It is this fragility that makes Goop (its name is, admittedly, dreadful) hard to dislike, as it puts forward such tentative feelers toward art and literature, spirituality and the dream of a whole, harmonious life".
Tentative shows include "Arts for Healing," in July, and "Heritage," showcasing artists whose work reflects their cultural backgrounds.
Slipping back out onto the noise of East Seventy-ninth Street, three tentative conclusions suggest themselves: art alone makes old things new; the more you read, the less you know for certain; and self-government, of every kind, is hard.
Nearly everything in the exhibition reveals some trace of the maker's hand, but the academy has embarked on a few tentative forays into more distanced art forms.
Elsewhere, he leaves meaning to be completed by the viewer in works of art that are all tentative atmosphere.
Robert Rauschenberg's famous wish to operate in the gap between art and life seems tentative by comparison; Matta-Clark's approach was gap free.
Twenty-seven when she kept this notebook, Woolf had yet to publish a novel or find a husband; her struggle to establish a sense of herself is manifest in these knowing yet tentative observations about family, marriage, and art.
We started writing up a storm – fiction, poetry, you name it – and by 1985 had made a tentative move into the burgeoning disability arts scene.
A tentative agreement that would have sent Artest to the Sacramento Kings for forward Peja Stojakovic fell through yesterday, apparently because Artest said he did not want to play for the Kings, who then reneged on the deal.
Couple that with a blossoming arts community and the tentative hope that Detroit's auto industry is resurrecting itself, and this city is a haven for pioneering bargain-hunters.
