Sentences with phrase «as lowbrow»

In one gallery, you can mingle around what he calls «People Feeders,» stacks of tires that serve as lowbrow snack bowls for Oreo's, (perfectly fresh on both visits I made to the gallery, btw), pretzels, gumballs, and black and white M & M's.

Judged on its own, without Criterion's stamp of approval, the cult that's gathered around Equinox since its 1967 bow as The Equinox would be seen as lowbrow Philistines, but slot this baby in as # 338 in a collection of films that, for the most part, wouldn't trip many controversy meters in regards to the «masterpiece» criteria and suddenly an entire school of film criticism — the school that actually has enough faith in film to describe sublimity outside of the irreproachable canon, and enough faith in itself to remark upon it when it's uncovered — is given a shot in the arm.

And this is a shame, because it's a highly enjoyable movie in a way that certainly isn't as lowbrow as my last sentence would seem to imply.

Not exact matches

to «The Church as Mission,» they have come very close to gagging the lowbrows altogether from ever saying anything to anybody about Jesus Christ unless it is passive, pious, and programmed in advance.

Dench totally nails her role as the provincial, inexperienced Philomena, who annoys the skeptical Martin with her old - fashioned sensibilities and penchant for lowbrow romance novels.

Despite some obvious flaws, «Step Brothers» remains a hugely enjoyable, well - constructed slice of lowbrow Saturday night entertainment, leaving Ferrell's position as the reigning king of US comedy secure for a while longer.

Lumpy lowbrow humor and characters as thin as a Monopoly board mar «Game Night», a comedy with an irresistible premise, but that only.

The fact that these two brothers get a kick out of excessively lowbrow toilet humor — and the fact that their massive audiences also enjoy this sort of sub-sophomoric humor, in droves no less — is taken as a signifier that the country is on some sort of massive mental downturn, with projected results of deflated math scores and wanton pie - throwing in the streets.

Released the same year as Robert Altman's «Nashville,» «Smile» takes a similar satirical look at lowbrow American culture.

As far as I'm concerned, the Farrelly Brothers have created some of the wittiest, funniest lowbrow gross - out comedies of the 1990As far as I'm concerned, the Farrelly Brothers have created some of the wittiest, funniest lowbrow gross - out comedies of the 1990as I'm concerned, the Farrelly Brothers have created some of the wittiest, funniest lowbrow gross - out comedies of the 1990s.

Unfortunately, this low - lowbrow comedy, which tries to pass itself off as a «Friday» crossed with «Legally Blonde,» also does nothing to distinguish itself from recent urban flops «The Wash» and «Pootie Tang.»

If this schizophrenic mishmash were only guilty of being painfully unfunny, then I could have dismissed it as just another lowbrow farce.

Be prepared for lowbrow humor and nonstop drug references, as Up in Smoke plays everything to the hilt in questionable taste.

There aren't any fart jokes but there might as well be; somehow the humor is even more lowbrow than in the original, begging for the relative smarts of 2006's «Beerfest.»

And, therefore, submitted for your approval is «Scary Movie 4,» which treads approximately the same lowbrow comedy water as its predecessors.

To give Grimsby credit, for a lowbrow comedy whose jokes are overwhelmingly rooted in gay panic and treating the bodies of larger women as walking sight gags, it's surprisingly good - natured, even sweet at times.

Stan and his Marvel Cinematic Universe co-stars, who include such awards season heavyweights as Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, and Michael Douglas, are using sheer talent to elevate the ostensibly lowbrow genre.

Its success comes from the result of committing to an idea with research and knowledge rather than imbuing it with nonstop lowbrow humor as some may have expected.

Willard is a dysfunctional marriage between the highbrow and the lowbrow — a timid picture afraid to appear as though it's just a revenge fantasy carried off by rats (something done better in Argento's Inferno, anyway) and afraid, too, to appear as though it's not interested in the rats at all.

Shane Black was once the highly paid screenwriter of such lowbrow, high - concept, energetic, pulpy action films as Lethal Weapon (1987), The Last Boy Scout (1991) and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996).

