When Harold Ross drew up the prospectus for this magazine in the nineteen-twenties, he wrote that The New Yorker “will be what is commonly called sophisticated.” But what on earth did that mean? Ben ...
As someone who prizes the opportunity to attend screenings of old movies myself from time to time, I've certainly felt this frustration acutely. The universe of work that can only be enjoyed ...
THE difference in character between the present time and certain periods in the past is strikingly exemplified by the use nowadays of ‘sophistication’ instead of ‘urbanity’ in expressing the earmark ...
On a wall panel introducing Slang Aesthetics!, a big exhibition of new work by Robert Williams at the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, the artist cites Picasso’s dictum that “Sophistication is the greatest ...
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