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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis.


TATE MODERN The Tate Modern in London is Britain's national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online[1], part of the group now known simply as Tate.  

Forget Acoustiguides: Kaleidoscope eyes would be more the thing for the visitor to Tate Tate   , (John Orley) Allen 1899-1979.

American writer and editor. A leading exponent of New Criticism, he edited the Sewanee Review (1944-1946) and is known especially for his poetry, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1926).
 Modern's first major temporary exhibition, an eclectic survey of nine metropolitan centers that doubles as a grand tour of cultural change in the twentieth century. A dozen curators have lent their particular expertise to individual chapters of this global epic. Three European cities--modernist Paris, Secessionist Vienna, and revolutionary Moscow--bring us up to 1930; after World War II, the story branches out to Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē` thĭ zhənĕē`r
, Lagos, Tokyo, and New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
. The museum's hometown and Bombay share the limelight as cultural capitals of the 1990s. Feb. I-Apr. 29.
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Title Annotation:contemporary art exhibition at the Tate Modern
Author:Withers, Rachel
Publication:Artforum International
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Date:Jan 1, 2001
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