He has what seems to be a guileless way of asserting art-world pedigree while acting as though he stood outside it all — he's of it and yet not.
On Saturday night, Roxy Music are so keen to assert art-rock credentials that they reserve their hits, perhaps unwisely, for a stirring sprint to the finish.
Melissa, who is a poet, answered her own shirt's question in the affirmative, asserting that "art is what you think it is," which fit the overall inclusive feeling of the preview party as a whole.
"The strip-tease dance," the Minskys asserted, "is art.
Here, the festival's Web site asserts, queer art has been "hijacked by the mainstream," "absorbed and erased".
In it they asserted that art had a value and function independent of the state, and that geometric principles should be the basis for sculpture.
In the concluding essay in The Renaissance, Pater asserted that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it acknowledges neither moral standards nor utilitarian functions in its reason for being.
It is the only photograph of that day to assert the art of the photographer: among hundreds of devastating pictures, by amateurs as well as professionals, that horrify and transfix us because they record the details of a crime that outstripped imagination – even Osama bin Laden dared not expect such a result – this one stands out as a more ironic, distanced, and therefore artful, image.
FOR 20 years or so, the composer Ned Rorem went around grimly asserting that the art song was languishing, especially the American art song.
He was alone among his peers in the 1910s in maintaining that American art could equal European art and in asserting that women could create art equal to that produced by men.
