Word: aestheticize
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I’m not going to attempt an aesthetic apologia of Ratatat; in fact, I think defending any music on rational terms is usually an exercise in pompous futility. But I will stand up and applaud the CEB for finally nodding in the direction of the long-marginalized musical...
Rigorous, ascetic, distilled - these are words repeatedly applied to Zumthor's work, and no wonder. You sense that he might prefer his buildings to be judged by the same standards by which we "judge" mountains and trees - for their fundamental power and durability, for the ways they seem to spring...
“Examined Life,” points towards the days of Socrates, not only in its opening lines—Socrates’ famous defense “The unexamined life is not worth living” reaffirmed millennia later by the booming voice of Cornel West?...
It’s night, and Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler sits alone in the backseat (appropriate!) of a moving taxi. He’s singing the lyrics to “Windowsill,” which, like so many of the other tracks off 2007’s ?...
Amid all the images of rubble and heartbreak from Italy's worst earthquake in decades, the nation's nickname, bel paese (beautiful country), strikes a bittersweet chord. On Tuesday, the aesthetic was one of both gloom and determination as the scale of destruction came more fully into focus. Prime Minister...