Sentences with phrase «offer wry»

Opening December 6 at the Rubell Family Collection, Allison Zuckerman's fusions of historical tropes and digital art offer wry cultural critiques.
Often, their skin reflects the ambient chroma of the background, glowing with acidic orange or olive green while street signs and clothing logos offer wry internal commentary.
The gallery is also pleased to present three new sculptural Artforum ads, 35» x 35» watercolor and acrylic works on paper mounted on aluminum, that offer a wry commentary on the recent revelations of alleged sexual harassment by former publish Knight Landesmann at that magazine.
Often, their skin reflects the ambient chroma of the background, glowing with acidic oranges or olive green while street signs and clothing logos offer wry internal commentary.
Growth curves, derived from corporate culture, echoed in the forms of the worms and cables, offer a wry comment on humanity's drive towards advancement in the name of profit.
Known for his immersive cake - like installations, Scott Hove's latest makings offer wry commentary upon the demise of today's political, economic, and ecological landscapes in «Last...
Chadha and co-screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges offer a wry, low - key feature - length commentary with some fairly interesting / entertaining recollections, including the thinking behind the somewhat ballsy use of a corporeal David Beckham in the epilogue, the unblinking national reaction to the Sikh rituals depicted in the film, and Chadha's desire to exploit her male cast members by getting their shirts off as often as possible.
He even offers a wry glimpse into the future to conclude this fantastically inventive, spirited, astute, and delectable update of One Thousand and One Nights.
Together with the works on paper is a hand - sewn soft sculpture of two intertwined snakes - a male and a female - decadently dressed, offering a wry statement on the privileged social systems media imagery exploits.
Gursky offers a wry wink at his abstract expressionist forebears in Review (2015), a «fictional photograph» placing Germany's four most recent chancellors in front of a Barnett Newman zip painting.
Nearby is the cartoony Malevich Looks Down on Pollock, a ballpoint - pen sketch of a plain square above a bunch of squiggles on the floor beneath it that offers a wry comment about Polke's preference for Constructivism over Abstract Expressionism.

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Popular Christian literary culture offers an interesting insistence here with its wry, ironical, ambiguous association through juxtaposition.
Tuesday then delivered the Canadians a wry gamekeeper turned poacher moment with revelations by the ACCC that CBH had offered court - enforceable undertakings that aim to promote contestability in WA's grains logistics business.
He offered this with a wry wink / nod: «I like our guys and everything we've got on defense.
«Love bombing entails spending a period of time alone with your child, offering them unlimited love and control,» says James, whose previous works include How Not to — Them Up, a wry inversion of Philip Larkin's bittersweet observations on parenting.
At the start of our conversation, he offers me a slightly wry assurance: «I've never been in any Trotskyist organisations, or far left groups.
Omar Khayyam, and Ferdowsi — appear to him and offer their advice and wry observations.
Jim Broadbent is a nice addition to the pantheon of terrific actors in the series as the professor of potions, Horace Slughorn, offering the tight mix of bumbling charm and wry whimsy in keeping with the nature of the series as a whole.
Again, Monsters, Inc. not a movie that has a lot to offer an adult audience because the script does not contain an abundance of wry, wink - wink jokes that will go over children's heads.
Special Treatment (Unrated) Wry comedy illustrating the intriguing parallels between the nature of the services a miserably - married shrink (Bouli Lanners) and a jaded call girl (Isabelle Huppert) offer their clients.
In an article in Fortune magazine last year, Warren Buffett has this to say about bonds: Today, a wry comment that Wall Streeter Shelby Cullom Davis made long ago seems apt: «Bonds promoted as offering risk - free returns are now priced to deliver return - free risk.»
Review: Atlanta Contemporary offers a fresh, wry response to critique with Betbeze and Harrison
Loren Munk is a painter whose alter ego, James Kalm, has gained a wide Internet following for wry video postings of gallery and museum exhibitions that offer detailed examinations of the artworks on display along with an occasional on - the - fly interview with the artist or run - in with security personnel.
In the Center a large sculpture by Mark Handforth offers directions to nowhere, a wry political comment.
This exciting avenue for future development offers possibilities for discovering Connecticut artists overlooked by museums, such as the wry and witty Pop art commentaries of William Kent.
The «only straw offered», to use Bassett's wry phrase, is the statement that «black air» is highly combustible, enormous masses of it being instantly consumed by the smallest flame, even an electrical luminance isolated in a vacuum.
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