults and personal belief systems. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z Mr. Critchley’s funereal tableau is not beautiful, but it effectively expresses an exasperation shared by many about modernity’s economic and ecological trajectory. Art in Review: CHAD PERSON: ?A Hero Never Fails? 2011-08-18T20:45:26Z This Havana-based troupe combines Spanish flamenco with contemporary dance and Cuban rhythms for infectious performances that honor both tradition and modernity. Dance Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Some revivals of “Streetcar” accentuate the social context, turning the play into a commentary on modernity’s final erasure of the antebellum South. Theatrical victory belongs to Blanche in 'Streetcar' opera 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Paris of 1881, when “Little Dancer” takes place, was bracing itself against the onrush of modernity. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical He grunts and growls with occasional Chewbacca whinnies; he huffs like a mill owner, or like one of those steam engines of the Victorian age whose encroaching modernity makes Turner so uncomfortable. Cannes 2014: Mr Turner review – Timothy Spall plays artist JMW Turner with relish 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Shop windows are the lovechild of modernity’s restlessness and capitalist obsession with the new. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z A long skirt would slip off to reveal a peppy short dress, delicately decorated — just right for a modern bride who wants to combine tradition with modernity.” | Bouchra Jarrar Wins! 2011-01-25T20:21:06Z “These people are attracted to the combination of modernity and accessibility.” Inside Art: Josh Smith in Venice And Connecticut 2011-04-14T21:03:10Z Fox places Conan Doyle’s quest for justice for an immigrant Jew in a larger picture of a hidebound society moving toward modernity. New in Paperback: ‘Give Me Your Hand,’ ‘The Seas’ 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z There are nods to modernity, including the incorporation of texting and uploading silly videos to YouTube, but the movie never goes overboard with it. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Second Time is Charming 2011-03-24T15:55:00Z Kent & Curwen describes the clothes as a "meeting of heritage and modernity," and fittingly there is a strong sporty element — think striped rugby shirts, T-shirts and casual outdoorsy jackets. Stripes and sparkles at day 2 of London Fashion Week 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z While reveling in its cleverness, I found the relentless imposition of modernity on the Santa myth a mite depressing. Arthur Christmas: Santa Goes Corporate 2011-11-22T16:00:38Z Given all this, it's little wonder that writer and critic Kevin Jackson would feel confident enough to claim that Machado "invented literary modernity, sui generis". A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z New footwear is inspired by a 1939 shoe with an elastic sock inside; while the designers also saw the modernity of a 1959 shoe with a thick pear wood heel finished off with metal. Special Report: Fashion: Extras With Artistry 2010-09-28T17:50:00Z What starts as a conflict between tradition and progress morphs into a vision of a sham modernity that rests on the rot of unquestioned injustices. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z On your wall is a piece of Abstract Expressionism, an island of modernity in a mainly 19th-century sea. His Passion Emerges Annually. He Hangs It on a Tree. Or Three. 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Not unlike Singapore itself, he is poised between two worlds, linked to modernity and tradition. A Multifaceted Singaporean Painter Breaks Barriers 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Rousseau’s more radical move was to position himself against the project that we now call modernity; he practically invented the category of “the people,” whom he identified as victims of top-down decisions and value systems. The Anti-Élite, Post-Fact Worlds of Trump and Rousseau 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z With a studied knowledge of Russian history, he sees their hectic modernity through a sociologist’s eye. Werner Herzog: 'I'm not a pundit. Don't push me into that corner' 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z "The point, I think, is that appearances mask quite different realities in the milk-bar modernity of mirrors in which the character is sitting, trapped between endless reflections," says Stock. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z “It’s modern in the context of modernity,” he said. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z It was there, in early modernity, that the Luther-Locke-Jefferson line carried the secular vision into the sunlight of Reason. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z Our understandings of modernity and our shaping of modernity is what causes this kind of balance. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z The conductor, Riccardo Frizza, said that he was aiming to match the production by bringing out “the modernity of this score,” with a focus on transparency and emphases on certain words in the libretto. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Locke’s version was distinguished by his ideas about migration, modernity and the city. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The survival of a moderate conservatism, a conservatism that accepts and is comfortable with modernity and liberal democracy, is indispensable to the stability of our polity as a whole. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Set against all this tradition, Markle is a stark contrast in modernity. When Harry weds Meghan: A week until Britain's royal wedding 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s impossible to come to a place like Ladakh without ruminating on what the encroachment of modernity might mean for the status quo. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one Toomer’s experimental mesh of forms and lyrical language made black experiences “the metaphor for the human condition” and modernity itself, Mr. Gates and Mr. Byrd write. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z So how did this notion of modernity enter into the design of the building? David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The superstitions in the film come from family members, and the older generation, and things I grew up rejecting in favor of modernity. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The most imposing works throughout are panoramic views of majestic mountains, rivers and forests, in which a range of robust textures and scratchy, dry-brush markings impart a vigorous, sometimes wild sense of modernity. Art Review: Fu Baoshi, China?s Master Modernist, at Metropolitan Museum 2012-01-27T00:09:56Z As these Black thinkers and artists foreground, the modern world was created by slave ships, and moreover, that the Black Atlantic is central to the story of modernity. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The couple’s shared appreciation of history, modernity, sophistication and graciousness starts with the treelined motor court. Rob Lowe 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z The A&P promised abundance, bright colors, modernity, Cheer, Joy and All. Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z On a postcard of earthrise as seen from the moon, though it’s still sort of funny, the same drawing bears witness to modernity’s grandeur. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Its contrasting combination of severe modernity and classicism, its angular strangeness and folk-dance ease, the staggering inventiveness of its two pas de deux all retain the force of the new with every encounter. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z They move into crumbling houses on the city’s outskirts before being raked by modernity into tall and disorienting apartment buildings. Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z For the French second half, Slatkin turned to Debussy, the composer most responsible for the birth of French modernity at the start of the 20th century and another world altogether. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Whereas decolonization in the classic sense was a political, territorial project with no inherent grievance against modernity, today’s “decolonial practice” is about changing systems of knowledge — a woolier, potentially endless project. Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z "East Africa was full of that mix and I then moved to West Africa, which was colonial, but burgeoning with independence ideas, a new modernity being built, new ideas about music, life and literature." David Adjaye's African architecture inspiration 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z The state apparatus is the fig leaf of efficiency, rationality and even, modernity in a system that is an ideological construct of the most absurd kind. A Separation can't be divorced from Iranian politics 2011-07-05T12:13:51Z In both cases, with a modernity that should put the younger choreographers to shame, man and woman were seen to dance as if in dialogue, and music sprang to life. Royal Ballet’s Focus on British Choreography Exposes Its Limits 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Like others in his generation, including the composer Richard Strauss, modernity was an episode, not a religion. Review | The Félix Vallotton exhibition at the Met is not to be missed 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z I think many people don’t realize how much the popularity of Obama is not just simply because he’s black, but also because he’s part of this modernity. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z This old-fashioned yarn is also a rollicking satire on our faith in modernity. Editors’ Choice 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The pressures of modernity may be muffled by his penchant for sly understatement, but are palpable in almost everything he draws. Art Review: Edward Koren at the Wallach and Luise Ross Galleries 2010-05-20T21:44:00Z The tension between modernity and tradition is always on display at this annual series, whose lineup blends the new and the old. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It’s the essence of a quickly moving world, which is modernity. ‘Wozzeck,’ the 20th Century’s Most Influential Opera, Turns 100 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But this flavour is dissipated by the puzzling "splintered how" and the seeming modernity of the climatic "my now". The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z Going backward is charming only to the exceptionally privileged—those who have tired of modernity and would like to try something else for fun. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z In the 1960s, under the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee, South Korea underwent a rocket-speed shift from poverty to industrialization — what the book’s editors refer to as “compressed modernity.” A Full View, at Last, of Modern Art in South Korea 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Reporting on four generations of one Chinese family and their diverging paths, Xinran shows how the country’s social norms have changed through politics and the rise of modernity. New & Noteworthy Books, From Italian History to Asian Politics 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z They starkly silhouette the role of the artist’s model as collaborator, as incisive measures of modernity, mirroring the racial attitudes of both artists and their times. A Long Overdue Light on Black Models of Early Modernism 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Cole Porter set the bar high for songs about modernity in 1934 with Anything Goes. Readers recommend: songs about modernity ? the results 2011-01-13T16:36:31Z At that time, the sinuous curves of the Art Nouveau movement were being replaced by linear modernity. Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z “Our great references were the Palm Springs architect Albert Frey,” Waddington says, “and those incredibly iconic gas stations of the 1950s, when the car was this bold symbol of freedom and modernity.” T Magazine: London's Next Big Restaurant? Shrimpy's 2012-05-29T20:51:22Z Then modernity bursts in, in the shape of a sharply observed, callow TV crew making a film about environmental degradation. The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai ? review 2011-08-25T23:05:01Z It is surely a comment on the modernity of Michelangelo that it took a modern composer to match his language. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z “Bodybuilding culture is some grotesque subculture that is a product of modernity,” he wrote. The Lindy Way of Living 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The finished product is considered the finest piece of musical theatre ever written, a sweeping artistic expression of a period in which the world was swiftly moving towards modernity. