Sentences with phrase «lurid stories»

: Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995 - 2001, San Francisco 2001 G. Hatje (Ed.)

Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 — 1989 The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (travelling to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles) 2013 Notes on Social Justice Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2012 In The Shadow of Numbers, Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1975 - 2012 Pomona College Museum of Art and Pitzer Art Gallery, Pomona and Claremont 2011 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City 2008 Manifestos Kent Gallery, New York Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin 2007 Greenhouse LA > La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (curated by Robert Storr) Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart 2006 Drawings from the «Explosion» and the «Randomized Text» Series Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City Snake River, collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux and the LA Philharmonic REDCAT, Los Angeles Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz Kapinos Gallery, Berlin 2005 Steve Wolf Gallery, San Francisco 2004 Survey exhibition 1991 - 2004 Triple Candie, New York 2003 Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995 - 2001 Phoebe Conley Art Gallery, Fresno 2002 Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995 - 2001 Luckman Fine Art Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles 2001 Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995 - 2001, Adoline Kent Award Exhibition Walter / McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco 2000 John Weber Gallery, New York Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica 1997 Brigitte March Galerie99, Stuttgart Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica 1996 Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno John Weber Gallery, New York 1995 Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica 1993 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno 1991 Charles Gaines: A Survey Exhibition, 1979 - 1991 Gallery Lavignes - Bastille, Paris (traveled to John Weber Gallery, New York; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica) 1990 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica 1989 John Weber Gallery, New York Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Fresh Visions, Santa Monica 1988 Gallery Lavignes - Bastille, Paris Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart 1987 John Weber Gallery, New York Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1985 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1984 Artist of the Month Exhibition Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1981 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York John Weber Gallery, New York 1980 John Weber Gallery, New York Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston 1979 Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Fresno Art Center, Fresno 1978 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco 1975 University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1972 Cinque Gallery, New York University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1971 Louisville School of Art, Anchorage 1969 State University of New York, College at Oswego, New York

Ed Howard: In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexuality.

Was tainted by a furore over lurid stories about his relationship with a dominatrix.

Other sackings included Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, booed by teachers at their conference, and Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, who faced down lurid stories about his relationship with a dominatrix.

but it's also possible that your comment reflects a perspective that some people have nowadays that unless you read every lurid story on every single blog and look at every lurid picture that everyone posts of murder victims or stillborn babies, you are somehow avoiding reality.

``... maybe you are just someone who likes to say insulting things to strangers on the internet... unless you read every lurid story on every single blog and look at every lurid picture that everyone posts of murder victims or stillborn babies, you are somehow avoiding reality»

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

The one - dimensional characters and lurid story guarantee you will either love it or hate it, but you will not forget it easily.

Not exact matches

He continues to appear in lurid accounts of ritual human and animal killings, sacramental cannibalism and blood - drinking — to say nothing of the Halloween antics of pseudo-religious groups like Anton LaVey's First Church of Satan, once dignified in a Time cover story (June 19, 1972).

He functions as the focal point at which the various currents of the story are concentrated into the lurid fiction of an international Jewish cabal bent on corrupting Christendom and ruling the world.

The paper's first lead story was a classic Victorian sensation, the lurid tale of a female chemist raped and thrown into the Thames.

Over the past 8 months, they've endured vaccine shortages, lurid media stories, and the occasional slaughter of innocent monkeys.

It's rather a simple story and it deals explicitly with Big Themes, but it always seems to defy expectation and never fully descends into lurid pulp.

It's a shame the story takes a lurid turn, because it doesn't need to.

In other hands, this story could have been lurid and silly.

The movie has serious themes, a strong social / political dimension and engaging characters as well as an intricately assembled and finely crafted story that's also pulpily lurid.

However, because the story is told primarily from the point of view of the parents and the cops — the «normals,» so to speak — and because the plotting is so airport - novel silly (a flashback to the cop's abduction could have been plucked from a low - rent Bourne knockoff), any thematic interest winds up buried underneath a mountain of lurid implausibility.

A lurid, bludgeoning, and ultraviolent (i.e., routine) turn - of - the - millennium story about a hapless misfit who joins the crew of a bulging - muscled, tattooed, but savvy dealer bent on seizing control of the Reykjavik drug trade, it's sleazily enjoyable and completely amoral fare, and should make a nice calling card for Axelsson when he makes the rounds in Hollywood.

Compared to the baroque stylization of Hannibal or the lurid, often campy excess of American Horror Story, there's a classical element to the show's pacing and atmosphere.

Captive admirably avoids being heavy - handed, but it still can not entirely shake the lurid nature of its story and the simplistic nature of its message.

For those not as invested, the film version does manage to be one of the better thrillers in recent years, with solid characterizations, a capable cast of actors, and, for those not averse to some of the film's harsher moments of sexual abuse and sadism, enough lurid developments in its story to make you squirm in your seat.

This coming - of - age story centers on two 1970s parochial - school students who express their frustrations by drawing a lurid comic book, but get into trouble when their discontents spill into the real world.

The sensational story served as fodder for lots of lurid newspaper headlines in Great Britain for much of 1977, until the accused jumped bail and escaped back to the States, never to be extradited or to face justice again.

The Legend of Tarzan, at its best, does exactly this — presenting a Sunday matinee movie full of good acting, a simple story, and blended CGI... with a calmness that comes with not having your senses assaulted by lurid colour and noise.

At 60, the great auteur was at the height of his fame and yet was unable to convince Paramount to finance his next film, «Psycho,» a story based on Robert Bloch's lurid novel about a serial killer.

Smith's source novel is a bleak and lurid affair, and on screen that story gives us very few people to actively root for as Hardy and Rapace get caught between dismissive superiors and a poisonous ex-comrade thwarting their investigation to find a cardboard killer.

The story is slight and the cinema psychiatry creaky, but for a premise with such lurid possibilities, Lars and the Real Girl is as easygoing and warmly innocuous as the benign irony of the title.

Those same mummies, skeletons, and cemeteries populate the pages of children's literature year - round, enthralling young readers with lurid photographs and stories of adventurous archaeologists.

Much of the story's content was seen as lurid, inappropriate, offensive, or simply disturbing, depending on who you asked.