It favors works that don't demand contemplation but invite, in passing, consumption of interesting — just not too interesting — spectacles.
Yuri Molodkovets's monochrome, branch-patterned photographs at AL Gallery (still seeking a permanent nest, and set to relocate once again this summer) demanded contemplation; the twee graphics and paper cut-outs of Tel Aviv's Yael Balaban and Noa Yekutieli, at Gisich, a fat wallet.
At Richard Green, a winter skating scene by Pieter Brueghel the Younger demands several minutes' contemplation (always a difficult enterprise at an art fair).
Each sip telegraphs a terse forget-me-not message to the tongue, a pinprick of bitterness demanding respect and contemplation.
Music, poetry, painting, sculpture, photography and, yes, films can overwhelm the senses with their naked beauty, without the contemplation demanded of reading Proust or Nabokov.
The comrades of Podemos are the only ones in Europe who have seriously dared to take this step and construct a vertical axis from a movement of a new potentiality and unprecedented power, organizing without demagoguery or subterfuge a pathway out of grassroots democracy -- ultimately powerless in face of that which the times demand, in the contemplation of its horizontality.
Lovers on both sides fall into melancholy contemplation of the competing demands of private love and public life.
By turns impressionistic and surreal, the book demands a degree of patient, silent contemplation that echoes the act of remembering.
(Arrival paints in broad emotional strokes, but its third act features the type of curveball that demands repeated viewings along with serious contemplation).
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
