Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The results are posing something of a problem for theorists. Says Jeremiah Ostriker, chairman of Princeton's astrophysics department: "There is no theory using conventional physics that can explain these structures without causing other inconsistencies." Ostriker has coauthored a quite unconventional scenario involving hypothetical objects called cosmic strings. These strings...
It is always possible, especially with George Bush, that appearances are deceiving. Diplomats now talk openly of numerous private exchanges between the + U.S. and its allies about the developments in Eastern Europe. They note that Bush has a history of nurturing plans in secrecy and suddenly springing them, to the...
But the ultimate loss to art's hyperinflation may be wider and less tangible than this. Quite rightly, MOMA's Varnedoe rejects the idea that "there was some mythical period, now lost, when art was seen only as the shining purity of aesthetic experience. As long as there has been...
The growth area for forgery today is the work of the Russian avant-garde -- Rodchenko, Popova, Larionov, Lissitsky, Malevich -- which, as a result of perestroika, is coming on the market in some quantity after 60 years of Stalinist-Brezhnevian repression. Prices are zooming, and authentication is thin. Sotheby's held...
This indicates a radically transformed market structure. In art as in other markets at the end of Reagan's economic follies, America sinks and Japan rises. In this context it is fatuous to utter bromides about art's being the Common Property of Mankind. Americans now begin to view the...