Word: aestheticism
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Asked how he felt about being included in this year's Biennial exhibition at New York's Whitney museum, Ware said he felt flattered but dismissed it as "luck of the draw." "It's also fairly nonsensical because the clip that I'm including you have to sit down and...
One of our party didn’t want to wear the shoes so generously provided by the management. Her reasons for turning them down were a confused blend of aesthetic disgust (“Yuk—they clash with my stylishly faded jeans”) and hygienic anxiety...
Bernie Mac's premise is less traditional: a successful comedian--Bernie Mac--takes in his nieces and nephew after his sister develops a drug problem. But his toughlove philosophy of parenting is strictly old school. "Bernie Mac does not feel it is important to be your kids' friend," says creator...
Whenever art differs from mainstream, white male dominated trends, whenever it becomes ethnic or politically slanted, whenever it finds itself pigeonholed, viewers and critics inevitably question its aesthetic value. Yet the artist may be less concerned with composition and technique than with the political message.
Most people don’t see this as an inherent problem, as long as the work is effective in what it sets out to do: increase awareness or motivate change. As an outsider looking in on the disenfranchised world that their art represents, I became more aware?...