The Flemish expressionists provide an example of reconciling tradition and experiment.

When secession serves the needs of political homogeneity and self-determination, it might actually serve the common good.

Rivera deliberately chose the moment of creation as a subject matter, recognizing its revolutionary potential.

Those who can see past their prejudices will discern in Twombly’s work a revolutionary aesthetic experience, where movement flows hot and red in a thrilling abstraction of Italian futurism.

While distinguishing between good and bad taste undoubtedly smells like an elitist activity, the conditions that Hume attaches to it do not, at first glance, seem to be.

Hypersensitivity forces beauty into a politically-correct straitjacket. It is hardly surprising that such straitjackets kill beauty, for what cannot breathe, cannot live.