Saarinen embraced historical precedent and sensuous effect, the taboos of modernism, as eagerly as he adopted new technology.

WSJ: Eero Saarinen, Shaping the Future, at the Museum of the City of New York | By Ada Louise Huxtable

They also showed, as in any popular symphony concert, that they could play with equal finesse a program dominated by good if unchallenging late-19th-century romanticism, along with a substantial piece of varying, onflowing modernism, and occasional jolts of a new kind of music.

WSJ: "Peer" Pressure | Peer Gynt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | By David Littlejohn

Starting on March 1, 2012, the public will have access to this masterpiece of midcentury modernism, by way of an orientation tour that begins at the new visitor center, which by design reflects the style of the original estate.

FORBES: Walter Annenberg's Sunnylands Estate To Become A 'Camp David West'

Asked to sum up, Professor Giddens said and I have this almost verbatim that the seminar showed there was a new cultural sensibility emerging, based on the collapse of neo-liberalism and post-modernism, and the start of global cosmopolitanism.

ECONOMIST: Ideology

Like New York, this is a classic American metropolitan landscape, testifying to the relentless march of money and modernism that built this nation.

BBC: Chicago��s celluloid city

An important new exhibition at the Getty explores Googie architecture and the car culture that drove it, together with the high modernism pursued in LA by architects such as Pierre Koenig and Richard Neutra.

FORBES: Who's Afraid Of Googie? A Getty Exhibit Shows Modernist Architecture In All Its Guises

The city had long been awash in new music, but too many events gave off an insular, unwelcoming vibe, whether the house style was university modernism or downtown experimentation.

NEWYORKER: The Long Haul