Word: kitsched
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...further beyond the standard repertory, the all-Harvard team of Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang and Robert Portney, violins, played a Trio by Moskowski, a turn-of-the-century Polish composer. The threesome showed their justifiably condescending attitude toward this shallow piece by appearing in Harvard sweatshirts, matching musical kitsch with visual kitsch. Fortunately, they treated this bubble gum in a sufficiently good-humored way to prevent its sweetness from becoming sickening...
...Victorians, as Chesterton observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." It was an epoch of elegance and kitsch, dignity and pornography, liberal cant and imperial overreach. It is this instability that enlivens-and afflicts-Brian Moore's novel, The Great Victorian Collection...
...interesting subject matter, composition or concept. James Hajicek's cyanotype triptychs of boring, lifeless western scrubland are boring, lifeless photographs, and Mark Harper, who obviously worked very hard at making three-dimensional constructions of fabric, etched silver and silkscreened glass etchings, achieves results that smack too much of kitsch and too little of real conceptual innovation. Happily, only a few works in the show share these flaws...
...pontiffs. The only distinguished image of a Pope in the collection is one of Francis Bacon's variations on Velásquez's Innocent X. The gift of Italian Automobile Tycoon Gianni Agnelli, it sits, mouth open in a feral and silent snarl, glaring at the sacramental kitsch around it. But that it should be hung as "religious" art is unconscious black humor...
...anticipated in a big university town. Maybe not a bar for undergraduates, the Wursthaus appeals to anyone who likes good foreign beers (the selection of beer upstairs is the best in Cambridge) and quiet. Try to ignore the decor, which is an awful attempt at South German kitsch. Also the food is worth avoiding, just as the beer is worth making a special visit for about once a month. The prices are very high here, and the drinks (especially upstairs) are weak...