With its obscenely grand tapestry of warring angels in heaven and the end of innocence in the garden of Eden, Paradise Lost will no doubt make for a fun CGI summer blockbuster, but I can't help feeling it needs at least a modicum of art-house flare to temper all the Hollywood bombast.
There is a modicum of notable art from other countries.
No great talent is required, just a modicum of handiness and some art-critical acuity.
Michaux spent his life on a quest for consciousness, self-knowledge and a modicum of inner peace in which art was more the means than the end.
Although they initially enjoyed a modicum of success in the British art world, by the mid-1960s, withethe surge in societal and institutional racism and the Americanisation of British culture, optimism turned to disillusionment as they found themselves excluded from the art system (a history ignored until the exhibition The Other Story, curated by Rasheed Araeen at the Hayward Gallery in 1989).
With an opening two-week festival that includes contemporary composition, jazz, performance art, and a modicum of traditional repertory, Zankel aims to go against the grain, to shake things up, to provide an alternative to the solemn concert rituals that unfold in such places as, well, Carnegie Hall.
The original Independence Day, which definitely isn't high art, retains a modicum of effectiveness today because there's time taken for the character beats, whether Smith's sardonic attitude in the aftermath of a dogfight with a space alien, or Pullman's palpable grief for not acting sooner before the aliens attacked.
Desperately trying to preserve my modicum of success so that I can hold my head high in this giant pecking order of art and commerce and celebrity..
"Some painters and graphic artists took refuge in glass and other applied arts as a way of escaping harassment and retaining a modicum of creative freedom".
Establishing that modicum of trust took years.
A modicum of people like it.
