Word: aestheticizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the first criminal case stemming from Amtrak's dumping, a jury in a Florida state court convicted the railroad on four felony counts of commercial littering. When sentencing takes place, Amtrak could be fined $20,000 for its offal offense. The railroad, which planned to appeal, said it would...
But the ultimate loss to art's hyperinflation may be wider and less tangible than this. Quite rightly, MOMA's Varnedoe rejects the idea that "there was some mythical period, now lost, when art was seen only as the shining purity of aesthetic experience. As long as there has been...
For Chicago's James Wood the damage comes down to a confusion between aesthetic and material value. "When a work of art passes through our doors, it should leave the world of economics," says Wood. "Walking through a great museum is not going to give you a profile that reflects...
In literature, geography is destiny, she says. But there is an influential new aesthetic emerging from what she calls the "palm latitudes."
In Mantua, a show surveys the architect, designer and painter who was the city's aesthetic dictator in the 16th century and whose robust frescoes fall midway between Michelangelo and Walt Disney.