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z There's an almost jagged modernity to the 1930s recordings of them by Pablo Casals, who championed the suites in the early 20th century. Joshua Roman to play a Bach cello marathon 2011-11-23T17:40:09Z So that sense of displacement — which I would also argue is a fundamental feature of modernity — is something that interests me. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z Both are great auks making do in a world of modernity and muddle. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z The word “falsetto” has roots in the Latin “falso,” and critics of the practice were plentiful before modernity rolled around. What does it mean when the Weeknd hits a high note? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Suddenly, our vaunted modernity seems of a playful piece with ancient multicultural practices. Valerie Jaudon's paintings: The more you look, the more you're pulled into her world 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z In one concession to modernity, the museum decided to renew the antiquated lighting system with 2,400 LED lights that are slightly brighter, and much more energy efficient. A 6-Year Refit Winds Back the Clock at a Berlin Landmark 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Rather than attribute a crime like this to backwardness, we would do better to see how deeply it is woven into the fabric of migration and modernity in which all of us are implicated. Shafilea Ahmed's murder is a crime meshed in migration and modernity 2012-08-05T19:30:06Z But for now, at least, modernity’s creep had far to go. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z I started on the second floor in an orientation gallery, which explains the cultural explosion that happened when east-west trading routes were established in early modernity. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z Johann Hari’s book “Stolen Focus” and Jacob Ward’s book “The Loop” discuss how technology and modernity are negatively and chronically affecting our brains and behavior. Why Can’t We Pay Attention Anymore? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z I am always hesitant to 'touch' classic masterpieces to infuse them with modernity. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Between those two books, modernity and mass culture were born. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z For Taseer, Benares incarnates a curious quality of modernity: the city makes anthropologists of the devout and believers of the skeptical. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z At the same time, others construed even the most slothful forms of idleness as a bold resistance to modernity's greatest ills. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Monet here captures the passing romance of modernity, the sad beauty of stations, steam, farewells. Show me the Manet – the week in art 2013-01-18T13:34:13Z A character philosophizes on the dizzying pace of change in the late 19th century: “We’ve no say as to the pace of modernity’s advance. I myself am merely its vessel, a humble foot soldier …” Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It could have been a discordant note amid the sparkling sophistication but instead it created an impression of streamlined modernity, and kept nostalgia at bay. Couture in the Shadow of the Women’s March 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It encompasses interesting takes on democracy and technology, shifts in demographics, revolutions in economics and the very nature of modernity. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The women are members of an agrarian religious community that has kept its distance from modernity. ‘Women Talking’ Review: The Power of Speech 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Wright is an artist of visionary modernity and a painter steeped in the traditions of his craft. Richard Wright's stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum 2013-03-14T13:19:05Z “International contemporary art was seen in Russia as a symbol of modernity, a return to the West. Now it is a symbol of politician subversion,” said Akinsha. A Surreal Feel at a Wartime Venice Biennale 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z From the start, with its debut album, “Funeral,” in 2004, Arcade Fire has pondered matters of life and death, community and solitude, memory and modernity, justice and spirituality. On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The new generation of craftspeople seems to intuit this as it balances tradition and modernity in a city that’s gone from remote outpost to being back at the crossroads of Eastern and Western Europe. Journeys: In Vienna, A Bespoke Tradition Thrives 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z These are small matters, however, against a bigger picture of a world on the cusp of modernity, with Conan Doyle standing Janus-faced, looking forward and back between scientific method and spiritualism; between liberalism and tradition. When the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Exonerated a Convicted Murderer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z And the old-worldliness of it all suffuses Islay, which exists on the fringe of modernity. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z "Eschewing strict historical accuracy and embracing an amalgamation in the imagination," the show was intended to provide a new take on modernity, he said. Dior holds French royal court in Death Star for Paris show 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Many questions were raised: questions about the relationship non-Europeans have with European modernity, and with European culture in general. The Tate Modern at 10 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z He sees stacked stone as fundamental to his concept, explaining it as a pre-modern surface that will show off the modernity of the sculptures displayed in front of it. Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Jekyll and Hyde Year 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Darwin's very presence in the village seems to radiate a field of doubt, and change, like electricity – the harbinger of modernity, as we are reminded here. Mr Darwin's Gardener – review 2013-06-25T10:29:10Z Barges laden with hundreds of tons of coal drifted silently down the Mississippi, but often my view across America’s mightiest river was unblemished by any evidence of modernity. Perspective | Summer reading shouldn’t be a chore 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z They are out of time: Their encounters with modernity, with the counterculture, tend to confirm their squareness. 'Mad Men' open for business again in Part 2 of final season 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Also, for such modernity, London, in this filming, had an oddly Gothic feel. Sherlock; Dispatches: Britain's Witch Children; Orchestra United 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Arikha's deft combination of classicism and modernity proved highly popular with the right sort of clientele. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z When Rosalía first broke through, she was engaged in a tug of war between tradition and modernity. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The terms and risks of movies themselves are built into Antonioni’s films; that’s why they remain works of an exemplary, audacious artistic modernity. The Front Row: “The Vanquished” 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The new CD’s title comes from a 1974 book of the same name whose subtitle refers to “the Jewish struggle with modernity.” Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z In the decades to follow, other Latin American countries would follow suit, embracing new styles of architecture to create public housing, government buildings, and other structures that would become international symbols of modernity. A New Book Looks at Latin American Architecture 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Chezere Brathwaite, 50, who lives in Los Angeles but is originally from London, cheered the ceremony for combining modernity and ancient rituals. African-Americans hail UK royal wedding's nod to black history,... 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Their experience of modernity offers insight into many aspects of our lives, and clues as to how we might address some big sustainability questions for the future. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Affluence Without Abundance’ 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Calcutta was an antithesis of both the suburban and the natural; it constituted, for me, during those visits to my uncle's house, my first, and at the time only, encounter with urban modernity. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z Beneath every historical interlude of hedonism lies a foundation of nihilism, and the Deltas’ gleeful anti-everything ethic looks frightfully familiar in a modernity reaching a critical mass of disgusted cynicism. Animal House at 40: why the slobs v snobs comedy remains essential 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Ghesquière is one of the best designers at adapting the reality of the everyday life with a strong vision for modernity, and Mr. Pinault said he expects Mr. Wang to build upon that legacy. An American in Paris, Again: Alexander Wang at Balenciaga 2012-12-07T23:22:34Z It is a smile amused by the follies of men, and by the forward strides of modernity, such as they are. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Sixteen months after “Promises” opened, Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” arrived on Broadway and the modernity of its sound would have been unthinkable without Bacharach’s innovations. For Burt Bacharach, ‘Promises, Promises’ Was One Broadway Hit Too Many 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z This home has truly old bones, dating from about 1750, but has been lovingly renovated to integrate all the conveniences of modernity you could desire. The legendary allure of Britain's AGA stove 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Where Mr. Oliveira perceives deep and sometimes tragic continuities between antiquity and the present, Mr. Godard finds fragments, including splinters of the lost dreams of modernity alluded to in his film’s title. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z The target this time is the terminal of an underwater telephone cable that connects Portugal to the rest of the world, an attack that, as one instigator says, would be to “bomb modernity itself.” Stan Douglas’s ‘The Secret Agent’ Offers a Refracted Vision of History and Terrorism 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In her design for the hotel, Crasset says she was motivated by “the idea of a dialogue, a type of symbiosis between tradition and modernity.” | Tunisia Moderne 2011-03-16T17:58:19Z And the collapse of a common truth in the late 20th century was as much a function of modernity and post-modernity as of political malfeasance. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z But now – in the discontinuous world of modernity, where relationships are casual and work comes and goes – such belonging feels strange and even sinister. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The asking price for the antiques of modernity are in line with those paid at auction for top Art Deco pieces from France. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z In these paintings, as their contemporary Karl Marx said of modernity, all that is solid melts into air.• The impressionists, Degas and Shepard Fairey – the week in art 2012-06-29T10:18:23Z In the early decades of the 20th century modernity was frequently summarised as a sort of disorienting coruscation. Light fantastic 2013-01-26T09:00:44Z From the moment the New Guineans choose to aid the stranded Americans, their culture is jerked forward into a callous, evangelizing modernity. Extreme Travel of ?45 2011-06-03T16:51:51Z The most compelling conflict in “Mo” pits modernity against tradition. Mohammed Amer Is a Salad Bowl 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Julien fits a great deal into 50 minutes: not just the tragedy of human trafficking, but a shorthand, parodic account of China's march towards modernity. Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe 2010-09-29T20:30:00Z Where Oliveira perceives deep and sometimes tragic continuities between antiquity and the present, Godard finds fragments, including splinters of the lost dreams of modernity alluded to in his film's title. 'Film Socialisme': a Godardian voyage that ebbs and flows 2011-08-04T20:00:15Z "Comfort is the true definition of modernity," he likes to say. Elbaz puts his fingerprint on Lanvin 2011-11-14T17:59:04Z Heretical as it may sound, I skipped the poems and went straight to the stories — about the people, crazed cows, hooch-making, and more — which so vividly and viscerally bring home what’s been lost to modernity. Why Gish Jen Hasn’t Read One of the Most Acclaimed Books of 2019 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z If Mr. Fan belongs to a new generation of Internet-savvy filmmakers schooled in Western liberal ideas, his spiritual, intellectual and cinematic influences reflect both ancient tradition and modernity. Film: Following Workers? Trails of Tears in China 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z Its scenes contain nuggets of information that seem to convey the very nature of integrated modernity, of high government policies and granular practices, of abstract thought and physical action, of the very nature of power. