Word: aestheticized
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Of some 250,000 Fabergé pieces extant, not one was actually made by the master. His genius, while he presided over more than 500 artisans, was to impart an aesthetic that, for all the opulence of the materials, was by and large controlled and even understated.
"Fresh" is the ideal now. It stands, figuratively, for stylish, but it literally means clean, new, right. Sneakers without a smudge; jeans unblemished. But there is humor as well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you...
There is also Latin America's isolation and mournful history: the rise and fall of great pre-Columbian cultures, Spanish colonialism, wars of liberation and the unquiet peace of countless dictators. Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Márquez addressed this past last year when he accepted the 1982...
What, in the end, is one to make of this show? The problem is to decide the grounds for judgment, since it is so frank about its "populist" aims. Met Director Philippe de Montebello makes no bones about this. "The prime moving purpose of the assembly of these works," he...
An exhibition is an argument: it is art plus thought. It means sorting, ordering, categorizing, imagining, combining-the whole process of cultural criticism and understanding to which museums must address themselves if they are not to be mere storehouses. A collection shows us art, but an exhibition tries to make...