So Girma Yifrashewa, a 45-year-old Ethiopian pianist and composer who performed at the Issue Project Room in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday night, offers a rare and fascinating example of aesthetic adaptation and convergence.
The same can be true of works of high art, which may attract us more as expressions of the artist's personality or as evocations of a fascinating age than for their aesthetic merit.
While BL and gay manga are definitely intertwined in some fascinating ways, there remains stark aesthetic and philosophical differences between the two genres.
By highlighting Morley's curatorial interests and borrowing her aesthetic, the show provides fascinating insight into the life of this formidable but little-remembered West Coast art trailblazer.
But the Nature Theater of Oklahoma takes this aesthetic appreciation of everyday discourse to fascinating, funny, even perverse new extremes.
And the sections of the show devoted to religion are particularly fascinating for their demonstration of how spiritual and aesthetic currents intersect.
Launched to accommodate the no-frills prolificacy of Delroy Edwards and his friends, the brand new imprint, launched in October 2013, quickly became a fascinating canvas for a new and gritty house aesthetic.
"There's an aesthetic in decay that artists have found fascinating for a long time," he said.
The Nature Theater of Oklahoma, meanwhile, one of the freshest young companies to recently emerge, takes aesthetic pleasure in pushing demotic discourse to fascinating, funny, even perverse new extremes.
What's fascinating about James adaptations is how starkly they draw the aesthetic battle lines between the narrative arts of literature and film.
