Word: blinged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most-talked-about art of the past decade or so was shiny, shrill and brazen. Damien Hirst's diamond-crusted skull, Jeff Koons' big mirror-steel bling things, Richard Prince's slutty-nurse paintings: they were all the swaggering output of a boom time. There were plenty of artists working in a different key, but no one could claim that anguished moralists were the representative figures...
...snippets from the 1937 trial transcript of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the multitude of old Bolshevik leaders devoured by Stalin. It's too soon to know how Kentridge will connect all this into a coherent production. But there won't be a diamond-crusted skull or a mirror-steel bling thing anywhere near it. That you can count...
...became a moral issue. There's the fundamental realization that Americans have woken up. Their bellies are too big, their cars are too big, their homes are too big, their debts are too big, and they have to go on some kind of a diet. The era of "bling" is over. (See pictures of expensive things that money...
...jive-talking cipher and Sean Combs (Derek Luke), who isn’t puffy so much as a plain, humorless sidekick. George Tillman, Jr. directs “Notorious” like it’s a boilerplate rap music video: there’s technique and bling to burn, but the whole film is so literal, so resolutely un-fun. When Biggie enters the studio to record classic “Juicy” halfway through the film, it becomes painfully evident that the rapper could tell his own story in five minutes much better than any film...
...social interaction with another oligarch, metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, attracted negative press commentary in the fall; the minister may prefer to keep a distance from the dealings of rich Russians. But Lebedev, still only 49, is no ordinary oligarch. He even rejects the label with its connotations of bling-bling lifestyle and financial secrecy, and in September confided to the Daily Telegraph that the economic slump had shrunk his fortune by two thirds. (See pictures of London's financial crisis...