Out of historical respect and postmodern irony, gallery owners are ordering amused workers to preserve the peeling Mao slogans as they resurface the concrete walls.

And, thankfully, the hint of postmodern irony erodes the prevailing piety of his work.

Here, he gives us neo-classicism straight, without even a whiff of postmodern irony.

There is a certain postmodern irony to Leibowitz's rooms.

There is an element of postmodern irony to these collaborations that seems a bit out of character for Mr. Miyake.

The secret to the success of these magazines, in other words, is that old-fashioned leering is covered with a patina of postmodern irony.

Presumably, though, they're not all middle class graduates with a keen sense of postmodern irony.

But at the same time he has built so much postmodern irony into his film that it's hard to know where satire stops and sincerity begins.

However, a common positive theme of current attempts to define post-postmodernism is that faith, trust, dialogue, performance and sincerity can work to transcend postmodern irony.

In the opposite gallery, clarity and postmodern irony mingle with military precision.