Word: aestheticize
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But beyond its final dollar tally, the disassembling of the Saint Laurent-Bergé collection is significant as a chance to mine the last vestiges of the 20th century aesthetic, and reflect on those same walls that divide - and sometimes unite - the artist and artisan, taste and knowledge, sense of...
One can only imagine the legendarily timid designer holding court here in his heyday as the avatar of the new classic aesthetic. But with Saint Laurent's death, and the dispersing of his collection, the Salon stands as a fleeting study of how one of the great designers of our...
A man in a curled white wig jerks his head, filling the air with dust as he moves. Bubbles spontaneously appear onstage, and the 14 ballet dancers begin to play with them; a woman pops the one in front of her, another tries to gather them in her arms. In...
When two figures as imposing as Igor Stravinsky and W.H. Auden collaborate to produce a work of art, the result is bound to mesmerize. Yet “The Rake’s Progress,” a modern opera first performed in Venice in 1951, is seldom included in...
“Last week, I felt like the Obama campaign,” fretted a young man in my Chinese 130 section this past Tuesday, bracing himself for the class’s unfathomably early first test. “But today...today just feels like the Obama administration...