The phrase "art contingent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about the nature of art, particularly in contexts where the value or interpretation of art is dependent on certain conditions or factors.
Example: "The value of this painting is art contingent, relying heavily on the cultural context in which it is viewed."
Alternatives: "art dependent" or "art conditional".
The emptied middle that they bracket buzzes with possibilities for a truly satisfactory art, contingent on whether our time proves itself worthy of it.
And there was also a realist art contingent, led by Ross Perot and former Interior Secretary James Watt, who managed to get a figurative sculpture installed nearby, the abstract-realist argument going back to Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto memorial.
Unlike most of the Biennale pieces, which necessarily are displayed indoors under watchful eyes, all the new murals in this first-ever street art contingent are free to see and open to all members of the public on the street day and night.
The festival – essentially a big family-friendly chill-out session – has a big performing arts contingent, too: dance, theatre and spoken word, as well as workshops from acro yoga and Japanese tea tasting to finger knitting and didgeridoo.
For them, everything in experience, and in art, was contingent.
However, receipt of ART was contingent on a CD4 count <250 so low CD4 counts were strongly negatively correlated with receipt of ART, and models adjusting for ART provided a better model fit.
The composer as small businessman is a concept that the art-for-art's-sake contingent tries to deny us, but it is well to remember that the most dedicated aesthete has dentist's bills to pay and children to put through college.
The value of a page of his art is also contingent on what is depicted (Superman in action or supporting characters talking?) and whether the issue is significant.
Early Friday evening, the art and fashion contingent gathered at Mark Fletcher's new exhibition space in a town house on Washington Square Park where Helmut Lang showed clusters of his totemic sculptures made from rubber, foam, tar and sheepskin, materials that would be familiar to fans of the former designer's fashion collections.
Up to four courses taken outside the University of Chicago may be counted towards the art history major, contingent on approval by the Director of Undergraduate studies (DUS).
Some fairs trumpeted special tastes, from trinket-happy luxury to lumpen demotic (what I think of as tiger-striped-naked-girlfriend art) and national contingents.
