Sentences with phrase «of tchotchkes»

A few knick - knacks are okay, as well, but don't put an entire collection of tchotchkes on display.

He is known for blending the theory of abstraction with the banality of tchotchkes and household items, amounting to acid - colored mashups that will soon take over the museum's second floor.

The piece included a tiny altarlike bench on the floor, holding various plastic and ceramic objects, inspired, the artist told me, by his mother's love of tchotchkes.

Oldenburg's contribution to Documenta V was The Mouse Museum (1977), an archive of tchotchkes and industrial samples sourced from the wholesalers of New York's East Village.

This was most vividly on display in «I M U U R 2,» his Hugo Boss Prize — winning show in 2013 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he presented a copious collection of tchotchkes assembled by the late Chinese - American artist Martin Wong, together with a handful of Wong's paintings.

There's also a plush full - service spa and outdoor pool (and fitness center), a wine shop and gourmet market, a gift boutique selling all manner of tchotchkes and sounvenirs, the swanky Gold Rush Steak House (with dancing and live music), and a more casual coffeehouse, the Copper Cafe.

She, her husband, and their dog share a too - small chelsea apartment that's stuffed to the gills with books, vintage clothes, and a whole lot of tchotchkes.

An abundance of tchotchkes makes a space feel busy and claustrophobic.

Outgoing NYC Councilman Dan Garodnick gave The Real Deal a tour of the tchotchkes on his office desk.

Though the plans for her move with boyfriend Adam (whose sister heard the news through the blog) were captured in our May Mag Club recap, we were surprised to find that she boxed up her vast number of tchotchkes and relegated them to the one not - so - huge cabinet in her new space.

I'm a major proponent of tchotchke - free gifting and one of my favorite gifts to give is soap; it's useful, one can never have enough of it, and it can look like little works of art.

Inside, the floors of tchotchke - lined cubicles teem with scruffy young gamers in jeans and hoodies — the default dot - com uniform.

Gone are the days of tchotchke gifts, socks and sweaters.

Not exact matches

Its shelves are stocked with so many stationery items, fashion accessories and home decor tchotchkes that general merchandise now constitutes nearly 40 % of all sales.

But with the sheer volume of gifts and promotional items that people receive from businesses increasing every year, how do you cut through the tchotchke clutter and choose a memorable gift that gets you noticed and reinforces your relationship?

In an outbuilding, one of Ouimette's colleagues is supervising set - up of a holiday pop - up shop stocked with donated ornaments and tchotchkes (Roses for Autism is trying to diversify its revenue streams).

With Shift My Gift, recipients can donate the money Aunt Gladys wanted to spend on them instead of having to find space for yet another useless tchotchke.

News reports shared photos of Trump's face next to Putin's on tchotchkes, billboards, and even a calendar that reads, «Christianity, Superpowerness, National Ethos!»

I don't like junk or tchotchkes and I suppose crafts feel like a waste of materials and money.

desk tchotchkes with a series of characters clutching their guts, paralyzed with laughter?

Move your themed oven mitts, candles, bowls of baubles, throw pillows and assorted sparkly tchotchkes around weekly, daily, HOURLY for more holiday fun.

If your kids are old enough, teach them why Cheap Plastic Tchotchkes (you may not want to say crap in front of your kids!)

They have a little bit of everything with a selection of greeting cards, t - shirts, artwork, and various little tchotchkes thrown into the mix.

Their adventures take them to visit various tchotchke shops in the city to visit the living kitsch therein to make inquiries, including a mildly amusing sequence involving an army of angry maneki - neko.

While this doesn't sound like a lot of work, the game has a truly stunning number of activities to perform and tchotchkes to find, so anyone hoping to see all of Hong Kong can expect to spend a significant chunk of time on the save / load screen.

Unfortunately, one such promise happens in front of a wish - granting devil tchotchke that Max receives mysteriously.

Lyn, who is physically impaired, has no friends or relatives — or anyone, really — but Iona, with whom she has created a childish safe haven of cat T - shirts, ceramic tchotchkes, and their pet bird Budgie, whom Lyn refers to as her «son.»

