Word: grimes
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...most famous treasure. The book's seven essays give due credit to other artists who embellished the Renaissance chapel of Pope Sixtus IV, including Botticelli and Raphael. But the focus is on Michelangelo, whose preference for bright colors is coming to light as restorers clean centuries of candle soot, grime and varnish from his frescoes. Only the lunettes above the chapel windows are finished so far, but their dazzling colors, photographed by Takashi Okamura, suggest the hue of things to come...
Commuters who wait at the Kendall Square T-stop have an aural distraction that is unlike amateur subway guitarists or the tunes emanating from their iPod earbuds. Since 1984, a contraption that melds high-culture art, physics, and the grime and tumult of Boston’s mass transit has amused and frustrated subway riders...
Lady Sovereign’s generic home, the strange and wonderful London-based not-quite-hip-hop music known as Grime, is easy enough to pinpoint. But somewhere in between her North-West London home and Jay-Z’s Def Jam office, the S.O.V. started sounding like Eminem...
This kind of thing is going to have Grime purists throwing themselves in front of trains (freight, not passenger). While it’s a stock reaction for devotees of any genre to accuse those finding crossover success of betraying their roots, but Sov might deserve the complaint...
...doesn’t always leave Grime behind. The genre’s sonic thumbprints–oozing bass, hollowed-out synths, electronic squeaks, and punchy guitar doodles–are all over a few tracks...