APOTHEOSIS is the conferring, through official, ritual, or iconographic means, of the status of a god upon a mortal person. The Greek verb apotheoun appears first in the writings of the historian Polybius, which date from the second century BCE. The...

Apotheosis (from Greek ἀποθεόω "to deify"), deification or divinization is the glorification of an individual to a divine...

Experiencing Dia:Beacon's Ashram of the Abstract APOTHEOSIS NOW DIA: BEACON 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York Michael Kimmelman stirred up a hornet's nest recently when he called the 24 artists whose work is enshrined at Dia:Beacon "The Greatest Generation"...

"Marxism is a religion," wrote the economist Joseph Schumpeter (1942, 5), who used the equation to explain the political ideology's seductive appeal. Schumpeter's insight and argument apply equally well to the ideology of democratic fundamentalism that is manifest in U.S. foreign policy. "To...

What a double-edged sword 69 Love Songs has become for the Magnetic Fields. Perhaps the apotheosis of Stephin Merritt's clever talents, it is a sublime piece of novelty that manages to transcend its gimmickry. Yet since that flurry of content, the band has only managed...

Michael Kirban, a young beverage entrepreneur with affable eyes and the round head of a coconut, sat in the cool shade of a conference room on a recent Tuesday, clutching a box of juice. The box was Carnaval-colored, splattered with a private beach’s worth of...