At the Hirshhorn Museum, conservators recently had to figure out how to hang an enormous drawing by Toba Khedoori without indenting the paper or scratching the tacky, hand-applied wax that covers the entire surface of the work.
They put it on their hands; it makes the hands tacky.
It was five minutes to midday when I was handed my tacky red Starbucks apron, stained from top to bottom with stale coffee and milk.
The allusion to Hurricane Katrina, on the other hand, is just tacky.
4. To the ground fish, add ground onions, matzos, eggs, salt and pepper and mix well with your hands to a tacky consistency.
Here the hand-to-hand wars are reminders of this picture's tacky genesis.
The short answer to the question posed to Times readers about "how we experience art museums" (letters, Aug. 17) is through a tacky, two-dimensional photo taken by a tacky, tiny hand-held camera or cellphone.
Coconut, hazelnut, cashew, hemp milks: distant sirens, usually encountered in punitively expensive hand-pressed blends at places that consider macchiatos tacky and instead offer cortados and Gibraltars.
The Mad Men world makes a fetish of ornamentation and deifies mysterious artifice; our culture, on the other hand, prizes an almost apathetic informality and rewards the tackiest forms of extroversion.
For those seeking a painless, removable tattoo without those tacky decals, Orga, a Tokyo-based artists collective, has a solution: a snug-fitting line of hand-tattooed leather clothing.
He collected snow globes (only the tackiest!), saved his report cards (including those from Hebrew school), and gazed at the natural world, entranced, camera in hand.
