Sentences with phrase «between pop culture»

Japan is well known for its love for strange collaborations between pop culture and products that have absolutely nothing to do with it.

His latest event, Wrestling with Bacon, was a night of curated talks and screenings exploring links between pop culture, homoerotic wrestling and the work of Francis Bacon.

The exhibition will feature Jaffe's recent «Artists» Color» series, which displays paint tubes meant to explore the relationship between pop culture, the artist, and his medium.

Jiha Moon's playfully layered images — now on view at SCAD's Gallery 1600, in an exhibition titled All Kinds of Everything — seem to approach you in waves, radiating out from her weird, arranged collisions between pop culture and tradition [June 10 - July 26, 2013].

Yet they, too, have associations closer to the present — and to the choice between pop culture and purity.

StarTalk Radio bridges the intersection between pop culture and science with clarity, humor, and passion.

Because Pentecostalism inhabits populist forms of life, it lives on the edge between pop culture and folk culture.

Not exact matches

The essays collected in the latest of the pop culture and philosophy series offer insights about how Nietzsche's exploration of the positive power of active forgetting can illuminate the Draper, Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson characters; a comparison between the social structure of Sterling Cooper and an Aristotelian definition of friendship; and a glimpse into the Existential Void of Roger Sterling.

MassMutual did not ask its respondents to choose between the traditional and pop culture definitions of family, nor did it exemplify the differences and ask respondents to classify their views accordingly.

From food to fitness, from pop culture to podcasts, and everything in between.

The Mike Tyson Bitcoin ATM provides consumers the ability to instantaneously purchase bitcoin through their mobile devices and should help to bridge the gap between bitcoin users and mainstream pop culture.

The collaboration between Pantone and A&E networks was a joining of like - minded creatives who wanted to come together to create a distinctive shade in a unique medium in honor of this world renown pop culture icon

From daring fashion trends to pop culture like Taylor Swift's rebirth in Reputation — as always — the strong bond between lifestyle and fashion is evident.

Created as part of a collaboration with Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, they embody an intersection between fine art, pop culture, and high f...

The Pop Art movement beginning in the 1950's set out to obscure boundaries between «high art» and popular culture.

While there are some similarities between the main characters and their dispositions, having to prove themselves and their big, lazy bodies worthy or the fight, the anticipation that Kung Fu Panda will be just another adventure coated with incessant pop culture references are not warranted.

While that earlier effort focused heavily on the flat romance between John and Mila Kunis» Lori (whose absence here is surprisingly explained with solid reasoning and not at all distracting), Ted 2 is more about MacFarlane's trademark blend of pop - culture riffs, nonsequiturs and general juvenile humor that is sure to be gobbled up by his key demographic (young men), but won't convert anyone on the fence.

In an age where inexpensive, high - quality digital cameras have nominally evened the playing field between the big and small screens, Louis CK's show is one of the precious few that has any right being called «cinematic,» unfurling as a series of short films united by their maker's curiosity regarding family, pop culture and the contours of his narrow worldview.

Siskel's widow, Marlene Iglitzen, and TV producer Thea Flaum tell stories behind the fierce competition between the two that vaulted both film critics to pop culture status.

The film's juxtaposition of pop culture and indie culture and the fine line between them makes for humorous irony.

Infinite Scroll is a series about the increasingly blurry lines between the internet, pop culture, and the real world.

Really, all it is is a cross between Antz (one bug in a colony finding his own path) and Shrek (constant pop culture allusions done in rapid tongue - in - cheek fashion), with perhaps a few dozen others sprinkled here and there.

Gnomeo & Juliet desperately straddled that sloppy middle ground between loud, kid - friendly slapstick and winking at adults through instantly dated pop - culture gags and celebrity cameos, to perfectly average results.

Between the Roland Barthes reference, pop culture digs, and its steady parade of players on the stage, it feels as though a single review can hardly do the film justice.

In a year filled with political noise about income inequality and the One Percent lashing out as what they might perceive as government overreach, it's pretty heartening to see a piece of mainstream pop culture embracing imagery that strikes unmistakable parallels between Collins» bruising make believe and the realities that many moviegoers who will be watching this film on opening weekend have to deal with outside the confines of the multiplex.

opens by tipping its hand, going through major works of literature and pop culture to see which ones lend themselves to cloying, forced gnome puns, and then, between groans, building a loose story around it.

