As the L.A. Weekly art critic Doug Harvey writes in the biographical essay in THE ORIGINAL ART OF BASIL WOLVERTON: From the Collection of Glenn Bray (Last Gasp/Grand Central, $35), "Artists from the world of 'fine' or 'high' art, such as... Kenny Scharf, Peter Saul, Jim Nutt and many others, turned Wolverton's pop-culture monstrosities into museum-worthy artifacts".
"What's interesting is why this fellow feels it is worthy to preserve the artifacts".
Lawrence Rothfield, founder of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago and a member of Saving Antiquities for Everyone, said the study wrongly suggests the entire lot of privately owned, unprovenanced artifacts are museum worthy.
The elegance of the space feels worthy of the carefully restored violins, artifacts that survived.
Time was when American opera companies considered musicals as suspect artifacts from another planet, hardly worthy of serious attention -- not even on a par with the operettas those companies would occasionally stage when they needed a box office lift.
For Smilla, taking the ice in, feeling it in her mouth, and learning all she can from it as it dissolves is a common pastime, and one that will prove useful in her search for an artifact that some people consider worthy of murder.
She approached "Vanessa" not like some neo-Romantic artifact but as a substantive, intelligent and worthy contemporary work.
In the USA some biologists have largely dismissed the grass balds of the Southern Appalachians as human artifacts or anomalous and transitory elements of regional geography, worthy of only limited preservation efforts.
Dan Conover concluded that while the "darkly comic satire" was "a worthy addition to the Gibson canon and a significant cultural artifact", it would not rank among the author's best works.
We then address the main features of the SigShrink functions; artifact-free denoising and smooth contrast functions make SigShrink a worthy tool for various signal and image processing applications.
