Sentences with phrase «cultural commentary»

Among them will be a lot of cultural commentary mostly about books, movies, and art I love or hate, about war and immigration, prejudice, nature, and travel.

It publishes short crime stories, book reviews, and literary / cultural commentary with feminist sensibility.

There is also a moment of fantastic cultural commentary in the season two premiere.

Her characters and installations aren't here for simple cultural commentary.

For the US has witnessed an impressive range of cultural commentaries on the epidemic, exploring the conflicts and evasions that determine so much social policy, from safer sex campaigns to television soap operas.

Our direct intent is to promote cultural commentary with ideas and opinions vividly expressed to engross readers.

Niebuhr's account of sin and his understanding of theology as cultural commentary provided a compelling «sociology» for a theology done in a new idiom.

Films that combine this with themes that make you think, provide cultural commentary and don't insult your intelligence with the plot.

Showcasing works from the 1960s through 2013, the exhibition surveys political satire and cultural commentary through art movements ranging from capitalist realism to contemporary pop art.

In 2001, I wrote my first ever piece of Christian cultural commentary for the Premier Christian Radio website.

[1] Critics have also questioned whether Mr.'s work reflects a commentary on otaku culture, or glimpses into a private fantasy world, [2] though Mr. has said his art is about expressing his personal fantasies, and not about cultural commentary.

It will be interesting to see if useful cultural commentary emerges from the laughter over time, or if Outsourced will simply become Community: Mumbai.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, David Cronenberg should be feeling pretty chuffed with son Brandon's big - screen debut, a petri dish of high - concept perversity and cultural commentary teeming with lo - fi ickiness.

But what it lacks in consistency of tone and laugh - out - loud one - liners it makes up for in sharp writing, acute cultural commentary, gleeful weirdness, and sheer creative balls.

It's one of the all - time great feel good films, but its sly cultural commentary is what makes it the masterpiece that it is.

In particular, the slight cultural commentaries of «Screwed» can't save it from feeling like little more than a knockoff Madonna song circa the mid-1980s (both musically and subject-wise).

We champion projects by America Ferrara and Eva Longoria, we cheer on Iñárritu and Chivo's Hollywood successes, we bemoan tone - deaf cultural commentary on SNL, and feel inspired when critically acclaimed films from Colombia, Venezuela, and Chile take European festivals by storm.

«Mixing an activist's passion with sophisticated cultural commentary, Klein delivers some elegant formulations: «Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.»

Indeed, at first glance, you might think these mashups are simply novel and entertaining, but looking closer you can absorb deeper cultural commentaries.

While incorporating similar themes, her Pop Art has less in common with the ideals and politics of Judy Chicago or Miriam Schapiro, and is not necessarily related to the more blatant cultural commentaries of Warhol or Lichtenstein.

Representing several new approaches emerging from the wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century, these artists combine various elements such as conceptual art, post-painterly abstraction, reductive strategies, mysticism and cultural commentary -LSB-...]

Anne Pasternak, Brooklyn Museum's new director; Mia Locks and Christopher Y. Lew, named curators of the 2017 Whitney Biennial; Thomas J. Lax's contribution as the youngest curator of «Greater New York» at P.S. 1 (the others were Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey and Ms. Locks; through March 7); savvy art writing by Johanna Fateman and Mostafa Heddaya and Felix Bernstein's blistering cultural commentary.

Driven by the conceptual and formal possibilities of the tension between light and dark, and good and evil, Paul Chan is best known for his projected animations that use shadows and silhouettes to engage cultural commentary and contemporary modes of communication.

Barbara Kruger hit her stride with the same format, in captioned images that, with great economy of means, created bruising cultural commentaries.

Clement Greenberg graduated in literature from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1930, taught himself Latin and German, began to work as a United States customs clerk (1937) and then to publish political and cultural commentary in Partisan Review and The Nation.

It is a brand and a mentality, a curatorial collection of exclusive products, a congenial pool of designers, a distributed statement about design as cultural commentary, a medium, working with cutting edge designers and enlightened clients.»

The exhibition surveys political satire and cultural commentary through art movements ranging from capitalist realism to contemporary pop art, from the 1960s to the present.

Her intertwining of classical genres with cutting edge technologies, such as the combination of live drawing with video environments, offer both lyrical readings and cultural commentary on today's world.

Curated by Fairfax Dorn, this group exhibition surveys political satire and cultural commentary since the 1960s through art movements from capitalist realism and contemporary pop.

Our mission at Pearls & Vodka is to provide cultural commentary to the events happening in the world around us.

Observers suggest Colson will likely be best remembered for his prison ministry, behind - the - scenes political involvement, work on evangelical and Catholic dialogue, and his cultural commentary.

Political and cultural commentary is probably best left to people with a better understanding than I, but I think it is obvious that the world is in a state of upheaval.

Even the release and all of the hype surrounding it seemed like it's own sort of cultural commentary:

Nancy offers breastfeeding updates and cultural commentary on her blog.

Complete with cultural commentary, practical preparation guidance (including recipes), and a demonstration for just - right sauerkraut — and featuring an extended interview with Katz — this video is perfect for food - lovers of any kind.

Also, I think District 9 is classic science - fiction in the sense that it takes a futuristic scenario (or in this case an alternative present scenario) to make contemporary political and cultural commentary.

A grisly critique of representations of violence, the original version shot a hole right through the fourth wall, but Haneke's echo — which re-uses the same locations and stresses its own pointlessness at every turn — transforms his cultural commentary into an endless hall of mirrors, completing the project by repeating it.

Where Thank You for Smoking and especially Juno and Up in the Air broadly connected with audiences and critics, Men, Women & Children is being lambasted as a tone - deaf piece of cultural commentary, hysterically decrying addictions to screens and social networking as an existential crisis for middle - class America.

When Hollywood treats formal ambition and dramatic complexity as specialty - division afterthoughts, when foreign releases are ghettoized in a handful of big cities, when readers are defined by their lowest - common - denominator indifference — that's a situation where dozens of professional critics expend their collective intelligence finding new ways to snark about Brett Ratner's hackwork or Michael Bay's inhumanity (worthy causes both, but hardly the pinnacle of cultural commentary).

Chism: Our teachers came up with the idea of studying visual artist Keith Haring, who expresses movement and cultural commentary in his artwork.

The Atlantic offers a feature while The New Yorker and Wired offer a mix of cultural commentary and review.