tastemaking

English

Etymology

From taste +‎ making.

Adjective

tastemaking (not comparable)

  1. (art) Influential in the determination of current taste.
    • 2007 June 10, Julia Chaplin, “Follow That Motoscafo”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 29 November 2013:
      But her latest act has catapulted her into art’s tastemaking elite.

Noun

tastemaking (uncountable)

  1. The art of setting the current taste.
    • 1987 August 30, Grace Glueck, “Tastemakers”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[2], archived from the original on 28 March 2023:
      In this century the tastemaking process in the art world - not always distinguishable from the marketing process -has grown prodigiously, keeping pace with the growth in audience.
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