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‘Modernism in Film’ runs on Dec. 6

November 11, 2024 – 8:50 am

Alfred Hitchcock’s playful light comedy North by Northwest, next up in our Modernism in Film series queue, is the perfect tonic to soothe our post-election anxieties. A film set in 1950s paranoia, it stars an urbane and witty Cary Grant as advertising executive Roger Thornhill, who gets mistaken for a spy and is on the […]

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‘Big G’ house gets big thumbs up

November 4, 2024 – 3:27 pm

Saturday’s delightful tour of Chris and Tom North’s renovated midcentury modern home in Western Hills was a case study of how love at first sight can sometimes be mistaken for Love at First Bite. As the Norths told a healthy crowd of Lawrence Modern attendees, the forever home they purchased “on the spot” in 2022 […]

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A profile that stands out

October 2, 2024 – 8:16 pm

If Tinder was a dating app site for houses instead of people, the home at 4010 West 13th St., our next Lawrence Modern hookup location, would be a definite swipe to the right. A tempting A-frame beauty with solid bone structure and sexy curb appeal, she was love at first sight for Chris and Tom […]

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Kiss Me Deadly June 30th!

June 18, 2024 – 2:53 pm

The next film in our series exploring modernism in the movies, Robert Aldrich’s acerbic 1955 noir classic Kiss Me Deadly, will screen at the end of the Lawrence Arts Center’s Free State Film Festival on June 30th. Lawrence Modern’s in-house film buff Kellee Pratt will once again introduce the film, followed by a virtual Q&A […]

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804 students rise again, but not with grandma

May 17, 2024 – 11:39 pm

My first instinct when I approached Studio 804’s latest finished product, located at 436 Indiana St., was to photograph it from every conceivable angle. The house looked radiant as it shimmered in the early morning sunlight, and I felt an irresistible, perhaps mindless, urge to capture the fleeting moment before it was gone. On this […]

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