If you are looking for confirmation of the genre's ascendancy to huge commercial, as well as artistic importance, then Skepta's Friday-afternoon set on the Pyramid stage seems strong evidence.
During their ascendancy the Medici subsidized virtually the entire range of humanistic and artistic activities associated with the Renaissance.
I don't know whether Zhao's deference to the Communist Party is sincere or ironic, but his expression of hope for the ascendancy of its liberal faction, though peculiarly policy-wonky and pragmatic as an artistic vision, aims at a necessary, if not sufficient, stage of political progress.
But Mr. Boulez's ascendancy at the Salzburg Festival is also due to the efforts of Gerard Mortier, its artistic director since 1992.
The masterpieces of Europe's imperialist ascendancy are part of a vision in which the duty of genius, whether political or artistic, was to impose its own conception of truth on the rest of the world.
Billed as one of the largest shows ever devoted to Futurism - an artistic movement introduced early in the 20th century and dominated by concepts of modernity revolving around the ascendancy of technology and the rejection of earlier artistic traditions -the exhibit at the Palazzo Grassi will range from painting and architectural design through music, literature, photography, film and fashion.
Religion sanctioned his ascendancy.
The Montagnard ascendancy had begun.
The Republican ascendancy was unstoppable.
Nurtured in the atmosphere of committed liberalism generated by the New Deal, and by such musicians as Aaron Copland, for whom artistic progress and the formation of an authentically American artistic identity were inseparable from ideas of social change, Bernstein developed quickly into an able spokesman for American cosmopolitan progressivism's short-lived ascendancy.
The surprising ascendancy of Bernie Sanders.
