Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It would be easy to argue that Roy Lichtenstein has never made an original image. Rather he has made images of images for 35 years, whether literal copies of comic book cells or appropriations of Monet and Pollock, all executed in his signature Benday dots. Yet although one might think...
NEW YORK--It may be impossible to finger the zeitgeist of contemporary art, but lucky for us the Whitney Museum would rather die than give up trying. Critics, however, would probably have killed the Whitney Biennial, the museum's signature showcase of contemporary art, years ago if it weren't...
I don't want to bore people with my music," says Michael Daugherty. He needn't worry. Daugherty's zany, pop-flavored brand of classical music is lots of things, but boring isn't one of them. His compositions include Elvis Everywhere, a work for string quartet and three Elvis...
In the more liberal congregations, heaven is found mostly in hymns, preserved like a bug in amber. There are still some churches where one can find a robust heavenly vision in the late 1990s--among Southern Baptists, and African-American denominations as a whole. But most late-20th century American...
With formals, as with peek-a-boo, the fun is in both seeing and being seen. We want to show off our fine feathers and see how everyone else looks. Formal attire brings out the best and the worst in fashion sense: like the Oscars, even the most boring formal...