Sentences with phrase «contemporary pop music»

You will find reviews on new singles, albums and concerts and interviews with a broad range of artists in contemporary pop music.

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned it.

You will find reviews on new singles, albums and concerts and interviews with a broad range of artists in contemporary pop music.

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Ten interactive exhibits and galleries at MoPOP, Seattle's Museum of Popular Culture (formerly the EMP) offer visitors a far - ranging tour of music history, contemporary pop culture, science fiction, fantasy and a variety of offbeat trends.

Some like contemporary Christian pop music.

Pop music critic Simon Reynolds, in his book Retromania, and style - writer Kurt Andersen, in his «You Say You Want a Devolution» essay, have their finger upon a certain pattern in our contemporary cultural scenes of recyle - ment, repetition, and lack of forward motion.

Other contemporary Christian musicians, as the music industry designates them, have crossed over to mainstream pop with some success.

Introduced by her own mother, the 35 - year - old pop singer, who recently announced that she is expecting twins, sang two slower cuts from last year's album «Lemonade,» and took home awards for best urban contemporary album and best music video.

From unique pop - up boutiques to classical music, from blue crabs to Berger cookies, from the Inner Harbor to the urban edges, Baltimore is a heady blend of traditional and contemporary cultures.

Despite writing the book and screenplay of «Fast Times At Ridgemont High» (1982), the film that established the parameters of»80s teen movies; despite establishing or redefining a host of contemporary film stars; despite major box office success, despite an Oscar, despite his role as a pop music shaman — there's little written about Crowe's work as a writer and director.

The conceit for this musical, of course, is that all the songs are contemporary pop songs: The theme from The Sound Of Music, Queen's The Show Must Go On, The Police's Roxanne, and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

At least the exhaustive list of prerecorded music sampled is a touch more diverse and less cool - now pop than most of its romcom contemporaries.

Dialing up Arcade Fire, Of Monsters and Men, and The Lumineers (and practically every other contemporary band you can think of that writes rousing, lighter - raising pop hymns), the two - thirds mark of the movie is essentially defined by sequences serving as launch pads for yet another life affirming music moment (the score by Theodore Shapiro also employs the help of autumnal indie pop troubadour Jose Gonzalez to mildly better effect).

In place of conventional brassy period movie - music cues, there's beatific sample - laden electronica and contemporary Afro - Pop.

This thematically vital and stylistically sententious use of music unveils Wong's pop sensibilities, similar to his Western contemporaries like Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino whose musical savvy adds great heft and effect to their distinctive work.

The repetitive use of music and montages in Wagner are tempered by a fine cast, exquisite use of palatial locations, and many fascinating nuances that make Richard Wagner, as a nineteenth century pop star, quite contemporary.

Vanilla Sky boasts the desirable qualities of a Cameron Crowe movie: three - dimensional human characters, compassion, contemporary relevance, and a great soundtrack utilizing a wide array of pop / rock music.

The music is lathered in no - name contemporary pop, but the dialogue stays crisp and audible alongside it.

Thus the stage is set for some soft but no less entertaining (and very timely) satire on commercialism in contemporary society, particularly in the burgeoning teen pop music market (which is further raked over the coals by a spot - on, if brief, opening parody of boy bands).

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The three major headliners for NOS Primavera Sound 2018 explain, decisively, the contemporary music of today: alongside Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, who finally present the cathartic and now classic Skeleton Tree on stage, will be A$ AP Rocky, the new worldwide king of hip hop, and this century's rising pop music star, Lorde, critically acclaimed with her second album, Melodrama.

Samba de Amigo, for example, used contemporary tracks from the likes of German pop group Bellini, Chumbawamba, and Santana, as well as classic music from the 50s and 60s including tracks from the Gipsy Kings, Perez Prado, and Quincy Jones.

2015 The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA SAIC 150th Anniversary Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL Piece by Piece, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de La Habana, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY Bring in the Reality, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY Pilgrimage Dun Huang — First International City Sculpture Exhibition, Architectural Society of China, Dun Huang, China POP Stars!

In the world of diamond encrusted skulls and unmade beds that is contemporary art, few people are as influenced by pop music as Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller — the artist who managed to combine acid house and brass bands.

Bracewell's interest in the relation of modern and contemporary visual art to the development of popular culture, pop music and literature is pursued in the accompanying exhibition.

Eric White's paintings reference 20th century film, music and pop culture backed by consummate draftsmanship and painterly finesse to subvert and recode the dominant narratives of contemporary society.

Recent group exhibitions include Reverb: Music as Both Inspiration & Content in Contemporary Art, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California; The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Rock - Paper - Scissors, Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria; and Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.

Agent X is an experimental multimedia artist, working at the forefront of contemporary art with a unique aesthetic that juxtaposes pop culture, fashion, music, politics and race.

