Word: aestheticism
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The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, as the city is officially known, is literally at Hong Kong's border. After immigration, a visitor walks across a narrow bridge spanning a stinking, black canal?the first whiff of something rotten in the air?and steps directly into a city overeager to offer...
What other artists were working in Delft? What effect did they have on Vermeer and he on them? Little enough is known about Vermeer, but presumably he wasn't some sort of lonely angelic visitation, popping up from nowhere. Every artist has aesthetic parents, brothers and sometimes offspring. But genius...
Personally, I'm not a big fan of looking at stuff that makes me ill. It doesn't feel as important or profound as experiencing something of great beauty. Mostly I just get tired of it. But "Marbles in My Underpants," needs to exist, if not for the pleasure of...
Not that PSLM is afraid of Summers. Amy C. Offner ’01 reportedly told her minions that Summers is “very ugly and remarkably inarticulate.” But don’t count on Summers to feel injured by Offner’s fighting words...
The ICA’s current exhibitions, though perhaps only weakly related aesthetically, share the theoretical mission of exploring the connections between individuals and their surroundings. More than merely providing aesthetic satisfaction, the exhibits give one ample fodder for contemplation of the relationships between the personal, the cultural and the...