An enormous crystal sphincter housing an array of leftovers from Vegas transfers of Broadway shows was the backdrop for the 90th Academy Awards ceremony — a garish and distracting monstrosity that was entirely out of sync with the often urgent, focused, political tone of the show. (vanityfair.com)
While the artist's artisanal impulses align her labor with Arte Povera's cultivation of raw materials (albeit omitting the overtly political tone taken by the postwar Italian movement), her wall - mounted objects» exacting geometric delineations echo Minimalism's efforts to cut hrough three - dimensional space (as demonstrated in work by Fred Sandback and Richard Serra, among others). (caseykaplangallery.com)
RKO studios had another Director come in to reshoot the more political tones that Ford wanted, causing him to never make another film with the studio again. (rottentomatoes.com)