Sentences with phrase «from lowbrow»

LBT II is an international art exhibit featuring 22 new works of art from the lowbrow art movement inspired by the Major Arcana, each showing some aspect of the human experience.

This is the third show of Hammons's work presented by Mnuchin (formerly L&M Arts), and though much care has been taken to note that the gallery does not strictly represent the artist, it seems clear that Hammons finds satisfaction in the contrast of having his work — frequently made from lowbrow or dilapidated materials — showcased in the refined and august premises of the Upper East Side townhouse.

It features combines Sugiura's signature brand of absurd action and exquisite drawing, veering constantly from lowbrow cartoon spoof to nuanced meditation on American cultural influence.»

It is also a little incredulous that Hannah, a supposedly intelligent woman, could possibly expect high fidelity from a lowbrow like this guy.

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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.

It sounded lowbrow and disgusting, but instead it was a minor miracle: tart, slightly sweet and salty with umami flavor from the Maggi and funk from the Clamato.

It is a more lowbrow alternative to Uncensored, not shying away from apolitical local news and celebrity stories.

Bulworth is a headstrong dervish of a film, caroming this way and that from high comedy to lowbrow urban potboiler to impassioned tract.

Pretty much the same lowbrow slapstick humor you get from Jackass.

Critic Consensus: Though lowbrow in intent and outcome, Strange Brew effectively mines laughs from its unique premise and likeable stars.

Critics Consensus: Though lowbrow in intent and outcome, Strange Brew effectively mines laughs from its unique premise and likeable stars.

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.»

He begins the essay with an insight that exemplifies the independent - minded analysis that has continued at Reverse Shot: «The face of new South Korean cinema looks a lot like the face of American Independent cinema of the mid-to-late Nineties, given that [Chan - wook] Park's [Oldboy] draws so much of its power from the mixture of high - concept aesthetics and lowbrow generic appropriations that we've been bombarded with since Tarantino.»

This time — working from a script by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey — Hess dives deeply into the ass crack of suburban North Carolina, finding lowbrow caricature courtesy his two wonderfully shameless lead actors, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.

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.

Today's TV Bits runs the gamut from highbrow (a literary adaptation on HBO) to lowbrow (a modeling industry reality show on The CW), with plenty of stuff in between.

One can also blame it on director F. Gary Gray, who went from the heights of «Straight Outta Compton» to this lowbrow drivel.

«The Slammin» Salmon» is far from the comedy troupe's best work (that remains a toss - up between «Super Troopers» and «Beerfest»), but it shows a hint of maturation from a group that usually specializes in more lowbrow humor.

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.

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.

The Interview is exactly what everyone was expecting from Franco, Rogen, and Goldberg: dumb, silly, sophomoric fun filled with lowbrow toilet humor and plethora of dick and fart jokes.

Likeable, well acted and frequently funny comedy but its occasionally sloppy script and an over-reliance on lowbrow humour prevents it from becoming something really special.

In - jokes abound in this ambitious and highly creative lowbrow comedy from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (The Green Hornet, Superbad), who share both writing and directorial credits in what will likely rank highly among their weed - and - raunch loving fans.

DC Cab is a movie that, from all outward appearances, looks like it could be a fun, lowbrow comedy that, with the diverse group of character actors, should deliver some classic moments of hilarity.

At this point in his career, twenty - two years removed from the pop - culture milestone Pulp Fiction (1994), the lowbrow aficionado has dabbled in everything from Kung Fu (Kill Bill, Vol.

The Hot Chick delivers exactly what you would expect from a Happy Madison production: Crude bathroom humor, sexual innuendo, and the basest of sight gags, all of which will tickle the funny bone of the lowest of lowbrow film lovers.

Though not teacher - produced, the one I love most is from typically - lowbrow (but intelligent!)

With a particular style, vision, and palette influenced by comic books, B - movies, advertising, and car culture, the lowbrow aesthetic is both a cultural reality and a romantic encapsulation of how The West is seen from afar.

Baton Rouge Gallery — center for contemporary art is now accepting submissions for Surreal Salon Six, a national juried exhibition of pop - surrealist and lowbrow art from across America.

Working from everyday experience with subjects overlooked or considered delinquent, sordid and lowbrow, he reconnoiters notions and concepts on the outside fringes of South Africa's popular culture.

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.

A lowbrow urban style gallery, featuring work from artists locally and internationally.

Along with a mini-solo by Ray, the gallery is mounting Make Your Own Heroes, a group compendium of lowbrow art from a flock of experts in the field.

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.

This makes sense because he is originally from LA, which is the cradle of lowbrow movement, but at the same time, he is a classically trained creator.