Word: banalizing
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...weakest and least representative piece-Koo Jeong-a's "Oslo," a miniature sand-dune topography made of aspirin filings-is, ironically, the one selected for the cover of the catalogue. In an otherwise pithy exhibit, this oblique and banal concept piece is a huge misstep. (The curators appear equally confused, commenting on it only with the flustered remark that it "raises questions about the fundamental idea of landscape...
...something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then, in 1970, he unveiled a complete change. Inspired by the banal, ordinary objects in his apartment and studio, Guston began to paint shoes, books, easels, clocks and the like with a confident, almost crude, naivet, reveling in the physical nature of things, of paint and of the act of painting. The ensemble of 27 small paintings in A New Alphabet that...
Like figure skating at the winter games, women's gymnastics makes every other sport at the Summer Olympics look positively banal. Nowhere else can you find such intense drama, so much crying and hysteria and so many tiny, oppressed waifs. But who could have possibly envisioned the tragicomic-mystery that unfolded this week in Sydney! Let's relive the high, low and just plain weird moments...
...These movies, like "Best in Show," are about people lost in their banal dreams, and their appeal depends on not calling attention to their silliness, on permitting them to maintain their premises. This is something Guest is good at. He says the idea for his new film arose at a dog park where he took his own pooches. He liked the "very low-key nice people" but noticed that their discussions about dogs "sounded like they were about children...
...first problem lies in the implication that the call for court subdivision raises: the questioning of judicial competency, which could be extended indefinitely to apply to even the most banal of cases and which could set an uncomfortable precedent. How many judges in this country hold medical degrees, majored in psychology, or have a background in forensic science? And yet, judges are called upon daily to evaluate factual material that can include medical records, the mental state of a defendant, or DNA evidence--all of which are probably better understood by an expert in each of those respective fields. Does...