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z At the summit, views over the forest, uninterrupted by modernity, stretched to the horizon. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi” isn’t about characters wedged between tradition and modernity. A Debut Story Collection, Filled With Characters Humbled by Love 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In the end he accepts that below-replacement fertility “is the fundamental fact of civilized life in the early 21st century” and that it “looks like an inevitable corollary of liberal capitalist modernity.” Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Her novels and short stories focused on the details of Irish life and the friction between tradition and modernity. Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish writer, dies aged 72 2012-07-30T23:18:52Z Christopher is a truly great talent who has shown a real sense of modernity. Youth Is Beautiful 2013-01-16T18:48:37Z Armenia is an ancient wine region trying to harness modernity. An international wine is fine, but I’d rather taste the place in Virginia 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Now it’s also true, and I think this is Kierkegaard who’s very aware of this in the 19th century, that there were emerging conditions of modernity that accentuate this problem. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z The Impressionists were gripped by social life at the opera, the cafe, the seaside; the Nabis, two decades later, saw just as much modernity at home. Best Art Books of 2021 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Punctuating the rustic landscape were unexpected flashes of modernity — a white cube, a terra cotta wave of arches, a celestial-looking Grecian moderne edifice — that housed the wineries. A sip-to-sip tour of the ‘Sonoma of Spain’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s not the most progressive narrative but this is an emblem of a bygone era of Bollywood film-making, one on the cusp of modernity yet still inhibited by tradition. My streaming gem: why you should watch Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z They can find among Bacevich’s selections evidence that conservative anxiety about the cultural consequences of modernity has a distinguished American pedigree. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z In the age of modernity, the old neoclassical Euston Station and its grand arch were torn down and replaced with something resembling a provincial air terminal. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Random, meaningless and incoherent modernity is still many decades in the future. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z This latest refinement carries a whiff of retrofitted modernity, like a space capsule upholstered in chintz or a Microsoft Kinect game of croquet. The TV Watch: Ye Olde Yule Log Now Blazes in 3-D 2010-12-23T20:28:14Z Any national discussion about the struggle to reconcile womanhood with modernity tends to begin and end with one subject: parenting. Motherlode Blog: Can Parents Stay Friends With the Child-Free? 2013-08-06T21:17:56Z Less tolerable were the loud, ever-present strains of “Macarena” and the detritus of modernity: nonbiodegradable trash littering the shore and the reef. Review | This summer: Audiobooks that make you feel like you’re on a vacation 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Such images are a reminder of the unevenness of life in Africa, and of how the price being paid for a notional modernity is the displacement of people and the eradication of the original environment. Life Along the Mosquito Coast 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Rather, we hope to give a new vantage point on Chinese passage to modernity that is in a way half-Chinese and half-American. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z And others see it as a clash between modernity and tradition. "A Separation" builds Iranian Oscar hopes 2011-12-30T15:48:29Z By the late 19th century all those mounds would have been gone in the interests of lawn mowing and modernity. How to Read a Graveyard by Peter Stanford – review 2013-05-03T18:00:03Z At Tradita, which opened in February in the Norwood section of the Bronx, it is made in a great wood-fired pizza oven that looms in a corner, a concession to modernity. From a Pizza Oven in the Bronx, Albanian Specialties 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z These are meaningless European notions of chronology, urban order and modernity grafted on to the living reality of 21st-century Muslim life. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z Its monumental forms express Mr. Pei’s ideal of a world in which modernity and tradition exist in perfect balance. Critic?s Notebook: Building Museums, and a Fresh Arab Identity 2010-11-29T19:10:00Z In almost every one of the 54 outfits, in the purposeful use of craft, Mr. Simons made a link to the modernity and energy that Christian Dior brought to fashion right after World War II. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z Degas’s relationship to modernity was more complex and fraught. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Movies and radio are the twin progenitors of the modernity we inhabit. In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Like Jackson's Way, these were charming, idiosyncratic narratives about men struggling to make sense of alienating modernity. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z So any modernity from these women would be threatening to them and frightening to them. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The Knick is about taking the past and dragging it into modernity. Mercy Street: PBS civil war hospital drama is ER version of Downton Abbey 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z “Agon” was at once recognized as a beacon of radical modernity. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z Her clothes, Ms. Symons said, “have the right mix of fluidity, youthfulness and modernity.” On the Runway Blog: Historical Dramas Play Out in Fashion, Too 2013-04-19T18:41:40Z The car-free carriage roads in a way became a hedge against modernity: Both summer people and locals would always have a place to escape the clattering engines of a mechanizing world. Don’t call it relaxation. On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z A city was once defined by its walls; in modernity, the city has been defined by the absence of walls. Exhibition Review: Folger Library Traces London’s Rise 2012-06-28T22:04:46Z It’s impossible to come to a place like Ladakh without ruminating on what the encroachment of modernity might mean for the status quo. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one South of Billings, a massive hydroelectric dam project will bring jobs, new services and modernity, but 50 miles of canyon will disappear when water rises behind the dam. ‘Painted Horses,’ by Malcolm Brooks “It’s that shift, that moment of modernity,” Ms. Waters said. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “All this up/down, privilege/third world, modernity/primitivism is based on these cardinal directions,” said Ms. Fernández, who stripped such assumptions from her representation of the world. For Teresita Fernández, Personal Is Political 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z And you begin to wonder to what extent the film is a critique of an entire society in which the disparity between tradition and modernity is irreconcilable. Review: In ‘About Elly,’ a Middle Class Enjoying Itself Is Engulfed in Change 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The original film was made with brazenly mercantile yet artistically sound intentions, and, despite its vulgarizing touches, it’s a crudely effective story about tradition and modernity, misogyny and resistance. What to Stream This Weekend: “Poor White Trash” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z One hour later, Lanvin laid down the lines for a 21st-century futurism, an expression of modernity that flashed fashion fast forward and created desire for innovation. Lanvin Tops Summer 2013 Men’s Collections 2012-07-01T15:12:47Z Stark and minimalist — except for a fantastical bureau drawer — Debra Booth’s set hits the right notes of unsentimental modernity while allowing the play to pursue space-time-flouting twists. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Together, Wang and Lu have spurred an essential conversation about the fundamental importance of reconciling tradition and transformation in an ancient nation racing itself to modernity. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s all vaguely threatening, the failed modernity even somehow sinister. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The works he presented here were not purely traditional pieces, but scores that demonstrate the interplay of antiquity and modernity, and even the influence of Western music. Music Review | Music From Japan: Interplay of Antiquity With Some Modernity 2010-02-22T08:25:00Z This one wasn’t about gender fluidity, but rather a sort of timeline porousness between day and night, home and event, historicism and modernity. Gender, Lockdown and Really Good Outerwear 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z And as food supplies dwindle and Trywell’s neighbors succumb to buyouts and looters, the movie pulls inward, focusing its tug between tradition and modernity in Trywell’s resistance to his son’s fantastical-seeming plan. ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ Review: Saving a Village, Using Books and Brains 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z For some, Sarkozy's willingness to conduct his private life in public marked a welcome modernity; previous French presidents had generally cultivated a patrician gaze, a dispassionate air and an aura of superior detachment. Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z Metaxas’ effort to make Luther attractive to a wide readership presents its subject as a titanic figure who rescued God from medievalism, invented individual freedom and ushered in modernity. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z His modernity isn’t so much an innovative style or structure but a merging of subject and process that brought new liveliness to depictions of the body and to art itself. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z We adored our well-educated, English-speaking hosts Patrick and Joseph, and spent days discussing modernity versus tradition, especially women’s rights — unavoidable in this land of polygamy and dowries. The Legacy of a Falling Spider 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z To blaze some middle path between tradition and modernity for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics? Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z “Building skyscrapers is a capitalist logic, it’s an ideal of modernity for many people inside the country,” Ms. Bissenova said. In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z She also used the throbbing sustained tones known as binaural beats, hints of Buddhist chants and bell tones, while her video showed images from alchemy, Eastern religion and surreal modernity. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z If there’s one thing that Ford got from Maupassant, it’s sex; and so there’s a direct line from Maupassant to Ford to Welles’s first film, the linchpin of cinematic youth and modernity. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z There was so much immediacy and modernity to the shows. Playing by Johnny Marr’s rules: “I love living in the modern world, but I just don’t accept a laptop as being a band member” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The company hopes to capture the attention of a younger audience and show Shakespeare’s modernity. Shakespeare Gets Hip-Hop Treatment With App 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z So while Vogue might have been imagining its choice as reflecting the modernity of the times, it was also one that contravenes the momentousness of the occasion. Why a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The cinema’s self-conscious modernity arose when its makers put a virtual mirror into its lenses and revealed the filmmaking process in the films themselves. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z On the contrary, those Vikings, the Frisians before them and the Hanseatic merchants after them invented for themselves the conditions for modernity: international trade, money, credit, mathematics, law, the stock exchange, pensions and much else. Making waves 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z After years of “chatting,” I actually heard her voice: a weathered, pretty thing, seemingly encased in a bygone era, unmarred by modernity. Modern Love: Downloadable. Unsustainable, Too. 2011-08-11T18:57:16Z At times Bellows seemed to think that modernity was achieved by scaling up the oil study until the physicality of paint becomes an especially active part of the story. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z They brought the modernity of the wired world to a wardrobe essential. Special Report: Fashion: The Sporting Life 2011-06-20T11:43:45Z “The Europeans” is the much-anticipated follow-up to Figes’s acclaimed history of Russian culture, “Natasha’s Dance,” and like that book, it tells the story of a society in radical transition from tradition to modernity. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Remove that middling, piddling beat, one of the few concessions to modernity, from Black Market Red Roses and it could be a Gilbert O'Sullivan song. New band of the day – Luke White (No 1,336) 2012-08-22T15:23:00Z Newcomers to Beijing are often startled by the scale and modernity of the city, with its population — of over 20 million — that seems to stretch forever. A Modern History of China, in Photographs 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z He is a solitary, vulnerable presence contemplating a hard-edge world of power and modernity. Review | Phillips Collection is turning 100 and showing what future of classic museums can be 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Mullo Sandoval believes the founder’s vision simply “didn’t enter modernity” as Ecuador moved from its agricultural past to an industrial future. Found in Ecuador: A Time Capsule for the Ears 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The film, despite the bluster, knows the battle is lost; the forces of modernity are always too strong. Shock of the new: cinema's fascination with indigenous peoples 2012-06-27T08:57:10Z The triumph of secular materialism may be the conceit of modernity, but it does very little to unveil the essence of culture or to account for its diversity and complexity. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Seventeen new exhibitions run through the history of Scotland from the Reformation, the 18th century Enlightenment, Empire, modernity and the contemporary. Scotland's portrait gallery fulfils 120-yr-old dream 2011-11-29T16:39:58Z Like “Offside,” several international films consider the way soccer fandom pits modernity against traditional ways of life, simply through the struggles of people attempting to watch a game. These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But the Oscars will be a far greater rush of modernity for Muratova. Making Oscar history, ‘Honeyland’ shatters borders 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The only concession to modernity is wireless Internet. Refuge and Renewal on Lake George 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Everyone sees the world through his or her own eyes but the look in the mirror seeks the mystery of consciousness itself, and fixing it in self-portraiture has an exalted role in artistic modernity. Where Comedy Comes From 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z These were the lead characters of modernity: the political and the economic. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z It strips the music of rebellion and modernity and repackages it as static and safe. The Art of Classic Rock by Paul Grushkin 2010-05-14T23:29:00Z But as home to the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s unmanned space effort, it’s no stranger to modernity. Pasadena’s art, gardens and history make a good L.A. side trip 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “You imagine the Passion text as being of antiquity and in a sense not of modernity,” Mr. MacMillan said. A ‘Stabat Mater’ for the 21st Century, Colored by a Composer’s Faith 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z His poses combat the forced intimacy of modernity by making women as un-self-conscious as animals. Art Review: ?Degas and the Nude? at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-10-20T20:19:22Z Though Mr. Rolfe Johnson was most closely identified with early-music composers, including Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, his portfolio ranged through Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and on to modernity. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z After spending six years absorbing modernity in Paris, the young artist landed in New York in 1914, his crossing on the Lusitania financed by Helena Rubinstein, a client. A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z For Griffiths, however, kith is not merely an inevitable feature of human nature, but an ideal: one to be celebrated and reclaimed from the malign encroachments of modernity. Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-28T08:00:18Z “The old centuries had, and have, powers of their own,” writes one Sherlockian, “which mere modernity cannot kill.” Books of The Times: A Sherlock Holmes Tale That?s Hardly Elementary 2010-12-16T07:05:12Z In a statement Monday, Williams said he was looking forward to working with Givenchy “to move it into a new era, based on modernity and inclusivity,” Givenchy appoints American Matthew Williams as new designer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z “To unsettle so as to stimulate thought,” Laurens reflects, “to make art that was critical and served truth, though truth might be cruel, such were the aims of Edgar Degas, in his extreme modernity.” Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The score, by Cliff Martinez who also wrote the music for Drive, adds some modernity as well. The Knick: scalpel-sharp second season cuts away at Mad Men's status 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z But it’s defined less by ingredients and recipes than by regionalism, modernity and variety. Who’s in the Kitchen: A Quartet of Culinary Narratives 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The design brings a welcome jolt of modernity to a campus that has sometimes seemed afraid to stray from its neo-Gothic roots. Beneath the book bubble at U of C 2011-05-18T22:31:15Z The crises of modernity and tradition that the movie depicts are those of the filmmaker, his characters, the city, and the epoch overall. Movie of the Week: “Touki Bouki” 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Set in rural Albania, a local feud puts tradition and modernity into stark perspective for two endangered teens. This week's new films 2012-08-10T23:05:23Z It’s a reminder that the family farm will inevitably pass, just another screen that we’ve used to project our anxieties about modernity and progress. Little Farm on the Prairie 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The cinematic city walk is also an exemplary part of artistic modernity, as in the visual architectural dissonances of Michelangelo Antonioni’s great films, including “La Notte,” “The Eclipse,” and “Zabriskie Point.” Cinema’s Walking Cure 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z In modernity’s corner, Johann Hari looks at the ways information overload destroys our focus, and Sequoia Nagamatsu imagines a world coping with a viral pandemic by way of robotic pets and euthanasia amusement parks. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z A long skirt would slip off to reveal a peppy short dress, delicately decorated — just right for a modern bride who wants to combine tradition with modernity, which is the strength of Mr. Mabille. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z Relaxation and idleness are markers of sophistication in Ms. von Bonin’s book, and if her scallops and octopuses look a little bored at times, that should be seen as a sign of their modernity. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “I wanted to bring a piece of modernity to a sleepy Cuban town,” the architect laments. A Fortress to Faith — or Faith’s Undoing? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But a better explanation lies in his loathing of modernity, coupled with his passion for the tough, untamed, tradition-loving Nordland region north of the Polar Circle that was his native landscape. Carsten Jensen's top 10 seafaring tales 2010-04-14T11:04:00Z Except for a few trappings of modernity, they live largely without technology in a “prejudice-free workplace.” Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future Venetians have not been able to resolve a conflict that began in earnest just over 100 years ago, between modernity and the demands of the city’s principal source of revenue. Travails of a modern city 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z But these geometric clothes in pretty colors had a soft/hard modernity. Fashion Review: Stella McCartney 2011-10-03T18:27:47Z Each has been carved with the seriousness sculptors once reserved for gods, but in forms that reflect how modernity took gods down from their pedestals. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “That irreverence combined with craftsmanship and modernity is very important to the whole project.” At Tiffany, the Fifth Avenue Face-Lift Starts at Home 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z With danger and modernity, Wheatley adds another dimension that breaks away from the stereotype, potentially redefining the “bad guy” character in the future. Dylan McDermott reinvents modern gangster on ‘Law & Order’ 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z That's the currency of modernity: "Erasing our histories," Row puts it. 'Your Face in Mine' a bold take on race, identity by Jess Row 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z They use their style to underscore the modernity of their mission. Don’t Get Dressed Without Watching This Show 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z His mind turned toward the past again: “There was almost this excitement of arriving to a place of sophistication, of modernity, you know?” Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Invited to Japan just before the war, she initiated an industrial design program for a culture importing modernity. Charlotte Perriand, Stepping Out of Corbusier’s Shadow 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Yet for others, the Crystal Palace’s iron-and-glass construction and emphasis on visual display shows modernity’s preoccupation with surfaces. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The combination was surprisingly good, with the stark modernities of “Limen” set against the lush romanticism of “Marguerite” and the vaguely mystical rites of “Requiem.” Dance Review: In 'Marguerite,' Sparks Between a New Star and a Senior Ballerina 2011-10-17T11:43:13Z But its long history runs from the Stone Age and antiquity through to modernity, encompassing the birth of the restaurant, advances in chemistry and a famous pop art icon. ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z “There’s that tension: modernity and heritage,” he said. The New Tiffany, Unboxed 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Many return to a single topic: technology-driven modernity and how it frazzles the contemplative mind. Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The film’s only injection of music – a traditional Vietnamese ballad – pinpoints a turning point in Kit’s journey of self-discovery, juxtaposing the modernity of the capital’s high-rise structures with a bygone song of wartime Vietnam. Back to where you came from: how Vietnam drama Monsoon ignites the battle for belonging 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z "A Thousand and One Knives", as the title suggests, owes something to the Arabian Nights and the ancient fantastic tradition of Arabic writing, now revived by the pains of Arab modernity, particularly in post-invasion . The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z In the new “cinema of the author,” what mattered was “HOW it is said and by WHOM” — the style that conveys modernity. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z History and modernity duke it out in this week’s recommended titles. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Hals’s combination of life, light and brushwork ultimately made him one of the riverheads of modernity. Art Review: Faces Still Alive, Centuries Later 2011-07-28T22:44:45Z It explores the fusion of faith and fashion, modesty and modernity. Mediating Faith and Style: Museums Awake to Muslim Fashions 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z According to the two-degree narrative, once upon a time there was an order called modernity, and all was well. What zombie films tell us about climate change: there's no one happy ending 2013-03-22T16:37:53Z Thailand increasingly exists as a place of contradictions, where ancient animism coexists alongside hyper-capitalist modernity. The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Gauguin's paintings of the Pacific attempt to document a culture and its destruction: their melancholy modernity is eerily resonant with our time. Gaugin, Van Gogh and Doctor Who 2010-09-27T13:38:00Z Williams’s latest novel takes readers to a remote Irish town in the 1950s, a “forgotten elsewhere” whose ways are threatened by encroaching modernity. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z With Michel Foucault’s construction of “man” as a self-aware historical actor in mind, the problem of proving your identity is as old as modernity itself. Meet your online doppelgänger: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re not really trolling Ann Coulter 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z “It’s a raw Paris that shows history and modernity wrestling with each other.” T Magazine: Abstract Expression 2010-11-19T15:00:00Z “Mr. Fix-It,” which is set in Kinshasa, follows the story of a young Congolese man navigating the tensions between tradition and modernity in an evolving DRC. Congolese author couldn't get a visa, but he'll still take part in tonight's ALOUD program — via Skype 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The three inventions that defined modernity, he thought, were “photography, electricity, and aeronautics.” The Wild of Nadar, an Early Photographer Who Knew How to Give a Party 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The rococo romanticism of “Emeralds,” the simultaneous music-hall colloquialism and astringent modernity of “Rubies” and the grand imperial manner of “Diamonds” all show us the range of styles that Balanchine commanded. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z Yet it seemed frustrating that in the urge to codify brand Chanel, there was no hint of the visionary modernity of Coco’s early comet designs nor of the recent lion symbolism. The Year of the Snake in a Bejeweled Garden 2013-01-28T13:56:12Z It arrives in Boston in a significantly reshaped form, and with a refreshed exhibition design that puts Turner’s modernity in the spotlight. J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z A flapper-length dress in flesh tones found its modernity in gold hardware at each side that attached both front and back. Lanvin's study in monochromatic chic trumps Kanye, Kim in front row 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In six lectures given from his perch at the University of Chicago, Strauss laid out his argument about what he saw as modernity’s nihilistic rejection of classical philosophy. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The tribal Germanic idea of Heimat, or homeland, for instance, represented a bulwark against the ills of modernity before the Nazis notoriously used it as a pretext for ethnic cleansing. Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The style reflects modernity, incorporating features such as horizontal, low-sloping roofs that emulated flat Midwestern prairies. Tracing Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Yet Rishikesh itself provided a strange paradox in extremes: while it was a vacation from modernity for those like me, many locals often struggled for the bare necessities, let alone Wi-Fi access. Unplugging in the Unofficial Capital of Yoga 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z But “The New York Idea” was a modern play — focused in particular on modern, cosmopolitan notions of marriage and divorce in the early 20th century — and nothing turns old-fashioned faster than modernity. | 'The New York Idea': Love in City of Intemperate Mores 2011-01-27T03:01:13Z How to find the right balance between fidelity and ingenuity is exactly the problem the show dramatizes as Tevye is tugged by his daughters from his traditional way of life into modernity. Tradition! The Indestructible “Fiddler on the Roof” 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z They face the challenge of conveying modernity while maintaining the vintage Vegas feel. Why Won’t Anyone Buy the Most Famous Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z People, too, are completely absent in these paintings, and so is much of modernity. Maureen Gallace’s Restrained Palette of House, Sea, Sky 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It was film-makers, dramatists and satirists, however, who were leading the race towards modernity. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z The judges' statement said it was "an incredibly moving portrait of what it means to be a mother, but also of the tradition and modernity of the family in South Korea." South Korea's Shin wins Man Asian book prize 2012-03-15T16:31:04Z The effect is to show a particular sort of modernity with the ghosts and the echoes of the past not so very far from the surface. Iorram (Boat Song) review – swims with the ghosts of Scottish fishermen past 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Over the following decades, more communities, including the Amana Colonies in Iowa and the Oneida Colony in upstate New York, served as sanctuaries from materialism and modernity. The New Generation of Self-Created Utopias 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z In a century of war, famine and revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution sit as terrible indicators of what happens when a technocratic modernity is allied with a will to power. A new chapter in Chinese history 2011-07-15T15:53:27Z “It’s related to some kind of modernity,” Florent Mazzoleni, a French music producer and writer who has studied the era, has said. When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Sam and her mother have different emotions about tradition and modernity, and Sam and Tamira have grown apart as friends. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z It would be a laboratory of doing things differently, free from the pressures of the market as much as of modernity. Prince Charles is not a dabbler – he's deeply committed. But he's naive 2013-05-02T14:30:02Z The octopus — once depicted as an unnatural figure of centralization and greed — has become a metaphor for creative resistance to technology, modernity and capitalism? Put an octopus on it! 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z There is something liberating about the Westwood spirit, melding history and modernity as easily as the designer mixes prints and wraps blanket drapes artfully round the body. Special Report: Red Carpet Fading Away 2010-03-08T18:30:00Z Terrorism is a leitmotif of modernity, just as easy to find and with rationales just as fatuous in the year 1900 as it is now. Open Letter to a Friend in Paris 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z These are small works depicting everything from rumpled beds to soldiers' corpses and that icon of modernity, the bicycle. Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z Mary, already a widow and still in her teens, alights from France as an avatar of worldliness and modernity in a rugged, clannish country. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “The skyscraper is the dominant male that forces the city, or the woman, into submissiveness; or the skyscraper, which represents modernity, fertilizes the historic city center.” Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The Sophocles tale not only comes out of the Western canon but its notion of the headstrong individualist who probes and questions and tempts fate is convenient shorthand for the would-be tradition-killers of Western modernity. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The most impressive discoveries, though, are to be made in the decorative arts, particularly in what could be called “the antiques of modernity.” Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z Now and then, you read about people who have renounced modernity: Eccentrics who dress in Victorian clothes and live in houses where everything from the wallpaper to the lye soap dates from 1880. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z On “The Suburbs” the Arcade Fire ruminates on memory and modernity, and about childhoods spent, like the Butlers’, in featureless, interchangeable suburbs: their family lived near Houston. The Arcade Fire, a Thriving Throwback 2010-07-28T16:09:00Z What Bash outlines, and what Dahl details, is a musical career that, in its very historicity, went to the forefront of modernity. A Hidden Hero of Jazz 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z She likes companion visits to the two museums, which, she said, help to show how art entered modernity by breaking from the monarchy, the church and the academy and spilling into the cafes of Paris. The Art of Drinking? Right This Way, S’il Vous Plaît. 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z She is a genuine, sharp chronicler of our times with a remarkable ability to sway from keen modernity to complete Gothic. Gillian Flynn: By the Book 2014-05-08T16:21:40Z There's a mesmerising sense of ritual throughout, though Wake-Walker doesn't lose sight of modernity. The Prodigal Son/The Burning Fiery Furnace – review 2013-07-07T17:20:00Z Here they are raised on nearly chest-high pedestals, diminishing the effect, but the distortions are noteworthy nevertheless because they are signs of the artists’ postmedieval modernity. Review: Donatello in a Valedictory Show at the Museum of Biblical Art 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The phrase "white horses" is widespread, not "local parlance," and likewise the common word "fortnightly" is hardly a sign of being on the "fringe of modernity"! And editors: "too course"?? The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z From crisis we move to modernity—a finale of 16 recent ensembles. ‘The Fabric of India’ Review: A Nation’s Interwoven History 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z They're abandoning this elegant ruin in favour of the bustling modernity of Toronto, the next event on the circuit. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z And sometimes the show uses modernity for simple plot convenience, such as having Diane use her cellphone to enter coordinates that point her to Twin Peaks. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 12: Hornes Aplenty 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z And it was to the designer’s credit that with this graceful theme, there was a feeling of modernity and ease. Fashion Review: Valli: ‘Girly, Young and Fun’ 2014-01-21T14:52:14Z We are at the end of modernity and at the beginning of something new. Herzog & de Meuron: and now for our next trick … 2012-05-23T18:30:01Z The Paris Opera dancers are better at classicism than modernity; they dance “Apollo” with the same smooth, correctly placed elegance that they bring to “Swan Lake.” Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z This was one of Mr. Lagerfeld’s finest collections, a homage to haute couture and to Chanel’s ateliers, while also an expression of modernity. Fashion Review: At Chanel, Look at the Shoes! 2014-01-21T15:22:29Z In the vast light-flooded “palace,” the consumer goods of modernity were bestowed with new meaning. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z It presages one of the staples of postwar modernity — the monochrome, or one-color painting — and arrived in New York just as several painters were getting their Abstract Expressionist chops in order. ‘The Red Studio,’ Matisse’s Masterpiece, Gets a Life All Its Own 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z He confirms that modernity is less a style than a condition that can appear at any time. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z As the world’s oldest photographic archive, Girault’s travel pictures offer a tantalizingly familiar mapping of the world through images, and their modernity pierces sharpest when they picture places razed or renovated in the intervening decades. An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Manet had always been an adept of women’s fashion, and “Manet and Modern Beauty” looks carefully at how clothing and accessories work to signal modernity in the artist’s late work. Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “It’s about fathers and sons, classicism and modernity, the clash of these forces,” Thorne said. What Makes a Great Performance? Backstage Drama, That’s What. 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “Rubies,” to Stravinsky, is quintessentially New York — its speed, density and jazzy modernity characterize this city rather than this nation. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z More recent vintages, however, have conceded to modernity, with alcohol levels approaching or exceeding 15 percent, even as many have argued that Napa should return to Mondavi’s original, more restrained style. Fifty years ago, Robert Mondavi transformed Napa Valley — and American wine 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Stark harmonies in particular are made gut-wrenching in their surprising modernity without their swank instrumental colors. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Its modernity and brutality may not be to everyone’s taste, but if you like the clean lines and style of Nordic design, you just might love it. Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD With stale modernity smeared over everything like ketchup. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Bauman's analysis of the links between modernity, Nazism and postmodern communism earned him international acclaim. Sociologists Bauman, Touraine win Spanish award 2010-05-27T16:31:00Z He also synthesized forms from the deeper past — the imposing split skirt of the 18th-century robe à la française, several kinds of bustles, army greatcoats — but his best garments exude an undeniable modernity. Art Review: ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion,’ a Retrospective at the Met 2014-05-08T13:04:04Z Rather, it’s seen as a bastion of sanitized, chewing-gum-free efficiency, admired for its modernity and order in otherwise chaotic Southeast Asia. Cultured Traveler: Expanding the Cultural Realm in Singapore 2011-06-10T18:55:00Z In this context and after a weekend showing the constant interplay of tradition and innovation in Stravinsky’s work, “Mavra” was the ideal conclusion, savvily poised between nostalgia and modernity. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z “It’s a French twist we destroyed a tiny bit, because we want a modernity,” said Odile Gilbert of the hair — a chignon and slight bangs flattened to one side using Kérastase Double Force hairspray. | Thakoon 2012-02-13T16:00:38Z Instead there’s the “rush” of modernity, and we drove away from it as if from any airport, not one that clings to the bright border of the Mediterranean. Back to Provence 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z Even the mud looks like preindustrial, frontier mud, and the motley, multicultural assortment of traders, trappers and prospectors who find themselves spattered by it seem equally untouched by modernity. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z But in this implacable palais this kind of modernity was kept firmly at bay, just as the great oak doors on to the Ring were closed to the anti-semitic brawling from the university opposite. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z In the postwar years it became a sure sign of modernity and freshness. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z They were trying to find a style to match their sense of modernity. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But while Mr. Morente kept one foot loyally planted in a centuries-old art, with the other he strode briskly into modernity. Enrique Morente, Celebrated Flamenco Singer, Dies at 67 2010-12-15T05:11:10Z With Bories serving as the narrator and interviewer, and Chagnard handling the cinematography, the directors introduce a world that looks almost untouched by modernity, despite technologies like cellphones and portable milking machines. ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z That means more or less everything in man-made modernity, every city and almost every building, and New York serves as the master synecdoche for the relentless, eruptive destruction of the world. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Streaks of modernity — like the leather jumpsuits — linked the classic Hermès to present and future. Special Report: Fashion: Hats Off to Easy Elegance 2011-01-24T18:21:28Z Following the show, as a crush of photographers and television cameras encircled Simons, designer Elbaz summed up the collection succinctly: "Voila modernity." Raf Simons makes dazzling Dior debut with floral bounty 2012-07-02T20:03:31Z Many scholars now prefer to see Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany and Franz Joseph’s Austria as ambiguous laboratories of modernity, where reactionary impulses collided with progressive ones. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Whereas the lances used by the cavalry during the Battle of Mons hark back to 19th century warfare, their 13-pounder field guns embraced modernity, being lighter, more mobile and quicker to fire than earlier artillery. Eager but doomed: the British Tommies who hoped to be home by Christmas 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Thomas Salvador’s “The Mountain” is a lightweight parable about a man who abandons modernity to connect with the earth. ‘The Mountain’ Review: Stone-Faced in Nature’s Splendors 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z In his writing, teaching and frequent public lectures on interfaith understanding, he invoked Old Testament Scripture to underscore the commonalities not only between Christianity and Judaism but also between antiquity and modernity. Lawrence Boadt, Priest, Publisher and Bible Scholar, Dies at 67 2010-07-30T20:47:00Z On some level, its music wagers, all of us feel that society is stupefying, and modernity is terrifying. How Arcade Fire Found a Way Back 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The artists here impress you as talented loners working toward diverse and much messier notions of modernity. Art Review: ‘American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe’ at Whitney Museum 2012-12-27T22:56:49Z They were starting over in America, with houses quite different from the monumental villas with which Bauhaus designers had established architectural modernity in the Weimar era. Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The genius of the series is it’s ability to inject the dusty myths with modern empathy, ditching stiff ancient language for delightful modernity. Podcast ‘Live from Mount Olympus’ readies for new adventure 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z If this “handheld digital art” often gazes backward at what used to be seen as modernity, so does much contemporary architecture. In the galleries: In ‘Everyware,’ new-technology photo pieces exhibit nostalgia Another overriding theme was the loss of village life from modernity and the changing world. Readers recommend: songs about villages – results 2013-05-16T14:18:14Z Luxury is impressive, vulgarity is alluring, and the mighty and gleaming architectural and urbanistic modernity that runs on massive infusions of corporate money and government collusion—well, it can also be spectacularly beautiful. Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” Challenges Hollywood to Do Better 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Considering the geography the sculpture refers to, you might read King Kong as a metaphor for terrorism and the rage against modernity felt by violent jihadists. High-End Works Toying With Politically Loaded Signifiers 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Balanchine was the 20th century’s most important heir to that tradition, and the agent of its mutation into a new modernity. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z “Then the idea of modernity changed,” he said. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “The modernity of his thought is what is most interesting to me,” Ms. Ponticelli explained. In Tuscany, Following the Rise and Fall of Machiavelli 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z We leave with this startling image of our deforming modernity, and blink our way into the light. Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: the real art underground 2011-03-17T23:00:01Z What he finds is that the party most opposed to liberal modernity has, in fact, ended up dominating its governments. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “It’s a very ’60s mood, made for today, with a lot of mixing material in a weird way,” the designer said to explain the modernity of his work. Paris Fash File 2014-03-02T20:06:52Z Yet the fresh modernity and artistic seriousness with which these choreographers address gender, steps, time, music, structure and stage geometries matter more. Review: New York City Ballet Gives a Dance Form a Makeover 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Nightingale’s handsome facade — an early-twentieth-century anachronism in the sea of modernity that characterizes much of the area — seemed a bit formidable. From Italian-Asian to Locavore Canadian: Food Adventures in Vancouver 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Other songs focus on the country’s leap into modernity: one is a jingle commissioned by the new national airline, Air Volta. When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In fact, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life,” Nietzsche neatly sums up Taseer’s evolving relationship to the Brahmins—and to modernity itself. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The veteran character actor Ray Wise is on hand as the resident curmudgeon raging against modernity, the effect reminiscent less of Andy Rooney than of a demented codger shouting on the subway. | Mather Zickel: Mather Zickel ‘Reports’ the News for Adult Swim 2013-01-17T15:40:14Z When “Heaven’s Gate” was restored and revived, in 2012, I wrote about the experience of watching it again, about its original cinematic modernity, and about its rejection by critics at the time of its release. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Pinki's story is emblematic of problems confronting India's young, in a society impatient for progress and yet underprepared for the challenges that inevitably accompany modernity. In modernizing India, suicide is on the rise among young 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z They fling themselves to the ground in ecstasy and raise goblet after goblet of wine, the modernity of their music and dance collapsing the divide between ancient and modern bacchanals. Latitude theatre review: marquees and mash-ups 2013-07-22T16:41:20Z Opened last year, it demonstrates how this traditional brewing town is beginning to tangle with modernity. Bamberg, Germany: A city of just 70,000 people but nine breweries 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Realising that some of his sitters, and friends such as Claude Monet, lived on into the 1920s and 30s collapses distance – but Manet's recentness and his modernity are different things. Manet: Portraying Life – review 2013-01-21T18:45:01Z His physical cleanliness is less conspicuous than that of his office, with its hard and shiny modernity, an anti-decorative manifestation of boundless power. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z One of the first things he does upon arriving in Paris is buy himself a suit of lettuce-green silk to advertise his “modernity.” Books of The Times: ‘Pure,’ a New Novel by Andrew Miller 2012-07-03T21:48:27Z Biography is another area where the new interest in the path to Chinese modernity is evident. A new chapter in Chinese history 2011-07-15T15:53:27Z The setup could be described as “Casanova meets Dracula”—or, skeptical, empirical modernity, the cult of calculated, maximized pleasure meets the cult of pain and mystique, of the irrepressible and inextirpable atavistic and pre-rational forces. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But even though both books describe a party out of control, they still sit within that wider narrative of the construction of Chinese modernity. A new chapter in Chinese history 2011-07-15T15:53:27Z But American conservatism has always been bifurcated about modernity. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z "I was trying to show the modernity of Africa, connected to an urban environment," she said backstage. A mix of leather, mesh, and African prints at Edun 2012-02-13T00:09:14Z It was the time of the autobahn and mass production of the Volkswagen, images of modernity that fitted in well with the looks and graphics of art deco. 10 of the best European cities for art deco design 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z More than anyone else, Napoleon exemplified the key principle of modernity and social change, “the career open to talent.” ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The Design Museum’s director, Deyan Sudjic, was offered other sites but passed in favor of the Commonwealth, he said, “to make our project the first major renovation of postwar modernity in the city.” Millions of Square Feet, Billions of Dollars: An Arts Universe Expands 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Classic to precise modernity is a smart vision for a designer who is as careful in the cut of a slim suit as of the sportier zipper jackets that dominated the show. From Jil Sander to Burberry, there were men?s wear risks in Milan 2012-01-15T19:51:37Z You just said something that I missed — was it that modernity is bringing in the whole-feeling male? Matthew Rhys and the All-Feeling Male 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Conrad had a very naive idea that colonisation was bringing modernity, Christianity and commerce to this barbarous people. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z There is a world of massive uncertainty, a chaotic non-linear range of climate change impacts which the people realise is beyond the scope of modernity to even understand, let alone respond to. What zombie films tell us about climate change: there's no one happy ending 2013-03-22T16:37:53Z The perfect symbol for liberal modernity is a prison, as governed by a panopticon, an instrument of universal surveillance. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z In its new stricter, leaner guise with a striking tilt to modernity, it is the most unconventional gathering of treasures seen in a long time. A Gathering of Treasures 2010-09-17T18:00:00Z As important, however, is that the isolation of the site will keep its vision of modernity from close contact with Riyadh’s strictly monitored society, at least too soon. Critic?s Notebook: Laying Out Economic Cities, Saudis See Window to Modernity 2010-12-13T03:28:00Z But hearing this repertory sung by a consummate opera performer helped illuminate a musical moment suspended between nostalgia and modernity. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Dials Up the Swoon Factor 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z As his characters grapple with violence, isolation and modernity in far-flung corners of the country, the lines of reality can blur, often through magical and otherworldly explanations drawn from folklore, witchcraft and religion. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z I wanted to convey a sense of the visual history of Judaism with the book by demonstrating all the aesthetic tropes that the culture has adopted through the ages, from antiquity to modernity. Not the Harvey Pekar graphic novel you’d expect 2012-07-13T13:39:00Z He represents the beauty and complexity of classical cinema and at the same time represents a kind of modernity, an openness. Bonjour Tristesse: a golden-age masterpiece ripe for rediscovery 2012-10-10T11:42:04Z Hurtling toward modernity, how will India package itself to the world? Indian Accent: New Approaches 2011-06-09T14:15:00Z Kamekura’s poster didn’t just spurn western expectations of the “exotic” Orient for hard, clean modernity. The 1964 Olympics Certified a New Japan, in Steel and on the Screen 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Is time still marching forward, bringing an unavoidable tide of modernity that threatens the old way of life at Downton? Everything You Need to Know to Watch Downton Abbey's New Season 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In addition, “You see the clash of modernity and tradition in this film,” she said. Asghar Farhadi?s ?Separation? to Open Dec. 30 2011-12-21T13:00:00Z In a world where gadgets and software packages are constantly being reinvented, earlier phases of modernity are relegated to a sentimental past. Jim'll Paint It 2013-03-06T13:45:56Z He makes it sound like a moment of pure revolutionary madness, an electrifying revelation from the eye of modernity's storm. Tino Sehgal has created a you-had-to-be-there moment at Tate Modern 2012-07-24T12:56:01Z He seems altogether too cheerful to have spent nine solitary years mounting a pagan assault upon the skeptical ramparts of modernity. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator – the nation’s most important anti-slavery and anti-death penalty magazine — was dedicated to the uncompromising and revolutionary promises of the Enlightenment, modernity and democracy. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z On top of that, I am struck by how in Japan modernity mingles seamlessly with history. Giorgio Armani: 'Japan always keeps its soul' 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Varvatos’s is one of many fashion brands that eschews slick modernity. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z It was modernity’s fault, capitalism’s fault, Charles Dickens’s fault. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Oliver offered a seriousness not tied to a religious orthodoxy, a way to find the numinous through poetry and the outdoors, to avoid dwelling on crowds, modernity, the economy, and their loud demands. Mary Oliver’s Deep, Direct Love for the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The result of Monday’s presentation was not a triumph, but it was a selection of ideas by a designer who has a rare aptitude: to meld modernity with romance. Dior Says It With Flowers 2012-07-02T17:48:48Z And: how to maintain an edge of modernity so as not to turn the look into a suit. Fashion Review: Alexander Wang, Rag & Bone, Altuzarra, Suno, Prabal Gurung: Fashion Week Reviews 2012-09-09T22:36:17Z “Your Name” features exquisite detailed images of old Japanese customs in Mitsuha’s hometown and the bustling modernity of Tokyo. The Anime Master of Missed Connections Makes Strong Contact in Japan 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z As Ms. Smith points out, this is exactly what lends the work its “uncanny modernity” today. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Which was essentially deciding to be modern, to undergo this process of modernity, which in many ways it had missed out on — and it was going to do that by importing it. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Nor, in fact, was the extraordinary modernity of Liszt's music, which, harmonically, often seems years ahead of its time. Betrand Chamayou ? review 2011-01-04T23:30:00Z The task, Attia writes, is tending “all of the wounds accumulated throughout the history of Western modernity.” Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z It's not the modernity of gleaming towers or digital billboards or starchitect-designed galleries. Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri – review 2013-04-06T06:01:32Z Can one deny modernity while living in it? ‘We Don’t Care About Music Anyway ...’: Tokyo’s noise-art scene 2013-02-07T22:25:04Z On the other hand, the marriage of the Flash and the Indian Princess — personifications of high-velocity modernity and organic tradition — holds out the possibility of a world-saving eco-spiritual equilibrium. Jim Shaw: ‘I Only Wanted You to Love Me’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The net effect of the exhibition is a lesson in bringing the past to the present, because the Balenciaga designs, distilled from historic costumes, are striking in their modernity. Are Les Docks the Next Cool Thing? 2012-06-04T11:30:24Z On one side is an intelligent meld of fabrics and styles, as collections blend formal and casual with purposeful modernity. Special Report: Bottega's Fashion Fusion 2010-06-20T16:23:00Z Sun Young Youn , trained at Seoul Women’s University, was inspired by modern architecture and she used lace in an imaginative way, bonding it with vinyl to create a tough modernity. Special Report: Fashion: Victoria Beckham, Alexander Wang and Lacoste bring color and a sense of digital exploration to New York Fashion Week 2011-09-11T17:37:04Z The other peoples of the world are not failed attempts at modernity, let alone failed attempts to be us. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z But it is somewhere between modernity and tradition. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z Mr. Zorn’s work is inspired by Baudelaire and captures some of the ephemeral beauty set against the frenetic backdrop of urban modernity that marks the work of that poet. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It is only when Eagleton wields his own positive criteria that things go awry: they seem to spring, unargued-for, from the same Romantic-influenced, individualist modernity about which he is elsewhere so sardonic. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z This needn't mean music from 2011: the concept of modernity is, of course, nothing new. Readers recommend: songs about modernity 2011-01-07T00:01:02Z Richman's eye falls not on the more obvious charms of the state, but on its emblems of modernity: the industrial park, the Prudential tower, Interstate 90. How my article inspired Massachusetts to make Roadrunner its state anthem 2013-02-24T14:00:01Z The cultural and political center of Taiwan, it flaunts its modernity in high-tech company headquarters, an ultraefficient public transportation system and bustling retail centers. 36 Hours in Taipei, Taiwan 2013-04-11T16:30:22Z For Hobsbawm, this “dual revolution” announced two different orientations to modernity. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Its forthright cheerfulness comes as a challenge to those of us still hung up on the brawnier, more shocking image of modernity Manet forged two decades earlier with “Déjeuner” and “Olympia.” Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But the group was also firmly committed to modernity, signaled by the choice of Berg, perhaps Vienna’s greatest 20th-century composer, as its namesake. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z It is a new take on the familiar, incorporating a vogue for streamlined modernity and geometric lines. Queen’s Favorite Scarf Prints on the Runway 2012-05-28T18:54:07Z It is a last-ditch effort to save a city built as a monument to modernity and hope but now threatened by neglect and the fierce demands of the global art market. Le Corbusier's Indian masterpiece Chandigarh is stripped for parts 2011-03-07T19:28:49Z It’s a story about the natural world, the tragedy and chaos of modernity, and the survival of the heart. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z “I find that period between 1947 and 1957 extremely attractive, and there was a lot of modernity,” Mr. Simons said of Christian Dior’s designs. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z The reproductive nature of his output is one factor, but so is its lack of modernity. A Centenary and Recent Discoveries Shine a Spotlight on Rodin 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z This imposition of liberal modernity and urban life incorporated a demand for social transformation, an urgent call for restructuring the economy and a conviction that the South’s deepest beliefs must be jettisoned. 2010-02-12T23:24:00Z Writers who knew this way of life at first hand had found their moment: they wrote about the conflict between individualism and community, self-fulfilment and conformity, modernity and tradition, ambition and betrayal. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z Mr. Lang’s use of technology as a symbol of modernity does have an operatic precedent. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z Removed from the clamor of the canals, his makeover of the Palazzo Grassi unites art and architecture, history and modernity, in a single spectacular space. | A Magic Carpet Ride in a Venetian Palazzo 2013-06-05T17:47:17Z It's a dream of false dawns and fast-fading modernity that asks: is what rises better than what falls? Before I Sleep 2010-05-07T20:35:00Z According to Libération's Bruno Icher, "here is an exhilarating road-movie through a country in crisis, a broken land split between a phony modernity and musty traditions." France's 'lost generation' of jobless youth finds film portrait in Juliette 2013-07-20T23:06:06Z Strauss, the subject of Ross's first chapter, links the chromatic opulence of late Romanticism with the fractured soundworlds of modernity; and Zarathustra, pivoting between two keys a semitone apart, presages a century of harmonic reinvention. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z It is the point at which tradition and modernity are no longer in violent conflict. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z Eliot's "The Waste Land," of the supposed rot of modernity and social change and the need to restore the nation's supposedly previous state of glory. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z His own first professional designs at Leatherhead, in 1957, were notably stark and ruffled the repertory theatre, which was unaccustomed to such modernity. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z Their only chance for survival is if Diane can undo what modernity has done to them in turning their rightful maenad madness into mere home-improvement mania. Review: In ‘Hurricane Diane,’ the Perfect Storm Hits Suburbia 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Zughaib is in the contrast business, juxtaposing Arab tradition and American modernity. In the galleries: Art history slapstick 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The game’s strengths are its narrative, the character writing and the mundane modernity of its real-world setting. Video Game Reviews: Reviews: Thomas Was Alone, NCAA Football 13, The Secret World, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Fieldrunners 2, Dyad 2012-08-07T16:20:18Z As Ms Hirsi Ali acknowledges, the link between the evolution of the Protestant Reformation and modernity is not simple. Thoughts on its future 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z His friends and associates report that he disliked modern pop culture, and, to a great extent, modernity itself. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z It traces 3,000 years of perfume history, from ancient Greece through modernity, with artifacts, videos, olfactory installations and explanatory panels. A Perfume Devotee in the Land of French Fragrance 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z But at root this is now a cultural war – between modernity and the past, between tolerance and brutality, between unity and division. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z “You can’t just say: ‘OK, now I’m going to give you back what modernity took away.’ Constant cravings: is addiction on the rise? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The Boys-Will-Be-Boys Guy died Tuesday after a long battle with modernity. The end of the ‘Boys-Will-Be-Boys Guy’? 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z In some ways China resembles Italy just after the turn of the last century or Russia in the 1920s — countries whose faith in modernity was driven, in part, by insecurities over their own relative backwardness. Architecture Review: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting 2011-07-05T21:43:47Z This seemed so much in the spirit of the way that clothes are worn in cities across the world that Kenzo is fast becoming a mirror for modernity in men’s wear. Fashion Review: At Kenzo, a Techno Take on Sportswear 2014-01-19T12:57:56Z Just ask Joshua Ferris, the National Book Award finalist whose last novel, “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” portrays a character disconnected, adrift in the isolating stillness of modernity. Author Joshua Ferris learns to fly 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, the rigorously symmetrical composition is all cylinders, circles and squares, Cezanne’s modernity mixed with New World antiquity. Diego Rivera's Cubist masterpiece arrives at LACMA 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Rereading it this month, though, I was dazzled by its preternatural modernity. Perspective | Two centuries after her birth, Emily Brontë’s gifts keep giving 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Dance in America today abounds in examples of inventive, ebullient African-American dance idioms — Memphis jookin and Detroit Jit are just two — but you won’t find the best aspects of this modernity in the Ailey repertory. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s as if a vestige of Old Hollywood—the classical movie trope of characters as types—was resurging, uneasily and perhaps unawares, in a movie of a notable modernity. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Set in the revolutionary 1840s, with an air of lovingly detailed civil decay that also had a feel of modernity, it concentrated on the opera's key issue. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z The performances of the seven symphonies stood out for their revelatory freshness, clarity and modernity — with still a hint of hands-off wariness. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps I was hoping to taste history instead of modernity. An international wine is fine, but I’d rather taste the place in Virginia 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Kynaston, in this shrewd, funny and ever-readable book, depicts Britain in 1957-59 as a country chafing at traditional puritanical paternalism, and both gullible and indiscriminate as it edged towards tacky, often destructive forms of modernity. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Venice and Prague have held on to the delicate Old World beauty that Paris, as obsessed with modernity as with self-preservation, has let slip. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z Yet it is hard to believe that the unique Simons mix of streamlined modernity and traditional tailoring will be left long to languish. Special Report: Fashion: Hats Off to Easy Elegance 2011-01-24T18:21:28Z But, as in music, so in fashion: modernity is in the mix. Style: At Versailles, Rock 'N' Rococo 2011-07-11T13:01:16Z That is another path to modernity, grounded in what his dear friend Baudelaire, in “The Painting of Modern Life,” called “beauty, fashion and happiness.” Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Do you feel we have regressed from that modernity in contemporary London? Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z Pamuk’s usual themes are on display: the East-West dialectic, the tensions between modernity and tradition, the relationship between secular and sacred, with Istanbul as both a backdrop and muse. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Read the results of last week's column on songs about modernity. Readers recommend: songs about austerity 2011-01-14T00:01:02Z How unexpected: Most unexpected was the modernity — and the persistence of tradition. A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to his old haunts decades later 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And that is because the first step in the march toward digital modernity was the invention of the camera. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z Perhaps they are dispensable to the story of British art's struggle with modernity. Modern British Sculpture: empire of the oddballs 2011-01-18T21:31:01Z A tragic site in both history and modernity for Australians, Port Arthur was a brutal penal colony from 1833 to 1877. Tasmania’s Three Capes trail is spectacular, but it’s not cheap 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “We felt Hannah’s voice was an excellent addition to an expanded conversation about Picasso’s legacy,” Morris said, “and the emergence of feminist revisionism and critique of modernity.” Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Belton gives as much time to less dramatic encounters with modernity, like court clashes over whether Amish parents can be compelled, against their beliefs, to send their children to high school. | 'The Amish': ?The Amish,? an ?American Experience? Film on PBS 2012-02-27T23:17:02Z “But you have to remember the guy’s genius. People talk about the architecture of his clothes, but it’s also the way he thought about modernity.” Scene City: Inside the Met Ball And After Parties 2014-05-07T17:53:58Z They were saying: This is modernity, this is the stuff that makes your life possible. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Levine asked his contributors to explore the idea of "secular enchantment", a phrase that plays on sociologist Max Weber's assertion that modernity was characterised by Entzauberung, or disenchantment. The Joy of Secularism edited by George Levine – review 2013-03-15T17:17:01Z It spans Asia's steady disillusionment with western modernity through two world wars, then ends with the rise of China, India and global Islam, and the much-rumoured decline of the west. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z As the dark ages passed and civilization began to ramp up into modernity, beer was the purview of women and monasteries. Here’s a timeline that explains how beer went from brilliant mistake to hipsterific 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Yet by other measures, Sumba is exceedingly rich, and to explore its villages is to witness a culture untouched by modernity. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z Because in modernity women are less successful economically and are still in charge, culturally, of the children. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z Looney’s interest in Shakespeare was more political than literary: he despised modernity and was profoundly anti-democratic. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Nakashima’s movie, however, it partakes in the critique of soulless modernity that is implicit in so many Japanese films. Film: Samplings From the Asian Film Festival 2010-06-24T21:39:00Z Along with digital streaming of the Juilliard String Quartet’s recordings on Apple Music, the app is a step into modernity for the 71-year-old ensemble, which balances rigorous traditions with inevitable change. Juilliard String Quartet balances tradition with change 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z What made this doubly shocking to its audience was the modernity of its language. The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places' 2013-04-03T17:30:01Z Most of all, the cooking is a thrill, largely because it sails right over ideas like tradition, authenticity and modernity. Restaurant Review: Cosme in the Flatiron District 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In modernity, self-worth is actually not clear at all. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z “But I hope in front of the camera there’s a modernity to it.” In ‘The English,’ Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer Saddle Up 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z At heart a dotty look at oldsters struggling to adapt to an unwelcoming modernity, “Shadows” has the bones of an anarchic sitcom. Review: ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ a Vampire Comedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z As it does everywhere in the world, modernity rolls on, fiercely. Art Review: Naga Peoples Made Beauty From the Ugly in Northeastern India 2013-06-27T21:18:57Z You begin to wonder whether short-term memory is somehow a casualty of modernity. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z But there’s a fertility of invention and a modernity of spirit here that are all Mr. McIntyre’s own. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z His adviser mocks the vagueness of his area of expertise by parodying him, declaring in a little girl’s voice: “I’m a specialist in modernity. I study the ways in which modernity affects the Russian mind.” Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Through her main character, a wealthy socialite, Shafak, one of Turkey’s most acclaimed authors, explores the many tensions that exist in a society struggling toward modernity. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The inn emphasizes its modernity: self check-in, private bathrooms and, instead of serving breakfast on-site, the inn provides breakfast vouchers for partnering Massachusetts Avenue restaurants. 36 Hours in Indianapolis 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z That interview-slash-sermon-slash-rant, in which Louis C. K. lamented that modernity was being wasted on “spoiled idiots,” became an Internet sensation. The Comic Louis C. K. Has a New Show on FX 2010-06-18T16:28:00Z This was 21st-century fashion for a woman, by a woman, with all the confident modernity and emotional understanding that implies. Special Report: Celine's Chic Severity 2010-03-07T18:39:00Z The characters, the dialogue, the sets and costumes and music are all firmly in mid-90s, low-budget erotic thriller territory, and there’s barely a concession to modernity to be found anywhere. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z There is therefore nothing “timeless” about these artworks, and indeed of all the virtues of indigenous Australian painting, the most important is its proof that modernity and tradition are not at odds. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z But the crucial consequence of the production's modernity is that it puts Iago at the heart of the play. Othello – review 2013-04-23T21:30:01Z On the other, it gets at not just the condition of modernity but humanity itself. Dominique Fabre and the literature of nothing (and everything) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “The Marseillaise is lost in modernity,” he said. The Twists and Turns of ‘La Marseillaise’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z And further back: Mary Shelley, whose “Frankenstein” marks a kind of Year Zero for industrialized modernity’s impact on literature. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The extreme pastiche of tradition and modernity, East and West, reflected a new, global reality in which physical location, even the laws of physics and gravity, were irrelevant. The recession and its discontents in films by Cao Fei at the Mistake Room 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The muscular tension and fraught distortion of the figures in Stag at Sharkey's gives them an unexpected modernity. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z North Korea, like Cuba, is a country suspended in time, one that exists off modernity’s grid. Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z He is condemned, he muses, to live life as a perpetual drifter, never at home anywhere, the perfect chronicler of a vagabond modernity. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z It was here that Alf’s music began to flourish, and his sound developed a striking modernity. A Black Pianist Helped Birth Bossa Nova. His Story Is Rarely Told. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z On one level, its music suggests a handwritten love letter to the folk traditions of Appalachia, offered without irony or concessions to modernity. Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z They stress the mere eye blink that is our lives within the mere eye blink that is modernity. Photographs of Wendover Air Base and Chernobyl 2012-03-10T05:03:24Z The image of all those attics stuffed with mad wives, strange sons and idiot siblings waiting for modernity to shine its cleansing light on festering family shame will no longer do. Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-12T10:31:01Z They pose with totems of modernity—sunglasses and cameras and vinyl records and motorbikes—and against painted backdrops of modernity—a large town and an airplane. When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Featuring a bladelike quintet with Mr. Mahanthappa on alto saxophone and the impressive young Adam O’Farrill on trumpet, it’s a whirligig of brisk dynamism and bustling modernity. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z This video of them performing the beautiful “I See You” shows the success of the approach: their sound has the directness and immediacy of traditional music and the modernity of pop. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z So to make that man real, I had to strip away a lot of modernity from him, strip away a lot of articulation from the guy. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z It was a total time warp with no obvious signs of modernity — video tapes, crocheted table settings, wood paneled walls, quilts. How We Saw the Arts This Year 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z He was followed by Frank Sinatra and another Rat Pack wave after World War II, transforming Palm Springs into a “mecca for midcentury modernity,” said Charles Phoenix, author of “Addicted to Americana.” America’s Art Scenes Off the Beaten Track 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z |
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