Design-wise, Heck's mummy - like sidekick is a standout — a PVC figure of which would be right at home among the tchotchkes at Urban Outfitters.

The person who tells you this is normally listing to port, lugging a heavy tote bag filled with promotional literature and tchotchkes from various sponsors of the conference.

A shot of a couple tchotchkes looked grainy, and a red character came across as more pink.

It felt like the Titanic with newly rearranged desk chairs on the Titanic, except they had put out a bunch of new tchotchkes for decor.

The Thai Craft Market at Amarin Plaza, located on the third floor of the mall, used to be a definite go - to market for Thai trinkets and tchotchkes.

A surreal mix of Western tchotchkes watch over the rooms like scarecrows — a bust of Iron Man, a replica of Michelangelo's David, and a glossy poster of Lebron James — a reminder of which culture the artists are meant to produce for.

(«Can't make it on time so we had to cancel instead of delay or offer a discount or a bonus tchotchke or some other small apology.»)

With the release of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception quickly approaching (and because I just received them last night at the Dallas AMC event), I thought it would be worth taking a closer look at them to find out if they're remarkable replicas or terrible tchotchkes.

At first glance, Arno can come off to some people as a «tchotchke douchebag» (hear Brent's first impressions of Unity on our podcast here).

Often Link carries multiple swords, shields, bows, arrows, shirts, boots, musical instruments, and any number of fetch quest tchotchkes, all while running for miles on end.

I still swear that a portmanteau is a piece of furniture, usually found in your great aunt's foyer for the display of bric - a-brac, knicknacks, tchotchkes, geegaws, and gimcracks.

In recent years, the building had languished as a home to office space and purveyors of fast food and patriotic tchotchkes.

These clocks have a multitude of meaning historically and culturally that I associate with my Wisconsin upbringing — hunting, birds, rifles, forests and tchotchkes on wood - paneled basement walls.»

One was that, in 1988, he unveiled his «Banality» series of sculptures — diving face - first into the aesthetic realms of kitsch tchotchkes and making unsettling monuments to subjects like Michael Jackson and his monkey and greeting - card pap (as in a appropriated image of a couple holding puppies on a park bench that led to a successful and lucrative lawsuit).

It will lead visitors on a path through an enchanted but menacing landscape featuring, among other things, 17 black - faced lawn jockeys on a crystal cloudscape 18 feet in the air; 20,000 whirling wind spinners; a «waterfall» of shimmering foil - like strips; a thousand or so intentionally garish ceramic tchotchkes; and several million beads, some of which will comprise shimmering mountains.

Highlights include American artist Jeff Koons Hon RA, whose figures for his 1980s «Banality» series were drawn from cheap tchotchkes; Frank Benson, whose Human Statue (Jessie)(2011) reproduces, using high - end digital technology, a stunning simulacrum of dancer and musician Jessie Gold; and newly elected Academician Rebecca Warren, known for her plaster figures filtered through other artists from Giacometti to cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Like the paintings, the sculptures fuse together different traditions and techniques, ranging from 17th Century French Chinoiserie to mass - produced kitsch tchotchkes to the molten forms of Peter Voulkos's sculptures.

The bar itself is made from concrete brezeblocks and contains tins labeled «survival ration crackers,» assorted tchotchkes, copies of the Journal of Civilian Defense, VHS cassettes (including the movie Earthquake), tools, board games, and bottles of Canadian Club, Jaegermeister, and other liquors popular in «80s suburbia.

In his paintings fine art commingles with overpowering wallpaper, gaudy lampshades, and tchotchkes,» said Miranda Lash, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Like the paintings, the sculptures fuse together different traditions and techniques, ranging from 17th - century French Chinoiserie to mass - produced kitsch tchotchkes to the molten forms of Peter Voulkos's sculptures.

A white plastic rat figure is hidden behind the tchotchkes, most of them also white.

Regular customers and employees offer elements of their personal lives, boasting wallet - size family photos, posters of an iconographic athletes or pop stars, and a collection of idiosyncratic tchotchkes that pile up over time.

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