In 2015, von Bismarck
made his biggest splash yet, getting picked up by Marlborough Chelsea for a May solo show and setting himself up on a concrete flying saucer at the entrance of Art Basel in Basel's Unlimited section.
In fact, it's
making its biggest splash yet in Samsung's new Q line of televisions.
Not exact matches
Cushman, which has in recent years lacked the muscle to knock out dozens of
big institutional sales, sought to
make a
splash in that space while reportedly gearing up for an IPO that has not
yet been officially announced.
Haven't seen anyone
make a
big enough
splash yet to even qualify, never mind fullfilment of prophecies.
The Hype: Ben Wheatley
made a
big splash in the British independent scene with both Down Terrace (which I haven't
yet seen) and Kill List (a movie I kind of respect, but ultimately find kind of overrated).
The list is compiled by UK release dates, so with several of 2012's
big hitters
yet to arrive on these shores there was no chance for the likes of Cloud Atlas, Django Unchained, Hitchcock, Les Miserables, Lincoln, Wreck It - Ralph and Zero Dark Thirty to
make the cut (this year, at least), while Ang Lee's Life of Pi probably arrived just a little too late to
make a real
splash.
While Borders did manage to
make a
big splash a while back by bringing the basic, but functional, Kobo eReader to the public for just $ 150 at a time when popular eBook readers such as the Kindle hadn't managed to
make it below $ 250
yet, the prompt price matching on the parts of Amazon and B&N left it somewhat dead in the water, so to speak.
Castelli didn't open his own gallery — actually, a converted bedroom in his Upper East Side apartment — until 1957, and it was another year before he
made his
biggest splash, the first solo exhibition of a promising Southerner not
yet 30: Jasper Johns.
Public transportation has
yet to
make a
big splash (or even be established) in the Providence metropolitan area as it has in nearby cities of Boston and New York, so if you live in Rhode Island, you probably are a driver.
Huawei hasn't
yet made a
big splash in the U.S. (though that may be changing), and the Ideos S7 Tablet they're showing off at IFA 2010 doesn't quite look like it's going to change that.