high-culture

Things only get worse when he goes for high-culture references, as in his interviews with Gibney, in which he compares himself to Icarus.

Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to. Laura Kipnis 2010

The photos may strike some as a high-culture version of "Where's Waldo?"

The Art World's 'Where's Waldo?' 2011

Now that high-culture organizations are finding it harder to get the word out about their activities through the mainstream media, the smartest ones are following Mr. Johnson's lead and setting up alternative outlets of their own.

The Cleveland Orchestra Invites 'Criticism' in From the Cold Terry Teachout 2011

The high-culture/low-culture vibe of San Francisco is reflected in the white-tablecloth sushi restaurants that make neighbors with funky burrito bars, all packed, flowing into the streets.

Keeping Reality at Bay 2010

Criticism of public television's paucity of high-culture fare is disingenuous without any corresponding analysis of the tiny amount of federal, state and private funding for the institution and the policy constraints put on it.

PBS Does Well, Given Its Resources and Constraints 2011

Several readers noted the defensiveness of high-culture aficionados in cultural debates, and suggested they can be the most reductive of all.

Readers' reviews: The Tree of Life and reductionism 2011

As a result, it was possible well into the '70s for a high-culture artist to become known to the public at large.

Heard of Any Great Playwrights Lately? Terry Teachout 2010

The days when the national media turned high-culture figures into mainstream stars are long past.

Heard of Any Great Playwrights Lately? Terry Teachout 2010

That's the real test of fame, and it is no longer accessible to high-culture artists.

Heard of Any Great Playwrights Lately? Terry Teachout 2010

I'm guessing that you mean 'everyone' to refer to 'everyone in SF/F', in which case the best answer to this question is a general one: I love all that high-culture experimental Modernist and postmodernist literature that so many truefans take pride in denigrating -- genuinely love, I mean; not just 'think it makes me look clever to namedrop' or 'grudgingly admire'.

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010