Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by Velma Kimbell, the founder’s widow, in 1964). Those groups no doubt respond to the...
It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of course, not only of war and revolution, but also of practically everything else that lays claim to b...
[Studying a Miró painting] Raymond Deagan: So, what's your opinion on modern art? Cathy Whitaker: It's hard to put into words, really. I just know what I care for and what I don't. Like this... I don't know how to pronounce it... Mira? Raymond Deaga...
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
I don't listen to much modern composition.
We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.
The Bretton Woods saga unfurled at a unique crossroads in modern history. An ascendant anticolonial superpower, the United States, used its economic leverage over an insolvent allied imperial power, Great Britain, to set the terms by which the latter...
Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp. ... Like John Donne, man lies in a close prison, yet it is dear to him. Like Donne's, his thoughts at times overleap the sun and pace beyond the body. If I term humanity a slime mold organi...
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.
I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
I would loathe to work on modern films.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Most modern comedy is crap.
