In nature, flowers serve in reproduction, but for humans, scented blooms are ripe with meaning and symbolism.
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Pale green gowns with ruffled hems, long sleeves, and empire waists haunt the gallery as if enlivened by an invisible force.
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For Constant, art-making is a statement of resistance within the context of Haiti's extreme political and economic instability.
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Twenty artists explore a range of approaches to color photography, from kitschy portraits to uncanny tableaux.
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The London-based artist is fascinated by blue-and-white porcelain and the way certain pieces inspire familiarity.
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The artist's array of objects evoke the reality of family structures at a time when materialism, distorted expectations, and self-loathing created a perfect storm.
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The Lithuanian artist taps into diametric material characteristics in her continuing examination of war.
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In 'Food Treasure,' Chunbo Zhang cooks up delicate paintings that question the divide between two cultures.
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Leaves, fish, herons, crocodiles, crustaceans, and more comprise a wide array of embossed educational aids.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 29, 2025 is:
facetious \fuh-SEE-shuss\ adjective
Facetious is used to describe something, such as a remark or behavior, that is meant to be humorous or funny but is sometimes instead annoying, silly, or improper. It can also be used to describe someone who is joking, often implying that they are doing so inappropriately.
// The emcee delivered several facetious quips throughout the night that the audience found in poor taste.
// I was just being facetious—I didn't mean it seriously.
"In September, 1818, Byron told Moore of a new undertaking: 'It is called "Don Juan," and is meant to be a little quietly facetious upon every thing. ... I shall try the experiment, anonymously, and if it don't take it will be discontinued.' Safe to say that he continued, taking advantage of that freedom to cram into the poem pretty much anything that came to mind: shipwreck, cannibalism, lobster, cross-dressing, violent slurs upon the Duke of Wellington." — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Did you know?
As many puzzle fans know, facetious is one of a small group of English words that not only use all five vowels once, but use them in alphabetical order. Other members of this exclusive club include abstemious (and abstemiously), and arsenious. (There is also an odd class of words which contain each vowel, used once, in reverse order: Pulmonifera, Muscoidea, and subcontinental.) Facetious comes from the Middle French adjective facetieux, which traces to the Latin word facētia, meaning "cleverness or wit." In English, it is used to describe speech or behavior that is intended to be playfully cheeky.