I don't necessarily have a problem with lowbrow humor, as I enjoyed a similarly scatological entry with funny accents with Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat.

As far as unchallenging and mindless popcorn stimuli go, xXx clearly hits its lowbrow target dead centeAs far as unchallenging and mindless popcorn stimuli go, xXx clearly hits its lowbrow target dead centeas unchallenging and mindless popcorn stimuli go, xXx clearly hits its lowbrow target dead center.

«Loglines such as these recall the mostly lowbrow films of wildly varying quality which played...

I did like Sam (as the audience surrogate) lamenting the NEW YORK TIMES art critic — the standard lowbrow salvo about frustration and all that — moments before his noble spirit is separated from his hyper - toned bod.

Which brings us to Rampage, a sweaty, lunkish slab of lowbrow escapism starring the former wrestler Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson as a primatologist fending off an attack of giant, genetically mutated beasts with the help of a super-sized gorilla.

Coming from television comedy («In Living Color» and his self - titled WB sitcom), Foxx was then being relegated to such lowbrow big screen fare as Booty Call and The Players Club.

Although «Unsane» might require an unusual taste for both high and lowbrow cinema, and its approach may strike celluloid purists as anathema (fear not, Chris Nolan, there's still a place for actual film in the hearts of most movie lovers), Soderbergh's 27th film strikes as an immediate cult hit — the kind whose small budget will ensure success ad infinitum.

Older viewers may find it a more graphic version of the lowbrow flicks they used to see as the second feature at drive - ins.

Though it doesn't rake in as many awards as the former, Mike Judge's absurdist comedy series is a clever blend of lowbrow and highbrow humor that doesn't hold back in its skewering of the tech world.

But with lowbrow hack Paul W.S. Anderson (then simply Paul Anderson) at the helm, Event Horizon washes out as just another assembly - line jump - scare factory.

Its spirit and level of humor is sure to please fans of lowbrow comedies such as American Pie, and needs the «rowdy bunch» factor (seeing the film with boisterous friends) in order to be properly appreciated.

At its best (Funny People, maybe), this approach imbues lowbrow humor with genuine pathos; at its worst, as with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart's feature - length (and Apatow - free) 2015 prison - rape joke Get Hard, it veers into plain old homophobia.

But Lollipop Chainsaw delivers on the same level as Scooby Doo and No More Heroes: lowbrow jokes, crass pandering, and a blithe disregard for meaningful characters or gameplay.

The game contains what Skaldic Games describes as «lots of fully voiced lowbrow innuendos» which includes a transgender character shouting «you want to chop [off] my wiener?»

According to Sarah Archino, another CAA panelist and an art - history graduate student at the City University of New York Graduate Center, «In order for a prank to really function as art, you have to have the possibility of a lowbrow aspect in art, and if that really existed before the 20th century, it's been obscured by history.»

The works in exhibition seek to exist between genres of figurative or abstract, highbrow or lowbrow, sentimental and academic, and all the other limiting binaries of interpretation to be both volatile and conservative, soulful and austere, containing elements that appeal to both sides in these paintings, or as the artist puts it, «ambassadors between the two mindsets.»

As a result, her images are raw, rejecting conventional beauty norms, whilst still maintaining a tween - Tumblr aesthetic and employing kitsch elements and lowbrow internet culture.

While Mike Kelley is best known for his content - heavy installations and lowbrow aesthetic, for this exhibition he seemingly returned to his roots as an abstract painter.

Foregrounding their aesthetic contributions as well as subversions, ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND brings the decidedly lowbrow and defiant early work of some of California's current influential and innovative artists to New York and the tri-state area.

His art has a lowbrow / highbrow appeal and hence can also be seen not only in galleries around the world such as The Andy Warhol Museum but is also instantly recognizable in magazines, products (such as the Royal Canadian Mint Coins), designer toys and fashion.

