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...maybe we have forgotten. Grasping the essential character of the beautiful has long been the object of philosophical and theoretic interest and finds expression through this exhibit's formalist regard. In recent years, there has been a revival of aestheticism; witness the Regarding Beauty exhibition last year at the Hirshhorn. Recent literary investigations also suggest an atmosphere of palpable eagerness to explore beauty topically. The revival is a kind of return to beauty for art's sake, liberated from any service or subordination to a social or political climate of interpretation...
...repeating patterns, its kaleidoscopic structure, yet is full of a necessary and freeing space. Across the room, Emily Cheng's oil-on-canvas "Silent Elaborations" overtly draws the eye to its center. It's a two-dimensional theater, drapery framing the precious vision of a highly ornate object, the jeweled product of careful work...
...modest termbill increase would not be a hardship to students. If they strenuously object to the hike, students can simply opt out of the fee by checking off a box. And it is not as if the council has proposed recklessly raising the fee--the termbill remains unchanged since 1981. It has not even been adjusted for inflation. This means that every year students have been paying less money in terms of real purchasing power. Subsequently, the budget of the council has been shrinking for almost 20 years. This year, there is the possibility that the council will be unable...
Hungering for reevaluation of your preconceived ideas about the history of the dematerialization of the art object? GLOBAL CONCEPTUALISM: POINTS OF ORIGIN, 1950s-1980s really satisfies. The show opens at the List, 20 Ames St., on Oct. 24. For more information, call...
...years. For example, I told the reporter last spring that I had found Dean Nathans to be "extremely supportive" of her staff. I am well aware that not all of her former staff members share this point of view, and they are entitled to their opinions, but I object to the emphasis that the reporter has placed on the (mostly anonymous) negative comments while neglecting to quote sufficiently the views of those making positive comments. Indeed, the negative intent of the article is obvious in the title and in the opening and closing lines. The article thus comes across...