Word: ephemerae
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...whatever. Diebenkorn, one of the most flintily self-critical artists who ever lived in America, took this in his stride, and his oeuvre (closed, alas, too early) handily answers his detractors. Nobody who cares about painting as an art--as distinct from propaganda, complaint or "cutting edge" ephemera--could be indifferent to Diebenkorn's work or to the long, intense and fascinating dialogue with the modernist past it embodies...
...beach I walk is like most others. The waves churn up the sounds of eternity; the sand speaks of ephemera and decay. I see all the usual symbols and have all the usual reactions. According to Nevil Shute, we were destined to destroy ourselves and wind up On the Beach, and may yet. The possibility seems remote tonight. This is more like Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," on which the occurrence of an earth-jolting discovery awakens thoughts of self-examination, self-location, a touch of resolve...
...February, around the time negotiations for the MCA deal were winding up, Koolhaas released his second book, a stubby, curious tome called S,M,L,XL, after the four sizes that Koolhaas projects come in. A dense, not always coherent conglomeration of photos, plans, essays, fiction, cartoons and alphabetized ephemera, it's the ultimate coffee-table book for a generation raised on both MTV and Derrida...
Which brings me back to the LED signs. Talk about pixillation! These are sparkle, ephemera and coming and going, taken all the way. Upstairs in Annenberg Hall, there is text and patterned color in the stained glass windows. Iconography and cultural content chosen with confidence by a single generation and there forever. Downstairs, Venturi's LED signs continue the theme, but with a twist. Text, colors, cultural content and iconography in constant tradition; millenial energy and uncertainty. The movement of the LEDs, surprisingly, is what keeps the place dynamic; turn them off and the space deadens. But what they need...
Designer Geoffrey Beene, who scrupulously avoids ephemera, says, "I wouldn't make fun of women by dressing them as children. It's a trick that has been used by streetwalkers in Paris for years." That does not seem to bother other rulers of fashion. Karl Lagerfeld likes the style, though he thinks it looks best on women with "runway bodies...