1.   Call them contemporary applied arts.

2.   Mention the word pantry to Deborah Shinn, the assistant curator of applied arts at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and she immediately sighs.

3.   The applied arts are vibrantly alive here, and not surprisingly many of their leading practitioners are strongly influenced by their native land.

4.   The assumption that the fine arts were inherently superior to the applied arts was no longer incontestable.