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...marketplace, it began to wield, as early as the '70s, in Hilton Kramer's words, "a pervasive and often cynical authority over the very public it affects to despise." We live now in an age of empty "Sensation" (to borrow the title of the recent Brooklyn Museum of Art show) and debate not the subtleties of high craftsmanship but the appropriateness of public funding--talk about power!--for works that large segments of that public, not all of them ignoramuses, deplore. Strolling the latest Venice Biennale, novelist (and art critic) John Updike observed that it was nearly impossible to find...
...escaping gender restrictions and defining herself as a legitimate ruler lay in consummate imagemaking. She stage-managed her own personality cult. She dressed to kill, glittering with jewels in wondrous costumes to bedazzle her subjects. She went on royal progresses--the equivalent of photo-ops--to show off and get to know her people. She had the common touch, able to rouse a crowd or charm a citizen. She had flattering portraits painted and copies widely distributed. She encouraged balladeers to pen propagandistic songs. Her marvelous mythmaking machinery cultivated a mystic bond with the English people. "We all loved...
...Best TV Show The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening...
Dazzlingly intelligent and unapologetically vulgar, the Simpsons have surpassed the humor, topicality and, yes, humanity of past TV greats. RUNNERS-UP The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite...
Best Musical Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein (1945) They set the standards for the 20th century musical, and this show features their most beautiful score and the most skillful and affecting example of their musical storytelling. RUNNERS-UP Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling; Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice...