Word: aestheticism
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Botox: short for botulinum toxin. The name won't make you smile, but the injection can keep you from frowning. A decade ago, the toxin that causes botulism (a form of food poisoning) was a treatment only for spasmodic eye muscles. Then doctors saw that it also smoothed skin. Now...
Carlin Wing’s pieces, like “Sun-sun Co.: Hanging Meat,” present familiar marketplace images in a way that makes their familiarity painfully evident. Wing is hyper-self-conscious about symmetry and repetition, about pattern and economy of perspective. He uses ambient light...
To resolve this exigency, O’Reilly proposes a move beyond theory and philosophy—beyond art as a lens for social scrutiny. He proposes a return to a simpler aesthetic that values beauty above all and doesn’t concern itself with deeper remarks about the...
The Crimson was thrown a curveball when the Harvard Athletic Department decided to make aesthetic improvements to Lavietes Pavilion, home of the men’s and women’s basketball teams and, at the time, the baseball team’s only indoor practice facility. Those changes threatened...
And that's just the problem with the Palais de Tokyo's approach: it's fake. The works on display are all in keeping with the bogus trash aesthetic. The most significant is Chinese artist Wang Du's No Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three...