Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school's inauguration, T.M.G. chancellor Nobumichi Hiraide fostered goodwill by flawlessly crooning the Tennessee Waltz. This fall the school hopes to open a cultural-enrichment center where Sweetwater citizens can view sumi-e (Japanese ink paintings) alongside examples of American art...
Tucked away in lower Manhattan, far off the museum track, the nonprofit Drawing Center has been quietly at work since 1977. Along the way it has become one of the few necessary art institutions to be born in the U.S. in the past 15 years. Necessary because, unlike the muddle of private and semiprivate vanity museums full of outsize contemporary art foisted on the American public in the late '80s, the Drawing Center really does stand for quality -- as against what is only spectacular or "relevant." It has never done a less than interesting show. Its new one, "Inigo Jones...
Everything Jones drew breathes an air of amplitude and sophistication quite new to English art. This includes his stage designs, for he revolutionized the English theater by giving it, for the first time, the elaborate scenery with backdrops, revolving screens and sliding flats that had been developed in Italy. The confidence of his fantasies was striking, and even a costume sketch like the "fiery spirit," a torchbearer for one of his court masques, shakes its red plumage with Italianate brio. And though his inventiveness is best seen in the stone and brick of his finished buildings, one marvels...
...breach those things? There is a very, very serious problem of education and leadership. But we don't have the structure for the education we need. Nobody has done it. Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form...