This Article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine here. The story of architectural Modernism in New York City goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

From a legendary poolside photograph to decades of cultural influence, Nelda Linsk helped define the modern identity of Palm Springs.

The streamlined forms, the emphasis on planes and lines, the form-follows-function mentality: all tenets of architectural modernism. At the same time, though, it’s not so easy to define what is ...

When Richard Neutra's Maslon house was demolished in 2002, it sparked an outcry and inspired a preservation movement. A new film takes audiences back inside the vanished modernist masterpiece. By ...

Much of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and ...

The first four issues of Verve magazine, published in 1937 (images via eBay) This isn’t to say that excellent art is impossible to come by in the pages of today’s journals, just that its role in ...