An emphasis on the arts' utility in the quest to reach math and reading benchmarks may seem politically smart, but the science it rests on turns out to be shaky.
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They provoke Duchampian questions about art and utility, while extending the Modernist tradition of industrial assemblage and generating a lot of actual hot air (Johnson).
"Never have art and utility been joined more skillfully than in these chairs and tables and desks," wrote one in The Buffalo Daily Courier.
The late furniture sculptor and radical aesthetician Scott Burton, who disparaged distinctions between art and utility, encouraged her ambition — she has said that she finally dared to think of herself as an artist, period, around that time.
Dropping himself into bands all over the world, finding the common denominators of jazz language, is the sort of thing that Mr. Marsalis excels at, and does it as often as possible; with him, art and utility are close together.
They're divided into categories like "I'm Doing," "I'm Feeling" and "Who's Up For?," which combine art and utility to turn boring text messages into eye-catching imagery so you'll be more social.
My own recent contribution toward recapturing what is exciting and mysterious about human sexuality was combining art with utility.
Wave Hill's chief curator, Jennifer McGregor, and guest co-curator, Amy Lipton, recount that Brookner strove to break down the barriers between symbol and function, art and utility, interior and exterior spaces for art by making her Soho studio of forty years into a functioning and evolving biosphere, presenting some of its contents in galleries and other public spaces.
For the most part, I didn't even have time to find out who the artist was, where they were from, or, at times, if what I was looking at was actually art, a utility, an advertisement, or part of the décor.
