Word: craftsmanship
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...this what you mean when you talk about the craftsmanship of the music...
...just prefer the craftsmanship and care and humility of design and artifacts from the earlier era," says Ware, who collects pop ephemera like turn-of-the-century sheet music. "[There is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and I guess threatening. Everything has to be cool. Everything has to be sexy and fast-paced and rock-and-roll." Daniel Clowes, creator of Eightball comics, remembers visiting a modern-art museum in Amsterdam with Ware: "After about three rooms of Damien Hirst-ish paintings, I thought he was going to start tearing...
...know. It's a problem I have, I guess. I collect a bunch of junk from the turn of the century - sheet music and records and musical instruments. Essentially, I think I just prefer the craftsmanship and care and humility of design and artifacts from the earlier era. And I don't know if that's just the result of me having the benefit of hindsight and sort of editing things out, or if it really is there. But it seems [there is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and, I guess, threatening...
...pieces with at least a vague beginning and end, while the rest was a heavily overlapped stream distinguishable only to the attentive ear. Fellow DJ superstar and frequent collaborator Sasha calls Digweed "the best DJ on the planet," but if this is true it is more for Digweed's craftsmanship (evinced by his smooth layering) than for brazen originality or nerve. Still, he does have a showy side. For example, he made heavy use of Axis' headlight-like lighting effects to back up the rare musical climax...
...Hilton Kramer's words, "a pervasive and often cynical authority over the very public it affects to despise." We live now in an age of empty "Sensation" (to borrow the title of the recent Brooklyn Museum of Art show) and debate not the subtleties of high craftsmanship but the appropriateness of public funding--talk about power!--for works that large segments of that public, not all of them ignoramuses, deplore. Strolling the latest Venice Biennale, novelist (and art critic) John Updike observed that it was nearly impossible to find anything that "reminded one of art in the old sense, even...