Word: aestheticism
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Taking inspiration from the cabarets of Weimar-era Germany, Palmer and Viglione adopted an aesthetic and on-stage persona that is by turns dark, satirical, theatrical, and a little threatening.
Of course Hollywood has become less bashful about painting movie screens red in recent decades, but does this violence necessarily make for better films? Not really. Few filmmakers this season have shown a real mastery of violence as an aesthetic technique.
The narcissism of today’s youth and the moral vacuity of the liberal intelligentsia are common enough themes among disgruntled moralists and curmudgeonly conservatives, but rarely are they afforded the delightful aesthetic treatment of a deft novelist, combining penetrating satire with deep pathos and rich characterization.
Julius, their extravagantly gay friend, is a book and film reviewer whose former potential has waned through his years of bohemian dissipation. His might be said to emulate the dictum of his personal idol, Oscar Wilde: “I put all my genius into my life; I put only...
The white paint coating the walls of “The FEAR of smell—the smell of FEAR” exhibit at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center appears upon first glance to be in typical art gallery style. The neutral paint, however, belies the fact...