Word: aestheticizing
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"Ever since Jackson Pollock and the first abstract expressionists began enlarging their canvases back in the late 1940s, American paintings have been getting bigger and bigger. To show the lengths?and heights?that artists are going to nowadays, Manhattan's Jewish Museum this week put on display 23 mural-size...
After moving from Delaware to New York City in the summer of 2001, I realized something deep and dear to me was shifting. Despite my stormy relationship with rap, my music collection had always been adorned with a COLORED ONLY sign. But New York's internationalism forced me to rethink...
A superb blend of aesthetic minimalism and compelling emotions, it is not surprising that this film received the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival. The acting is uniformly first-rate; every actor from Murray to “girl on bus” plays...
The O'Shaughnessy Dam was stirring controversy even before 1913, when the U.S. Congress, against the impassioned pleas of conservationist John Muir and his Sierra Club, voted through a bill allowing its construction. But though the debate is not new, the context has changed dramatically. On one hand, free-running...
Tuttle's small-scale aesthetic doesn't always translate well into larger formats. In a not-quite-sculptural work like Six--a palisade of sticks, some of them shrouded in cloth hoods--the scrimshaw intricacy of his little wall pieces is lost, and not much comes forward to compensate. As...