Taking a cue from Marcel Duchamp's infamous «readymades,» as well as Kurt Schwitters's boxed Dada collage constructions, Cornell's valise dossiers, films, collages, and seminal glass - fronted shadow boxes fluidly mix references from highbrow and lowbrow sources to create potent, poetic vignettes with a motley assemblage of found and everyday objects.

Arcangel's work has long dealt with the status conferred upon differing cultural ephemera: the privilege endowed so - called Fine Art as compared to the visual vernacular of «lowbrow» pop culture.

Johannes Wohnseifer's video works, photographs, sculptures, and installations contain references to the history of art and design — analyzing our everyday life as defined by the media, in which the hierarchies between highbrow and lowbrow have become invalid.

Lowbrow began in the early 1980s as an art movement that embraced the attitudes and iconography of distinctly American subcultures, embracing demolition derbies and surfing...

Images like these were very influential in psychedelic art, which curator Andrew Blauvelt asserts is an art form warranting scholarship, despite its lowbrow status as the purview of commercial artists, designers, and engineers more often than fine artists.

In Warholian fashion, Johnson often imbues his work with queer desire and dry melancholy as he mines lowbrow registers of American culture, resituating material drawn from such sources as People magazine, pulp fiction, celebrity auto - biographies, Hollywood histories, and advertisements.

There are obvious dichotomies here between lowbrow pop culture and handmade craft, as well as those between gender and labor.

2016 - May 4 - May 8 - Stroke Art Fair, Munich, Germany with Schwalbe & Schwalbe Artfair 2016 - January 9 - February 15 - Penumbra Studio, Loures, Portugal «8x8» group show 2016 - January 29 - January 31 - Golden State Tattoo Expo, California «the draw16» Groupshow curated by MICHAEL HUSSAR 2016 - February 13 - March 13 - Penumbra Studio, Loures, Portugal «The Dark One» group show 2016 - March 5 - March 26 - Alexi Era Gallery, Mascoutah, IL «Empathic» group show 2016 - March 19 - Gristle Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY «Dystopian Forest» group show 2016 - April 2 - May 29 Art at the Hall, Aberdeen Scotland «Enchanted» group show 2016 - April 2 - April 20 Alexi Era Gallery, Mascoutah, IL «Gypsy» group show 2016 - April 16 - May 13 Penumbra Studio, Loures, Portugal «Perrault's fairy tales» Bad Apple Artist Collective group show 2016 - May Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA «For the First Time group show 2016 - June 3 - Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA «As Above, so Below» group show 2016 - June 4 - June 25 Avantgarde Tattoo and Art Gallery, Milano, Italy «PostcArt Show» group show 2016 - June 11 - Cactus Gallery, LA «Symphony of Wings» group show 2016 - June 11 - Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco «Annual Portrait Exhibition» group show 2016 - July 8 - Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA «Invisible Threads» group show 2016 - August 5 - Alexi Era Gallery, Eugene OR «Lowbrow Tarot Project II» group show 2016 - August 6 - Haven Gallery, Northport, NY «The Tempest» group show 2016 - August 13 - September 24 - Ars Memoria Gallery, Chicago, IL «RED» group show 2016 - August 13 - September 1 - Cactus Gallery, LA «Water» Groupshow 2016 - August 27/28 - Future Gallery, Lake Orion, MI «Pocked Size Paintings # 3» group show 2016 - October 29 - November 17 - Penumbra Studio, Loures, Portugal «All Hallows Eve» group show 2016 - October - Art at the Hall, Aberdeen Scotland «El Gato» group show 2016 - October - Haven Gallery, Northport, NY «Mission Blue» group show curated by Christina Ridgeway 2016 - December 3 - Future Gallery, Lake Orion, MI «Winter Gallery # 4» group show 2016 - December 10 - Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco «Wanderlust 4» group show

Caia Koopman has emerged as one of lowbrow's preeminent female artists.

Critic Mark Brown once referred to Deller as a «pied piper of popular culture» — an apt reference to Deller's extensive use of music and sound, his deliberately lowbrow approach, and his performance pieces that often require participation of the viewer.