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  • The prominent winds and brass, and unusual sonorities like the harsh Chinese cymbals that convey Hippolyt's disgust at Phaedra's advances, increase the piece's hard-edge quality.

    Divided Inside, in Theme and Structure Heidi Waleson 2011

  • These are hero's clothes in the glossy, "Top Gun" sense, with romanticized military flair — hard-edge details rather than a show of brute force.

    Military Chic During Wartime? Yes, Sir! 2010

  • I've heard that there are a number of artists who feel they should have been included, but in general it's a carefully selected and well-defined collection, starting with a wonderful gallery covering the work of the major hard-edge abstractionists: John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Karl Benjamin and others.

    Peter Clothier: One Saturday: Art/L.A. Peter Clothier 2011

  • Opening day for this Pacific Standard Time exhibition, which leads viewers on a dynamic tour from the emergence of an indigenous strain of modernism evident in the hard-edge paintings, assemblage sculpture, and large-scale ceramics of the 1950s, to the subsequent development of iconic Pop images of the city in the 1960s, and the conceptual and material contributions of Light and Space art and process painting that fostered the advanced art of the 1970s.

    Bettina Korek: PLAN ForYourArt: September 29-October 5 Bettina Korek 2011

  • I've heard that there are a number of artists who feel they should have been included, but in general it's a carefully selected and well-defined collection, starting with a wonderful gallery covering the work of the major hard-edge abstractionists: John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Karl Benjamin and others.

    Peter Clothier: One Saturday: Art/L.A. Peter Clothier 2011

  • "Because of high expectations for students, hard-edge policies that focus schools on learning and an array of choices for families, the Sunshine State is leading the nation in rising student achievement," Bush said in a statement about the event, as reported by the Miami Herald.

    Obama to appear with Jeb Bush at Miami education event 2011

  • "It's certainly not that hard-edge, ripping hearts out and slicing people open the way we do in Vampire, but there's other ways to skin a cat."

    The Secret Circle: No Crossovers With The Vampire Diaries 2011

  • Haley, whose been a bit of a surprise in this competition, in that she looks like one of those fresh-faced chicks with the earpieces selling you clothing in The Gap but sings with a hard-edge bluesy voice, goes through to be the final girl in the viewers' Top 10.

    'American Idol' 2011: Lucky 13 [Updated w/ Poll] 2011

  • The hoped-for corrective is "Pacific Standard Time," a Getty-encouraged, Getty-subsidized nearly $10 million in grants collaboration among 60 Southern California institutions resulting in a smorgasbord of everything from handcrafted furniture to hard-edge painting, from guerrilla street performances to sculpture in aerospace materials—all made in California over the past 70 years or so—in shows rolling out over the next six months.

    Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun Peter Plagens 2011

  • Opening day for this Pacific Standard Time exhibition, which leads viewers on a dynamic tour from the emergence of an indigenous strain of modernism evident in the hard-edge paintings, assemblage sculpture, and large-scale ceramics of the 1950s, to the subsequent development of iconic Pop images of the city in the 1960s, and the conceptual and material contributions of Light and Space art and process painting that fostered the advanced art of the 1970s.

    Bettina Korek: PLAN ForYourArt: September 29-October 5 Bettina Korek 2011

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