Somewhere in - between David Bowie, Lady Gaga, Freddy Mercury and Oscar Wilde, in the transgressive space of pop culture and dressed up as a high school comedy with wit, heart and a dazzling cast, Freak Show is about the violence of conformity and the power of self - determination.»

Cribbed by screenwriter David Nicholls from his own mega-selling novel — the kind of fast - digesting doorstop that's been a ubiquitous presence on London public transport for the past two years — the line is one of those reductively heart - on - sleeve sentiments that Richard Curtis sharpened to a blunt point in his 1990s heyday; when Hathaway drops it, you can hear the film straining for its own place in the pop culture quote bank, somewhere between «Is it still raining?

The goal of Wild Violet, an online literary magazine, is to bridge the gap between academia and pop culture, bringing the arts to the mainstream, to make a place for the arts.

An excellent example of the enriching reciprocal cross-pollination between games and digital pop culture.

Once billed as a crossover between the Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem series, #FE ended up as very much its own beast, leaning more heavily on SMT conventions than Fire Emblem ones and drenching itself in irrepressible J - Pop / modern Tokyo culture lashings.

I love all of the little details about the game too, like flipping over tables to create strategic cover; quick warp points so you can instantaneously teleport around the floors and lessen the amount of backtracking; achievements that actually require dedication and skill to complete; secret areas and side missions that are well thought out and integrated with the game mechanics; gear based around classic gaming and pop culture references (for example a light gun that shoots a Duck Hunt duck with the last bullet of every clip); and since the Supply Drop update, the all - important option to save and quit between floors.

SPJA is a non-profit organization dedicated to popularize and educate the American public about Japanese entertainment and pop culture, as well as provide a forum to facilitate communication between professionals and fans.

William T. Wiley is primarily known for mystical watercolors that whimsically move between references to pop culture, literature, and art history, though he has worked in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and performance.

Danto could all but have anticipated Postmodernism, by finding a break between Abstract Expressionism and chaos, a chaos that values appropriation and pop culture.

Guyton pays tribute to Modernism as pop culture in his collaborations with Kelley Walker, with entire stacks of abstraction, somewhere between studio, storage, and furniture.

The bold, uncompromising nature of Pop art challenged the divide between high and low culture, questioning the influence of commodity and the boundaries of contemporary art making.

The piece references East meets West, combining pop culture with ancient decoration to emphasize the tension between the superfluous and the transcendent.

In his photography, sculpture, installations, and works on paper, Breuning merges humor, kitsch, and pop culture to investigate the relationship between high and low art, often calling into question our assumptions regarding historically designated «masterpieces» by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock.

Like the other Pop artists, Ruscha drew inspiration from blurring the boundary between fine art and popular culture.

Long before Postmodernism complained of an elitist distinction between fine art and pop culture, the Modern was collecting furniture and film along with painting and sculpture.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is organising a collaboration between pop singer - songwriter, actress, fashion muse, front woman for Blondie, and icon of popular culture Deborah Harry and artist Marina Abramović.

Mutu's practice was recognized early for its unique, globally influenced hybrid aesthetic that merged biology, pop culture, science fiction, religion, and philosophy, where Mutu explored the relationship between identity, the body, and nature.

Dream Team to perform at MOCA Gala In November The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is organising a collaboration between pop singer - songwriter, actress, fashion muse, front woman for Blondie, and icon of popular culture Deborah Harry and artist Marina Abramović.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the gray in between.

Finding inspiration in pop culture, advertising and punk influences, Noble & Webster have challenged the conventional career path of the artist, utilizing different media — including electric lights and garbage - to tease out new relations between spectacle, conceptual gravity, and pure entertainment.

Indeed, the relationship between popular culture and Pop Art is explored from all angles, discussing its interpretation as critique or celebration of consumerism, mass production and contemporary graphic art; whether Pop is simply another manifestation of popular culture or subversive criticism of it.

During a tour of the exhibition, Zabel spoke of how pop art was interested in «the blurring of the boundaries between high art and popular culture but also between art and life, breaking down those boundaries.»

Moving between Paris, New York, and Los Angeles over ensuing years, Raysse created works that subtly critiqued consumer culture through their incorporation of media imagery and store - bought products, in a practice many historians cite as a precursor to American Pop.

And then, there was everything else in between: Pop Art, which employed aspects of mass culture (unlike Abstract Expressionism), Fluxus, as a Dada - derived anti-art nihilist movement, Art Brut or Outsider Art if you want, new realism in France, and all the other forms of realism, which emerged in Great Britain, Socialist Realism in the Russian Soviet Republic, etc..