Word: laconicism
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The Kotobukiya sushi bar is a no-frills establishment. There is only room for about fifteen at the bar and you'll have to wait for a stool during dinner time. However, it's well worth the wait. Though the portions are on the small side, the sushi is fresh...
Much is made of Nauman's use of words. His slogans--EAT AND DIE, TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such...
It is clear that Fairweather was deeply affected by Cubism as well as Chinese art. "I suppose it all began with Cazanne ... I've been rather like a weathercock," he remarked in one of his few and laconic interviews. Most of his mature paintings share a cellular structure-cubicles of...
Markell said that he is too tired right now to make all of the renovations that the present location at 714 Mt. Auburn St. requires. But the laconic owner he said he would like to eventually open a smaller version of Elsie's "somewhere."
3. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Here's a marvelously operatic novel, roiling with outrageous men and women and with jealousy, revenge, gunfire, deadly sea swells and lust in a lighthouse, all set in the tiny Newfoundland community of Witless Bay (one store, one restaurant, a...