By contrast no major institution in Britain has managed to do anything of the same sort; disappointing not least in that he is a striking representative of a great British tradition, of something we do well, and where he stands with his own heroes, George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson.
Even though they don't have a "self" yet they have these difficulties in coming to grips with the idea that they are going to have to work harder than they have even imagined in order to really distinguish themselves or to be sure not to insult the great tradition of something like painting.
The mystical tradition speaks of something called giddiness before the sacred, a way of expressing the infinite disproportion between you and the mystery with which, somehow, you have become involved.
YouTube, founded in 2005, follows in the tradition of exchanging something of value for audience attention.
"There's a long tradition of taking something and twisting it.
"I love the tradition of presenting something I've lived through, that so many people have lived through, to a new generation," he said.
In a way, she joined an appealing tradition of making something from nothing, converting trash to treasure, extracting pleasure from junk-culture detritus.
In an exaggerated version of the long-standing American tradition of abstracting something as specific as land into a generic product, this period produced not only the assembly line house, but the assembly-line site.
However, we should applaud the Strokes for heroically continuing a fine pop-cultural tradition of making something, putting it out and then petulantly disowning it, jeopardising your whole career in the process.
"About half of the artists are women, actually, and it was not on purpose," the curator said, "but I do think that photography, compared to other art forms, has a tradition of being something that's more accessible to women than, you know, back in the 19th century where you needed to go study art at an academy, and draw from the nude and so on.
Several styles in Toronto-based Jessica Bedard's bridal footwear collection feature a pale blue tip on the heel — a nod the tradition of having something blue.
