Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is not merely that the upper middle class's voracious enthusiasm for art of almost any kind "coincides" with the inflation of minor talents into major ones, of mere promise into claims on art history. It is that the one has produced the other. In the process, too many painters have been left without a middle ground between the miseries of oblivion and the stresses of cultural stardom. Hence fame depends, to a grotesque and absurd extent, on painters' ability to excite envy among their rivals, and the sense of common reciprocity that pervaded the art world...
...major point of this proposal in his TV speech last week, the Treasury's numbers indicate that its application would still be sharply limited. Main reason: many tax breaks even under the new law would escape the minimum tax. The new minimum-tax rules are expected to raise a mere $1.1 billion of additional federal revenue...
Amidst the rallies, sit-ins, and shouting, however, many of the original arguments for divestiture have been reduced to mere slogans, easy prey for those who still believe that constructive engagement by American firms can erode apartheid from within...
...label of wunderkind can be a fearsome burden for any mere mortal. When Peter Sellars, 27, was named director of the new American National Theater at Washington's Kennedy Center last June, his appointment was greeted with both shock and greedy anticipation. This was, after all, the Harvard prodigy who had made his name with audacious updatings of Shakespeare, transplanted Handel's opera Orlando to Cape Canaveral and spiced up Maxim Gorky's 1904 play Summerfolk with songs by George Gershwin. Yet his first offering at Kennedy Center, a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I directed by Timothy...
...Marco to any number of detached frescoes and tombs that have not died from being moved. As the Great Structuralist in the Sky would put it, loss of context means enrichment by recontextualization, and site-specific is as site-specific does. What it does here is serve as a mere scrim for the question of Serra's rights as an artist who, much as his opponents may now resent it, can be argued to have had a binding deal with the Government...