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American art

Modernist Muscle

This spring New York audiences were indulged with two provocatively revealing exhibitions. Visitors to David Zwirner's Nineteenth Street gallery and the Museum of Modern Art could explore a…

Brancusi and America

The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…

The Breuer Effect

In 1966, A.i.A. devoted four articles in its September-October issue to the then-new Whitney Museum designed by Marcel Breuer. Architectural historian Timothy M. Rohan discusses the views of our…

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