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'Startling study of fractured, crazy Black Country' Tom Hicks' art celebrates the quirky and often-overlooked sights around the Black Country.

Tom Hicks' latest volume 'Black Country Type II', published by the modernist.
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The latest issue of @themodernist.bsky.social magazine is all about Pleasure and features my article about the development of amusement arcades on #Blackpool Golden Mile. Loving the choice of orange paper, sets off my pics a treat!

New short course from the modernist.
Introduction to Modernism
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Black Country Type ll.

Photographs by Tom Hicks

Hardcover: 144 pages, Colour, 250x200mm

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Are you in Edinburgh this weekend? Then don't miss this.
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Black Country Type ll.

Photographs by Tom Hicks

Hardcover: 144 pages, Colour, 250x200mm

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/black-coun...

Free tours on the modernist app
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Eros House, Catford, Lewisham

1963

Rodney Gordon of the Owen Luder Partnership

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Can you learn to love the ugliest buildings in Scotland? Some might say these buildings are among the ugliest in Scotland. But here’s a chance to give them another look, from a different angle, and maybe…

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Just got my copy of this 🥰 As an ex Art & Design slide librarian, this little book is a joy & a gem. The collection I managed included many Design Council slide packs, & when digital took over & it was disposed of, I kept some slides ♥︎ the-modernist.org/products/pro... @themodernist.bsky.social

In last week's newsletter I mentioned an exhibition in Bristol.

The lovely people @themodernist.bsky.social are offering a guided tour in Feb. Extremely limited places. More details here: the-modernist.org/products/bau...

We love getting parcels from @themodernist.bsky.social

This week's included a lovely pile of 'Modernist Churches of Scotland'

and Commonplace - a new photo zine produced in collaboration with Uhm! Publishing

Issue One: Brighton and Issue Two: Blackpool Fronts are now in stock

New exhibition. Opens today.
Here Where You Are Standing.
Paintings by Peter James Houghton.
at the modernist, 58 Port Street, Manchester, M1 2EQ.
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twenty twenty five we've exhibited stockport pigeons and concrete sound mirrors, and delivered activities from bristol to glasgow. We've mooched from Marylebone to Peterlee, attended book fairs from Edinburgh to London,...

What we got up to in twenty twenty five...
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Next on our Arch-vent Calendar is Modernist Scotland by Bruce Peter.

Published by @themodernist.bsky.social it features 150 buildings from across the nation whose architects embraced Modernist principles to create a distinctive architectural identity which shaped our towns & cities

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Modernist Scotland by Bruce Peter.

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Do you need a kalender? Yes! You need this one.

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Our pictogram Christmas cards are available now.
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Song of the Suburbs — John Grindrod. Screening of Graham Williamson’s short documentary film Song of the Suburbs , with an introduction to the film by Graham Williamson and a discussion between Graham and John Grindrod. A Manches...

Join filmmaker Graham Williamson and I, and @themodernist.bsky.social in Manchester, to see Graham's brilliant short film Song of the Suburbs, and to hear us in conversation about suburbia in all of its weirdness www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events/song-...

Let’s celebrate Scotland’s endangered modernist architecture.
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Tidying up and reunited with no 32 of @themodernist.bsky.social journal as edited by #RuthLang. My contrib was an exploration of the contemporary not-seeing of Elizabeth Denby.

Elliott Sargent and I, representing the Bristol branch of @themodernist.bsky.social, are teaming up with Bristol Civic Society to lead a walk around Bristol's modernist buildings:

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Modernist Scotland
Out now
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Modernist Scotland - available now.
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We'll be at the Bound Art Book Fair at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery, with over 90 artist publishers, all weekend. Come and see.
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Staying in Penlan, in Caban Corgi as featured in @themodernist.bsky.social Cabin Crew and it's utterly fab. #midCenturyMiniBreak

Meet the modernists… It began as an art-project inspired by the humble British red telephone box.

Full story: vitsoe.com/voice/modernist

Pictures:
@jordanbunker
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Are you a fan of modernist, mid-century and brutalist architecture? We have good news for you: the Modernist Book Fair is coming back to our London shop this month.

Find more details and mark your calendars: instagram.com/p/DPWB_WZDEwX

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I’ve lots of photos to sort from today but here are a few to be going on with.

Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol
(Ronald H Sims, 1968)

Access arranged by @themodernist.bsky.social