Modern Painters Daily March 14, 2012 Tomorrow: «Occult Contemporary» in Chelsea By Modern Painters «Occult Contemporary,» the title of Detroit - based artist Hernan Bas's exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, is a spin on «adult contemporary,» the term used to describe lighContemporary» in Chelsea By Modern Painters «Occult Contemporary,» the title of Detroit - based artist Hernan Bas's exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, is a spin on «adult contemporary,» the term used to describe lighContemporary,» the title of Detroit - based artist Hernan Bas's exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, is a spin on «adult contemporary,» the term used to describe lighcontemporary,» the term used to describe light pop music.

In it, we get a broad stroke of contemporary art — pop art, conceptual art, postmodernism — all designed to intrigue music lovers as well as entice buyers to pick up the latest release by their favorite band.

An American living in France, Cameron Jamie uses music, photography, drawing, film, and video to investigate the quirky, ritualistic activities that are part of contemporary pop culture (wrestling and craftslike mask - making being among his current interests).

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His work takes inspiration from song lyrics and the pop culture that surrounds contemporary music and art rock.

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In the exhibition we see the subversive creativity and the physical, ironic language used in Hail reflected in the work of contemporaries of Clark and Atlas's day, as well as among modern - day artists active in visual art and dance, music and pop culture, with their rebellious expressions.

Jen Liu (USA, 1976) examines the contemporary cultural and political frontier through its collision with old and new pop models - music, icons, pop history, computer and print graphics.

A true contemporary master of pop art with a net worth of well over $ 300 million, Koons has worked with Lady Gaga on the visual identity and music videos of her albums.

Most recently, he has merged his interest in art and art criticism into «visual essays» that resemble movie or pop music posters and comment on a variety of issues, including economics, aesthetics, and race in the contemporary art world.

An eclectic range of musicians and contemporary artists with common interests in the possibilities of pop music culture

Phil's 1st Art Show Pirate: Contemporary Art, 7130 West 16th Avenue, Lakewood May 11 through May 27 Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 6 to 10 p.m. Phil's 1st Art Show, popping up in Pirate's informal community corner, is a tribute not to that Phil (Bender, of course), but to the late Phil «Phil the Fan» Hamon III, a longtime fixture in the local music scene, whose main claim to fame was his pure ardor for the stuff, the memorabilia and the immediacy of rock music and the people who make it.

They channel and challenge a history of performance that includes forms as varied as minstrelsy and contemporary pop, experimental music and improvisational dance.

In economics, via the growth of the world economy in general and the American economy in particular; in science, via the spread of television; in contemporary music, (which itself became known as «Pop») through the miniaturization of radio, increased record production, the appearance of cult groups like The Beatles, and the phenomenon of pychedelia; and lastly through an expanding art market.

The application proposes that funding awarded by the Derek Williams Trust (DWT) Purchase Prize could be combined with the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award to commission a new, ambitious performance and film installation which will involve a number of elements including the museum itself, the local music scene from opera to pop and a 1774 chamber - organ in the National Museum Cardiff which is still regularly used for organ recitals.

His work has also been included in the group exhibitions Abstract Now and Then, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley (2011); The Artist's Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2010); and Rock - Paper Scissors, Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2009).

Selected Events Monomania Festival, Cambridge Junction and Aid & Abet 2014 Sluice Art Fair, London 2013 The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester 2013 Process Form Image — Experimental Film 2013 Noise Improve and Sound 2013 INIVA, pop up art fair, London 2012 Vane in the Bibliotheque 2012 Constructive Interference (music / performance event) 2012 Psychic Power of Plants (workshop) 2012 Tower — David Ryan (film screening and performance) 2012 Transition Shop in the Bibliotheque 2012 Airtime — AIR networking event 2012 Refraction and Reflection — salon 2012 Sluice Art Fair, London 2011 exhaustion and exuberance, Eastside Projects Birmingham 2011

The Berlin Senate's cultural affairs department estimates that around 5,000 artists, 1,200 writers, 1,500 bands (pop, rock, and world music), 500 jazz musicians, 103 professional orchestras and music ensembles, 1,500 choirs, 300 theater groups, and 1,000 dancers and / or choreographers of contemporary dance live and work in Berlin.

The a cappella music group from Harvard University will perform contemporary pop hits as well as jazz, country, and indie / rock alternative songs.

Akin to the phenomenon of «turbo - folk,» a contemporary style of music combining Serbian folk music with modern pop, Hollywood stars — Johnny Depp, Rocky Balboa, Jackie Chan — have become the subjects of municipal public art.

Group exhibitions include See This Sound, Lentos Museum, Linz (2009); Crossing, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2008); The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art, South London Gallery, London (2007); and Ocho Y Medio, Quito and Maac Cine, Ecuador, curated by Tate Modern (2007).

For a school project Tomas Nilssen re-interpreted this fairy tale to show it, wordlessly, as it might be done with contemporary «info graphics,» and set against the background music of Slagsmålsklubben, a Swedish electro - pop group, and all done neatly in under three minutes.