It also offers a somewhat fresh if hardly unforeseeable fusion of several fashionable art notions, among them site-specificity, found-object recycling, interactive art and architectural re-creation.
Samurai culture, or some martial-arts notion of it, has long been a standard Western model of "Japanese-ness," and an ethnic cliché.
In The Work of Art, the notion of aura is extended rather recklessly from old photographs to works of art in general.
So much of life is an uncanny acting out of emotions that we first encounter in art, a notion that Hayes's verse, in which the poet quotes his father's quotation of James Brown, explores with extraordinary power.
In his discourse, given to students at the University of Utah in 1972 and replayed here, Smithson, in whose art the notion of entropy played a crucial role, examines the crumbling structure as if it were a Mayan ruin.
At the heart of the story is a play within a play: while the story is specifically about the convicts' journey, it is also about the revolutionary idea of redemption through art (a notion made possible by an officer who decides that rather than control the convicts by force and the threat of the noose they should instead stage a play).
"Abundant Invention," art expanding notions of nature, with works by Jackie Brookner, Ming Fay, Maria Martinez-Canas, Michelle Stuart and Frances Whitehead; through Dec. 10.
The Conservative culture team are actually winning some friends in the arts – a notion that would have seemed absurd five years ago.
Recently joining their roster, Levine's work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity.
It was less restaurant and more art installation, a notion Momo is clearly taken with.
