At this temperature, something rather unusual is thought to happen.Atomic nuclei are bundles of protons and neutrons which, along with electrons, are the basis of normal, modern matter.
"Ten Days in the Hills," unable to subdue its modern matter to a late-medieval courtliness and formality, strives for, and to an impressive extent achieves, a kindred richness.
Degas's transition to modern subject matter, evident in Scene from the Steeplechase, was a long and gradual one, not an overnight conversion.
The last, daring word in modern theater and modern subject matter when it opened on Broadway in 1921, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of a prostitute's redemption now seems all but buried in quaintness, myth and exotica.
Caillebotte's originality lay in his attempt to combine the careful drawing and modeling and exact tonal values advocated by the Académie with the vivid colours, bold perspectives, keen sense of natural light, and modern subject matter of the Impressionists.
Dozens of graphite-on-paper studies for the painting are on view, and except for the modern subject matter, they would not look out of place in a 19th-century landscapist's sketchbook.
We've seen the indecently satisfying rise of Heisenberg, revelling in an increasingly murderous rampage across the southern United States, and now we've also seen the fall of the house of White, an explicitly Shakespearian take on a terribly modern subject matter.
As Sir Nicholas Serota of the Tate put it, "I've obviously failed to persuade Government that [the Tate Modern] matters as much as a new hospital or school".
Note that word, so practical and modern; it matters.
