"Pollock famously said that modern art is the expression of the contemporary aims of the age we're living in," Kimmel says.
"Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in," Pollock wrote (1 ).
Good art does, anyway (which accounts for why too much not-so-good contemporary art, aimed at the global marketplace, looks generic and everywhere alike).
But these days, when so much of contemporary art aims to subvert rather than investigate the truth, it can be problematic to bring art into a science museum.
Yesterday, the Victoria and Albert museum pulled the plug on its ambitious and daring scheme for a £100m gallery designed by Daniel Libeskind aimed at promoting contemporary design.
Most contemporary composers aim to ravish the ear or to tickle (or boggle) the mind.
A more contemporary secondary aim of AHFS therapy relates to the preservation of renal function.
Seven teams of architects from around the world unveiled new designs for the World Trade Center site yesterday, giving a remarkable civic tutorial on architecture and contemporary urban design aimed at mending the hole left in Lower Manhattan by the Sept. 11 attack.
Instead of ideas that feel contemporary, he aims for stories that are rooted in the ages.
