Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attended by about 50 people, the dance at the Sheraton Commander Hotel attracted high school students and grandparents alike. Working with a collection of 6000 records including music from the '30s to the '80s, a disc-jockey played requests all night...
...1980s. She is (rightly) seen as both serious and popular, no easy feat. That a colleague of such fiercely reductive artists as Brice Marden, Barry Le Va and Richard Serra, formed in the hot arguments and unheated lofts of a pre-yuppie SoHo, would emerge by the mid-'80s as a corporate muralist, decorating the Volvo headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden, and the dining room of the AT&T Building in Manhattan with her fluent, electric and inexorably charming images of landscape and sea--could any development be less predictable...
...oats of conceptual art, could gratefully latch on to Bartlett. If Rhapsody today seems a mite too garrulous and fiddly to be the masterpiece many critics take it for, it remains an essential key to the shift of taste that took New York art into the '80s. In a catalog essay to this show, Art Critic Roberta Smith puts her finger on the peculiar character of Bartlett's work: "a series of reflections--of the world, of other people's art . . . a sense of manic cerebralism and arbitrariness, a distance, even an indifference . . . riddled with sophisticated obviousness." The work...
...century, designers like the Spaniard Luis Masriera were turning out lovely art nouveau brooches--golden angels balancing gleaming pearls--and as late as 1949 Salvador Dali transformed one of his famous surrealistic eyes into a diamond, ruby and enamel watch. The gold and the jewels still shine in the '80s, but too many designers, alas, seem to specialize in the weird and bizarre...
...easily prevented. Merely rewriting the bill as it passes through Congress would be sufficient to ensure that the military option will remain fully voluntary. Further, the existence of the draft did not encourage any more U.S. adventurism in the '50s, than a lack of one has in the '80s. Finally, one of the central benefits of national service would be training and job-related skills experience for all American young people, and not just those who choose to enlist in the armed forces...